PURPLE HEART
S-Sgt. Harold A. Carpenter has been awarded the Purple Heart decoration. He has been serving in Italy for several months. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Carpenter of near Story City.
Source: Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, IA - Apr. 20, 1944
NOTES:
Harold Arthur Carpenter was born Dec. 23, 1917 to Arthur and Hanna Millang Carpenter. He died Sept. 16, 1988 and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Story City, IA.
Sources: ancestry.com & WWII Memorial Honoree
