Notes for: Albert Norman Bodine
From: Mortelette Remy [Remy.Mortelette at browning-int.com]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010
Subject: Capt. Albert N. Bodine
Dear Sir,
My name is Rémy Mortelette. I'm a young french man of 25 years old, expatriat in Belgium. I'm member of the 83rd Infantry Division Association in USA and the Webmaster of the Website: www.83rd-thunderbolt-division-database.tk
For my Website, I realize "identitiy files" for all the soldiers of division dead and missing during the conflict.
Currently, I realize the file of the Captain Albert N. Bodine who served in the 330th Infantry Regiment. I think that he was commander of the A Company of the regiment. I search informations concerning the Capt Bodine to complete this file. Can you help me???
Herewith the file which I realized.
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Best regards,
Mr Mortelette Rémy
Here is the file Mortelette Rémy sent:
Last name: Bodine
First and middle name: Albert Norman
Army Serial Number: O-336858
Rank: Captain
Date of birth: September 2, 1914
Place of birth: Hutting, Arkansas, USA
Place of residence: Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Date of enlistment: Unknown
Place of enlistment: Unknown
Division: 83rd Infantry Division
Regiment: 330th Infantry Regiment
Battalion: Unknown
Company: Unknown
Date of death: July 5, 1944
Place of death: Normandy, France
Place of burial: Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Site grave: Plot A, Row 19, Grave 21
Awards: Purple Heart
From: Mortelette Remy [Remy.Mortelette at browning-int.com]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010
Subject: RE: Capt. Albert N. Bodine
Dear Mr Bodine,
Thank you very much for these information!!! If you like, you can ask the Individual Personnel Deceased File from US Army. It's a very interesting document!!! I've a copy of the IDPF of the SSGT Elmer Cyphers of which I adopted his grave (soldier burind in the Henri-Chapelle Military Cemetery in Belgium) and that enabled me to discover many things about him.
Write at this address and after a few months, you will obtain this file.:
U.S. Army Human Resources Command
ATTN: AHRC-PAO (FOIA), Rm 7S65
200 Stovall Street
Alexandria, VA 22331-0400
Best regards,
Mr Mortelette Rémy
From Ronny Bodine:
From City of Richmond, Virginia Marriage Records:
Albert Norman Bodine, 24, single, refrigerator engineer, born in Huddig, Ark., son of Leslie Albert Bodine & Bessie Norman AND Evelyn Margaret Dixon, 25, single, born Westernport, Md, dau. of Thomas Albert Dixon & Mary Brown, were married 9 Nov 1938 in Richmond, by J. J. Rives, Methodist Minister.
Captain Albert Bodine, a 1935 graduate of Virginia Technical Institute, had enlisted in the U.S. Army from Keyser, Mineral County, West Virginia and was serving with the 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Division, 1st U.S. Army when he was killed in action near Normandy. He was first buried in a temporary cemetery at St. Laurent, France which subsequently became the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. A memorial grave marker was placed in Lakewood Cemetery, Bowling Green where his wife was also buried. The deaths of Albert Bodine was reported in the Bowling Green "Caroline Progress" of 10 and 31 Aug 1944.
Newspaper Obituary, Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, Va.) of Wednesday, 5 Jan 1972.
BODINE. Died Tuesday, January 4, 1972, Mrs. Evelyn Dixon Bodine of 4200 W. Grace St., widow of Albert Bodine. She is survived by 1 daughter, Mrs. Earl W. Taylor of Silver Springs, Md., and 1 grandson, 2 sisters-in-law, Mrs. William L. Sisson and Mrs. David E. Zimmerman, both of Richmond. The remains rest at the Joseph W. Bliley Funeral Home, 3rd and Marshall where services will be held Thursday at 11:00 A.M. with interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Bowling Green, Va. Mrs. Bodine was auditor for the State Milk Commission.