Born in a small town in Ohio, Donald Hoobler volunteered in the Airborne in 1942.

He joined the same year the Easy Company at Camp Toccoa, Georgie.

In Band of Brothers, he tries to find a German Luger pistol, like all other Allied soldiers during the conflict in Europe and in particular Donald Malarkey, and gets one in the Bois Jacques, after having killed a German.

But watching his new acquisition, he accidentally takes a bullet in the leg, the gun being loaded. The shot cut the femoral artery of Corporal Hoobler who died a few minutes later, before "Doc Roe" arrived.
This took place on January 3rd, 1945.