1LT Charles Hardin Talbot Jr

1LT Charles Hardin Talbot Jr was born 5 Aug 1914 in Denver, Colorado. He was the oldest child of Charles Hardin and Hazel Marie (Smith) Talbot. His father was a lifetime attorney who worked for several corporations. The senior Charles was called to serve in the army during the first World War. His parents divorced about 1920 and his father remarried in 1921. Charles lived with his mother and step-father Samuel Evans Arscott, a Denver optometrist. A half-sister was born in 1926. The family lived at 780 Elizabeth Street in Denver in a home valued at $9000 in 1930. Charles would soon be out on his own. Having graduated high school he then attended the University of Denver before moving to Los Angeles, California where he worked as an insurance examiner for Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and made a good living reporting a 1939 income of $2000. He was living at 1412½ North Havenhurst Drive with a roommate and then at 351 South Alexandria Street. 

Drafted in May 1941, it is likely that he was quickly identified as officer material and sent to officer candidate school, probably at Fort Benning, Georgia after completing his initial military training. Sent to England he was assigned to the regimental headquarters of the 116th Infantry. He would have trained with the unit for the amphibious assault as part of the liberation of France and landed with the unit on 6 Jun 1944. He continued to serve with the unit until killed in action on 18 Jun 1944.

1LT Talbot is buried in the Normandy American Cemetery.

Charles' father served as a CPT commanding L Company 157th Infantry, 40th Division in France during WW1.