Harold Warp
Surnames: KRAMER, PUCKETT
Source: Adams County Times Thursday October 12, 1950 Page 1
Parents of Harold Warp Receive News of His Death in Korea
Adams County lost another boy on the Altar of Freedom, when Harold Warp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Almer Warp, of Arkdale, was killed in the Korean conflict
on September 24. He was in the 25th Infantry Division in the big push to get
the Communistic Koreans back into their own territory.
His parents received the sad telegram on Sunday morning notifying them of the
death of their son.
Harold was born on September 18, 1923 and was only 6 days past his 27th birthday. He grew up in Adams County, and when only 19, he heard his country's call in the second World War and on February 11, 1943, he offered his services to the United States Navy and was accepted. For over four years and nine months he was in the midst of some of the toughest fighting in the war.
It was on January 6, 1945, he was assigned to the USS Alan M. Sumner, on which he stayed until his discharge in 1947. Many crossing of the Pacific were made and always the ship was sent into the hard fighting areas. Once the ship was struck by a Jap suicide plane and so badly damaged that many sailors were killed and many were wounded. In this conflict, Harold was badly
wounded in the leg.
Altho the ship was badly damaged, the men fixed it up so that it limped into Pearl Harbor. There it was repaired enough so that it was sent on many more
missions. However, it was one of the first ships put in moth balls after the war, and Harold was on her until the last.
After his discharge, he worked in Adams County for a time and then enlisted in the Army in September, 1948. He was a physical instructor at Fort Knox. While there he met Miss Jean Puckett of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and they were married on October 8, 1949.
On July 21, 1950 he was notified that he could spend a week with his family and then must be in Fort Lewis, Washington by July 28.
Since that time, a baby daughter has been born to the couple, Bonita Lynn on August 26, whom the father had never seen.
From Fort Lewis, he was flown to Japan where he remained until August 17, when he left for Korea.
Besides his wife and infant daughter, he leaves his sorrowing parents and six brothers and two sisters: Arden of Westfield; Sgt. Orlando, stationed at Curtis Wright Field, Milwaukee; William of Coloma; Mrs. Irma Kramer of Dellwood; Eilef, who has had his physical and is awaiting his call in the Army, Alma, Sam and Almer Jr. at home.
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