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Earl Preston Hawkins

NAME:
Earl Preston Hawkins		 NICKNAME:
—		 SERVICE NUMBER:
399634
HOME OF RECORD:
1220 Fulton Avenue, Tarrant, AL
 NEXT OF KIN:
Mother, Mrs. Lucy Hawkins
DATE OF BIRTH:
1/25/1921		 SERVICE DATES:
6/1/1942 – 1945 (WWII)
1951 – 1953 (Korea)		 DATE OF DEATH:
4/19/2016
CAMPAIGN UNIT MOS RATE RESULT
Roi-Namur HQ/1/24 835 Sergeant Rear Echelon
Saipan HQ/1/24 835 Sergeant Rear Echelon
Tinian HQ/1/24 835 Sergeant Rear Echelon
Iwo Jima HQ/1/24 821 Sergeant Rear Echelon
INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS:
—

 LAST KNOWN RANK:
Staff Sergeant (WWII)
Technical Sergeant (Korea)
Earl Hawkins, around 1943. Initially angered that he was "one of the first in and among the last out of the battalion without being in combat," he later concluded "it was God's blessing that [I] did not have to kill or be killed."

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