First Korean War Death.

KUHLMAN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 5/18/2007 at 15:17:06

KUHLMAN DIES OF WOUNDS
Injuries prove fatal to local serviceman in Tokyo hospital.
Maquoketan First Korean War Death In Jackson County.
PFC William F. Kuhlman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Kuhlman of Maquoketa, wounded in action in Korea on Mar. 17, died of his wounds Tuesday in an Army hospital in Tokyo, Japan, the war department notified his parents Thursday.
The Maquoketa serviceman, the first from Jackson County to die in the Korean War, sustained injuries to the head and face caused by mortar fire when his position was attacked by enemy forces, officials told the serviceman's parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Kuhlman were advised in Thursday's telegram that further details as to PFC Kuhlman's death and arrangements for return of the body will be forthcoming.
A rifleman in the Ninth Infantry Regiment's Company L, PFC Kuhlman had been serving in Korea since last August. He graduated the day before he was wounded, from a non-commissioned officers' school. PFC Kuhlman enlisted in the regular army in April of 1952. He received his basic training at Ft. Riley, Kansas. (Jackson Sentinnel, April 3, 1953.)