Hubert Daniel Whitfield

Conflicts & Campaigns

• Rhineland
• European Theater of Operations, March 2, 1945 - June 16, 1945
• Pacific Theater of Operations, September 24, 1945 - January 18, 1946

Significant Duty Stations

• Inducted; Fort McPherson, Georgia. Discharged; Fort McPherson, Georgia.
• Basic Training; Camp Swift, Texas. Maneuvers; Camp Polk, Louisiana. Advanced Infantry Training; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
• 97th Infantry Division, 922nd Field Artillery Battalion, Headquarters Battery.
• Amphibious Training; Camp San Luis Obispo, Camp Callan, Coronado Strand, San Clemente Island, San Nicolas Island and Camp Pendleton, California.

Decorations & Citations

• European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two bronze stars
• American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; Good Conduct Medal
• World War II Victory Medal; Drivers and Mechanic Badge with Bar

Notes

US Army service number 34-760-255. Born; Calvary, Grady County, Georgia. Graduate Cairo High School Class of 1942. With Hubert assigned to the 97th Infantry Division were Sergeant First Class Joseph Horry Rawls And Private First Class Raymond Miller both from Grady County. The 97th Division is credited with "The Last Shot of the European War". PFC Domenic Mozzetta of Company B, 387 Infantry Regiment, 97th Infantry Division fired at a German sniper near Klenovice, Czechoslovakia, shortly before midnight May 7, 1945. (Monument dedicated October 12, 2000, Fort Benning, Georgia). The 97th Infantry Division was one of only 2 divisions to serve in both the European and the Pacific Theaters of war. Burial; Southlawn Memorial Park, Prince George County, Virginia.