Jadie Clenton
Hodge
was born on September 6, 1925 and was from
Mayodan, North Carolina. Not much is known about
him. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on 6 November
1943 at Camp Croft, South Carolina and
volunteered for the Paratroopers. After
training at Fort Benning, he was assigned to B
Company, 505th Parachute Infantry
Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division.
He
participated in Operation Market Garden, the
airborne landings in The Netherlands, which
aimed to capture the bridges over the Waal and
Rhine rivers. This would open up the possibility
of thrusting north over the Rhine and then into
Germany, bypassing the feared
Siegfried line.
After the landings and
conquering the bridge, British troops would come
from the Belgian/Dutch border and thrust north,
over the bridges captured by the 101st and 82nd
Airborne Divisions towards Arnhem, where the
British 1st Airborne Division was tasked with
the capture of the bridge over the Rhine.
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Company B
505th Parachute Infantry
Regiment
82nd Airborne Division
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Jadie was
killed in action on 20 September 1944, in the
Mook area. He was initially buried in the
Temporary American War Cemetery at Molenhoek,
Holland on 21 September 1944. The circumstances
of his death are not known. In the late 1940's
his remains were reinterred at Shelton Cemetery
Cemetery, Sandy Ridge, North Carolina.
(Photo courtesy
of Idell Joyce, via Mr. Aart van Uden)
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(Photo courtesy
of Idell Joyce, via Mr. Aart van Uden)
Shelton Cemetery, Sandy
Ridge, North Carolina
All Casualties
of the 505th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division
killed in Holland or buried at Margraten
Acknowledgements:
Mr. Aart van Uden
NARA AAD
Norbert de Groot, Als Sterren Aan De
Hemel, De Gooise Uitgeverij, Weesp 1977
Directions to
Golden Shelton Cemetery, Sandy Ridge, North
Carolina
Posted 14
August
2008
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and/or are buried in The Netherlands during
World War II.
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