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Lieut Jack Henry Srout

Birth	:	2 Oct 1917
Death	:	21 Jun 1944
Burial	:	Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Jefferson County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.0068000, -91.9805000
Inscription	:	JACK H SROUT IOWA 2D LIEUTENANT 751 AAF BOMB SQ WORLD WAR II OCT 2 1917 - JUNE 21 1944
Description	:	Members of the crew aboard 42-31656 were: 2LT Hershel L. Wilson, Pilot, KIA LT Bailey J. Gaudinier, Copilot, POW LT Chester D. Perkins, Navigator, KIA LT Jack Srout, Bombardier, KIA SGT Joseph Frank Schankin, Engineer, POW SGT Frank J. Garzia, Radio Operator, KIA SGT Francis Xavier Heekin, Left Waist Gunner, POW SGT Edward L. Attleton, Ball Turrett Gunner, KIA SGT George N. Vassilopoulos, Tail Gunner, POW Last Rites Friday For Lieut. Srout Fairfield - Military rites will be held at the Weston Behner funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday for Second Lieutenant Jack H. Srout, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Srout, of near Fairfield, who was... Read More	Members of the crew aboard 42-31656 were: 2LT Hershel L. Wilson, Pilot, KIA LT Bailey J. Gaudinier, Copilot, POW LT Chester D. Perkins, Navigator, KIA LT Jack Srout, Bombardier, KIA SGT Joseph Frank Schankin, Engineer, POW SGT Frank J. Garzia, Radio Operator, KIA SGT Francis Xavier Heekin, Left Waist Gunner, POW SGT Edward L. Attleton, Ball Turrett Gunner, KIA SGT George N. Vassilopoulos, Tail Gunner, POW Last Rites Friday For Lieut. Srout Fairfield - Military rites will be held at the Weston Behner funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday for Second Lieutenant Jack H. Srout, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Srout, of near Fairfield, who was killed while on a mission over Germany on June 21, 1944. Srout was a bombardier. Dr. Edward A. Piper, pastor of First Lutheran church and chaplain of the local American Legion post, will officiate, assisted by Rev. M. C. Campbell, pastor of the local Church of the Nazarene. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn cemetery. Srout was graduated from Fairfield high school and entered the army air corps in June, 1942. On Christmas day of that same year, he received his commission at Victorville army air field, Victorville, Calif. A short time later he was sent to Salt Lake City, Utah, for re-assignment, and shortly afterwards was sent to England. Before going overseas he was married to Beverly Litton, of the Fairfield community. A son was born to them, which Srout never got to see. The child died at the age of 4 years, and the mother has since remarried. In addition to the parents, Srout is survived by a brother, Joe Srout, Jr., Fairfield, and a sister, Frances Srout, at home. (Hawk-Eye Gazette, Burlington, IA, Wednesday, May 25, 1949, p. 21, Col. 2) "The Fairfield Ledger" Monday, February 27, 2012 Front Page and Page 7 Wife received husband's medals 68 years later by Brooks Taylor Golden Triangle News Service MOUNT PLEASANT (GTNS) -- 2nd Lt. Jack SROUT was returned to American soil decades ago. His medals, including a Purple Heart, arrived Feb. 10, 2012, exactly 68 years to the day after he married Bev LITTON -- the girl he'd swept off her feet at Fairfield High School. For his former wife it provided a bit of closure, although Mount Pleasant's Bev HODSON quickly added that nothing really ensures closure. "They say there is closure, but there isn't. I still think of him every day." She also things (sic - thinks) of her son Jackie she had with SROUT. In less than two years, HODSON suffered through two tragedies. Her husband Jack was killed on a bombing mission in Germany June 21, 1944, just over four months after she married him. They had a son Jackie, who was killed in an automobile accident in Mount Pleasant Jan. 21, 1945 (sic - Jackie was born Jan. 21, 1945, and died April 3, 1946). "He [Jackie] was 1 year, 2 months and 13 days old," HODSON quickly says. "People ask me how I remember the exact age [of Jackie]. Well, it is easy, it never goes away." HODSON didn't think about her late husband's medals until recently. That's because she married Jack HODSON April 2, 1946, and has had a good life following the early double dose of tragedy. "I have had a very good life' she said from her Sunny Brook apartment. "Both of my husbands were wonderful men [Jack HODSON died Sept. 28, 1999, and the couple was married for nearly 54 years]. They were kind, good men and easy to live with. I still miss them and all the little things. There are a lot of good memories." HODSON met SROUT while in high school at Fairfield. "He just swept me off my feed as did Jack HODSON." SROUT was the bombardier on one of 935 bombers dispatched June 21, 1944, to bomb motor industry targets in Berlin, Germany. Nineteen bombers were lost on the mission, known as "Frantic." The planes were to bomb Berlin and then land at a Russian airfield. According to a report, SROUT's plane went over the target and dropped the bombs. As the plane was pulling away, flack (sic - flak) hit it. Two engines were knocked out along with all the radios and the hydraulic system. The plane was at 27,000 feet and because no fires had broken out, it was decided to fly it to the Russian airfield. Shortly later, both engines were on fire -- a fire that could not be distinguished (sic). Since the plane was still in the Berlin area, the pilot didn't want to bail out the crew over hostile territory, The plane still had 900 ballons of gasoline left and descended to 20,000 feet. When the plane left the Berlin region, the pilot started ordering the crew out. But not all the crew, including SROUT had bailed, before the plane blew up. Five members of the nine-member crew died. HODSON learned her husband was missing in action July 6, 1944, and received word of his death July 21, 1944. He is buried in Fairfield. (sic - in Memorial Lawn Cemetery with son Jackie) Due to her hapiness and her marriage to HODSON, who was a car salesman and co-owner of the former Hodson-McKim Motors in Mount Pleasant, she didn't think about the possibility of SROUT's medals until she was doing some genealogy recently. "I never received his death certificate nor his medals," she said. "I contacted Rick Van Winkle [head of the Henry County Veterans Affairs Office], and he was interested and would see if he had any medals coming. Rick was such a big help on this." The process took about three months and earlier this month, she received the medals -- the Purple Heart, an European-African Middle Eastern Campaign medal; the World War II Victory Medal; and a Honorable Service Lapel button. "It was very hard losing my husband and son so close together, but Jack HODSON was very patient," she concluded. "I think it was very nice that Jack [SROUT] was remembered through the medals."

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Lieut Jack Henry Srout's memorial is located at: Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Jefferson County, USA.
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Lieut Jack Henry Srout death on 21 Jun 1944 in
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Latitude: 41.0068000
Longitude: -91.9805000

Family Members:

Parent

Joseph Edward Srout Sr.

(1879 - 1957)

Jessie Mabel Norvell Srout

(1880 - 1951)

Siblings

Frances M Srout

(1910 - 1974)

John Roger Srout

(1911 - 1941)

Joseph Edward Srout Jr.

(1914 - 1978)

Children

Jackie Srout

(1945 - 1946)

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Coordinate: 40.9444008, -91.9049988

16. Wheeler Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.0797000, -91.9185500

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Coordinate: 41.0286410, -92.0948960

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Coordinate: 40.9837160, -92.0964340

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Coordinate: 40.9524000, -91.8728000

24. Gantz Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.0464000, -92.1017000