Le Journal du Mémorial

"Ne demandons pas à Dieu pourquoi de tels hommes devaient mourir à la guerre... Laissez-nous plutôt remercier Dieu que de tels hommes aient vécus..."
Général George S. Patton

Frederick Walter Hopping 


Born February, 8 1907 at Hanover, Morris, New Jersey, USA
Died Juin, 6 1944 à Omaha Beach, Normandy, France
Buried in Normandy American Cimetery of Colleville-sur-Mer
 (Plot I, Row n°3, Grave n°2)
Religion : Protestant
Civilian occupation:
 - Advertising manager for the Providence, R.I. plant of the
   United States Rubber Company (Uniroyal)
 - Advertising executive for Birdseye Frosted Foods

Awards : Purple Heart

Service#: 32301157
Rank : Tec5 (Technician Fifth)
Status : KIA (Killed In Action)



Father : David Augustus Hopping (1867 – 1915)
Mother : Emmie E. Schoeneck (1870 – 1942)
Brothers and sister:
    David Stiles Hopping (1901 – 1961)
    Leona Schoeneck Hopping (1898 – 1966)
    John (1912 - )


29th Div. Inf.
The Blue and Grey


116th Infantry regiment
He was Corporal Technician 5 (TEC5) in the Headquarters Company, 116th Infantry regiment, 1st battalion from the 29th Infantry
Divisiond
(The Blue and Grey)
(Hq. Co., 116th, 1st Bn, 29th Div. Inf.)

Enlisted : May, 9 1942 at Newark, New-Jersey

Arrival in England : October 42 (by the Queen Mary)

Campaigns :
   - Operation Overlord, landing in Normandy (Operation Neptune)

Killed in action, June, 6 1944, on Omaha Beach, during the initial assault waves of landing.
Arrival time : H+40
Sector : Dog Green (WN71-72)
Coming from: HMS Empire Javelin by LCA (Landing Craft Assault)
Load place : Weymouth - Portland (Isle of) 

Personal effects found on body and sent to his family
  - 1 Picture Folder
  - 1 Wallet picture
  - 24,21$ (in French money : 1200 frs)

For the "little" story:
  - "Adopted" since 2007
  - He enlisted two months after the death of his mother
  - The cemetery area is a perpetual concession made ​​by France to USA. It overlooks Omaha
     Beach

Documents
Memorial in cemetery of the "First Presbyterian Church"
Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
Individual Deceased
Personnel File
I.D.P.F
Personnal objects
I.D.P.F
Letter to family
I.D.P.F
Battle casualty report
I.D.P.F
Letter to family
I.D.P.F
Letter to family
   

Location
Omaha Beach, Normandy American Cemetery
Colleville-sur-Mer

American Cemetery
Plot I, Row n°3
Grave of
Frederick W. Hopping  
Omaha Beach
Today
     
     
Grave of
Frederick W. Hopping
June 2012
Grave of
Frederick W. Hopping
June 2012
Omaha Beach
June 2012 
     
Sanded letters
(from ABMC)
ABMC Normandy
Virtual 360 
 
   

Omaha Beach
Dog Green sector (Vierville sur Mer)
Defenses plan
Omaha Beach - Detals
Bigot plan - Omaha West
   
Dog Green June 1944 SS Empire Javelin
     
Dog Green September 2021
     
 

 

Informations requests:
  I searched everywhere in USA, to the service history of the 29th Infantry Division, also, at
  Hannover, at Union, at Neward (where he lived), in different departments of defense
  and I even wrote to the White House, who answered to me by giving some government
  addresses. I wrote, also, to the Human Resources of the U.S. forces, in Alexandria, VA, who
  sent me his personal file of death. Many military informations were destroyed by fire in 1973
  that ravaged the "National Personnel Record Center" in St. Louis, Missouri and destroyed
  80% of cases of soldiers from 1912 to 1959.
  The civil information are also almost impossible to find

Eric Triau