Robert Louis Hempstead
M Company, the heavy weapons company of the 3rd Battalion. Left: Lt. Hempstead about 1943 On February 8, 1943, Hempstead’s father died. That August, Hempstead married Mrs. Ramona Louise LaFlore Baker in New Orleans, Louisiana. Louise, a native of Oklahoma, was divorced and the mother of a young son, Ronnie Baker. Louise and Ronnie moved to Camp