Draft Board ….. The following (registrants were) placed in Class 2C(agriculture) …; Gerrit Robert Hulstein, Orange City; …
Source: Sioux County Capital March 4, 1943, p 1
Minutes of Draft Board Class 1-A Subject to call ….. Gerrit Robert Hulstein, O.C. …..
Source: Sioux County Capital Mar. 25, 1943, p 4
Sioux Center ….. Among the Sioux Center boys who left on Tuesday to take their army examinations were Milton Van Muyden, Gerrit Robert Hulstein, Elmer Vander Ploeg, Arthur Schuiteman and John De Zeeuw. …..
Source: Sioux County Capital Oct. 14, 1943, p 6
Men Inducted From Draft Call
The following named men were inducted into the Armed Services on October 13th: ….. Gerrit Robert Hulstein, O. C. …..
Source: Sioux County Capital Oct. 21, 1943, p 1
Draft Board Minutes Minutes of Oct. 19, 1943 Prev. New Class Class ….. 11,765 Gerrit R. Hulstein 1-A 1-C Ind …..
Source: Sioux County Capital Oct. 28, 1943, p 1
The Hulstein relatives held a farewell family gathering for Gerrit Robert Hulstein at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Hulstein on Wednesday evening.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 28, 1943, p 7
Pvt. Gerrit R. Hulstein 37486729 Btry. B. 52 F. A. Tng. Bn. Camp Roberts, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 25, 1943, p 12
On Sunday afternoon Miss Louise Franken talked to Pvt. Gerrit Robert Hulstein by telephone. Gerrit is stationed at Camp Roberts, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 6, 1944, p 2
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hulstein and children Rodney and Arthea and Miss Louise Franken drove to Sioux City early Friday morning to meet Pvt. Gerrit Robert Hulstein, who came home from Camp Roberts, Calif. to spend a 9-day visit with his family and friends here. He has a 16-day delay enroute to a new camp and will leave here again on Sunday afternoon.
Source: Sioux County Index Mar. 23, 1944, p 7
Pvt. Gerrit R. Hulstein has been transferred from Camp Roberts, Calif. to Fort Ord, Calif. and has this new address: Pvt. Gerrit R. Hulstein 37486729 Co. M. 2nd Regt. A.G.F. Repl. Depot No. 2 Fort Ord, California
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 20, 1944, p 2
Pvt. Gerrit Robert Hulstein has this new address: Pvt. Gerrit Robert Hulstein Co. H. 8th Bn. 3rd Repl. Regt. A.G.F. Repl. Depot No. 2 Fort Ord, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 27, 1944, p 2
Pvt. Gerrit Robert Hulstein, son of Henry Hulstein has an outgoing address and his parents believe he has already left the states, or will leave any day. Call the News or his parents for his address.
Source: Sioux Center News May 18, 1944, p 8
In New Guinea (photo)
PVT. GERRIT ROBERT HULSTEIN
Pvt. Gerrit Robert Hulstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Hulstein entered the service November 3, 1943. He received his basic training at Camp Roberts, Calif. He has had one furlough in March. Gerrit Robert is in the Field Artillery and at present is stationed in New Guinea. Call us for his address, as he has just moved to a new location in New Guinea.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 7, 1944, p 1
(excerpt from article about Pvt. Clarence Middle) Clarence … went overseas last May and is now somewhere in the South Pacific, in the Field Artillery. Incidentally he is in the outfit of which Gerrit Robert Hulstein is a member.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 11, 1945, p 1
Gerrit Robert Hulstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hulstein, is now stationed in Korea. He wrote his parent that he was on an army baseball team of his company and they were scheduled to play a game in Tokyo, Japan on January 1.
Gerrit has over 50 points and will be eligible for discharge soon. His address is: Cpl. Gerrit Robert Hulstein 37486729, Btry. C., 51st F. A. Bn., APO 6, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 3, 1946, p 2
Gerrit Robert Hulstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hulstein, is stationed in Korea and has been promoted to Sgt. He expects to start for home in a month.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan 17, 1946, p 6
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Van Donselaar of Sheldon were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hulstein. Mr. Van Donselaar was recently discharged from the service and had been with Gerrit Robert Hulstein for some time while they were both in the Pacific.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 24, 1946, p 8
Sgt. Gerrit Robert Hulstein called his parents, Henry Hulstein’s that he had arrived in the states and expects to be leaving for home in the next week.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 14, 1946, p 4
Gerrit Robert Hulstein just returned home last Sunday after being in the service for nearly three years, two of which were spent overseas. He has received his discharge and is now assisting his father with the farm work.
Source: Sioux County Index Feb. 28, 1946, p 7
Servicemen Discharged
Discharge papers as follows were filed at the office of the County Recorder, Milton Van Roekel, since Feb. 8: ….. Gerrit Robert Hulstein, Orange City
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 28, 1946, p 10
Iowa, U.S., World War II Bonus Case Files, 1947-1954, Claim Number 98330
Gerrit Robert Hulstein, SN 37486729, was born on Sept. 13, 1922, at Sioux Center, Iowa, which was where he was residing prior to entering the army on Nov. 3, 1943, at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He served with the 51st Field Artillery Battalion, left for foreign service on May 27, 1944, returned on Feb. 11, 1946, and was honorably discharged on Feb. 17, 1946. His application for bonus pay was filed on May 20, 1949, for which he received $340.00.
Source: ancestry.com
