"James Floyd Klock, 39 years of age, was born on September 28, 1905 in Washtenaw County, Michigan. He earned his medical degree at the University of Michigan in 1931- just 25 years after his father- and joined the Army Reserve Corps the following year as a first lieutenant.

He supervised Civilian Conservation Camps and a number of Indian reservation hospitals and in 1942 was called to service as a Medical Corps Captain. He was shipped overseas in 1944, assigned to a glider infantry unit. Maj. Klock was one of the 33 service members who were killed on site when a Horsa glider crashed on tookoff on December 12, 1944 at Greenham Common Airbase, England. He is now buried in the Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA."