Hart Goodloe

Hart Goodloe (January 31, 1875 - March 21, 1954) was a surgeon in the First World War who served at Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Hart Goodloe was born in Danville, Kentucky in 1875. On August 13, 1917 he enlisted in the U.S. Army at age 42. He was commissioned to the rank of major and was a surgeon in the army. By 1918 he was sent over to France and saw action at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He was discharged from service on March 18, 1919, and resided in St. Louis, Missouri. His war documents were destroyed in a fire at the St. Louis archives. He died at Veterans Hospital, Biloxi, Mississippi, on March 21, 1954 at age 79.

In 2007 a fictional novel titled "Goodloe - Blood Stains the Fury of the Coming Storm" by Patrick Bauer was published based on the life of Hart Goodloe. ISBN 978-1-4257-8225-2 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4257-8216-0 (softcover) available November 2007.

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* [http://www.gwpda.org/photos/goodloe.htm Another photograph of Goodloe]