Glenn Hoffman graduated from high school in 1939 after 4 years at Highland Park High School, Highland Park, Illinois. He worked for awhile as a stableman in a riding stable. He was, then, employed at the Chicago Union Station in the Chicago office of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad.



He enlisted in the the U.S. Army Air Corps April 1942 and took his basic training in Santa Ana, California, earning his Bombardier Wings at Roswell, New Mexico, on 5 March 1943 and his Navigator Wings on 5 July 1943, at San Marcos, Texas. He took combat crew training at Denver, Colorado, and joined Lt. Wayne Fox's crew at the end of October, 1943, in Lincoln, Nebraska, before shipping over to England the following month. Nov, 43.



Glenn was assigned to the 8th Air Force, 2nd Division, the 446th Bomb Group, in the 705th Bomb Squadron, based at Station 125, at Bungay, England.



As an experienced and capable navigator, Lt. Hoffamn was flying on his 30th mission as Lead Navigator on board the B-24H, 42-100315, Quivering Box, on the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich, Germany. His Liberator was hit by flak on the return from the mission, wounding him in the back.



The plane exploded in mid air before he could get out, and he went down with the ship, killed in action (KIA). He had written to his parents on July 20 that he was about to complete his 30th and final mission before returning home, and added “Tomorrow I will write you the glad news”. But, of course, he never did.