This photograph of Corporal Harry Kimmel appeared in the July 31, 1942 edition of the West Schuylkill Press-Herald in Tremont, Pennsylvania.
The image of the 22-year-old World War II soldier from nearby Donaldson was published with this caption:
Donaldson Soldier
Harry Kimmel… enlisted January 13, 1941 in the Pine Grove National Guards. He was in the war maneuvers in the Carolinas, following which he was transferred to a company of Dump Truck Engineers located at Louisiana.
On May 19, 1942 he left the states for an undisclosed location. He has two brothers and five sisters at home.
Kimmel returned home to the United States in 1945, leaving the US Army with the rank of sergeant. He returned to Schuylkill County after years of service on the other side of the world – in Southeastern Asia where he participated in the fighting taking place in China, Burma, India, and the environs.
Kimmel passed away in Tower City in 1983 at the age of 63. He was buried at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery in Lebanon County.
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