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Sammamish
Wall of Honor
Donald Eli Kamp
? High School
Class of XXX, 19?? |
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Research
done by Claradell Shedd. PAGE IN PROGRESS |
Donald
Eli Kamp |
Donald Eli Kamp graduated from what
high school?? His service number was XXX. Donald's next of kin was
listed as XXX.
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Donald Eli Kamp |
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Year |
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Rank |
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Status |
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1921 |
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CHECK all below. |
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Pine Lake School, Gilman,
WA. Teacher was Mary Grover Miller. |
1922 |
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Pine Lake School, Gilman,
WA. Teacher was Betty Henderson. |
January,
1928 |
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3 years of high school |
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Isssaquah High School |
1930 Census
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x |
Employed |
x |
Living at 3009 East Tiffin
CHECK |
date |
x |
 |
x |
Iowa National Guard CHECK |
September
18, 1929 |
x |
Family |
x |
Married Elizabeth "Betty"
Beck in Seattle, WA |
October,
1952-August, 1954 |
x |
Military
CORRECT |
x |
Served in Korea. |
March 22,
1942 |
x |
Enlisted |
x |
Enlisted in Tacoma, WA.
Co. B, 35th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division. Purple Heart and
Bronze Star |
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35th Infantry Regiment
ordered into active military service: 25 March 1942 at Camp Barkley,
Texas. |
March 31
, 1946 |
x |
US Army/PFC |
x |
Discharged |
May 1, 1943-
May 31, 1943 |
x |
US Army/Pvt
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x |
WHERE |
June 17,
1943 |
x |
Enroute |
x |
From Moses Lake, WA to
Walla Walla, WA. Changed service location |
September
23, 1943 |
x |
US Army/Sgt. |
x |
21st Army Airways Communications
Squadron, Army Air Force? Discharged. |
1944 |
x |
Residence |
x |
Living at 1268 Stewart
Street in Des Moines, IA |
Fall, 1985
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x |
Family |
x |
WHERE |
January
10, 2001 |
x |
Deceased
CORRECT |
x |
Interred at Hillside
Cemetery, Issaquah, WA, Find-A-Grave Memorial #41535790. |
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40th Infantry
Division
On 1 September 1950, the 40th Infantry Division was again called into
active federal service for the Korean War. Shipping out of Oakland and
San Francisco, California in late March 1951, the division deployed
to Japan for training. For the next nine months, they participated in
amphibious, air transportability, and live fire training from Mount
Fuji to Sendai. On 23 December, the division received alert orders to
move to Korea. The division moved to Korea in January 1952. After additional
training, the division moved north in February 1952, where it relieved
the 24th Infantry Division on the battle line. At the time the division
consisted of the 160th, 223rd, and 224th Infantry Regiments, and smaller
non-regiment-sized units.
Painting of the 40th Infantry Division in the Kumwha Valley
In Korea, the 40th Infantry Division participated in the battles of
Sandbag Castle and Heartbreak Ridge. In these campaigns, the division
suffered 1,180 casualties, including 311 who were killed in action,
and 47 who later died from wounds received in action. Total division
casualties in Korea included 376 killed in action, 1,457 wounded in
action, and 47 dead of wounds. After the division was sent back to Japan,
its time in Korea was commemorated by the commissioning of a punchbowl
created by a local silversmith, by some accounts made up of the melted
down Combat Infantryman Badges of the divisions veterans, with the geography
of Heartbreak Ridge etched inside the bowl. It was used at ceremonial
functions until it was stolen, and was subsequently bought at a garage
sale by a married couple, who kept it for 18 years. It was then recovered
and put on display at the division headquarters. It is now displayed
at the California State Military Museum, and is registered in the National
Archives.
Three members of the division's 223rd Infantry Regiment were awarded
the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Korean War: David B.
Bleak, Gilbert G. Collier and Clifton T. Speicher. David Hackworth did
a combat tour as company commander of E Company (Heavy Weapons) 1st
Battalion 223rd Infantry Regiment and F Company 2nd Battalion 223rd
Infantry Regiment in Korea with the division, when it was under the
command of Major General Joseph P. Cleland.
After its return from the Korean War, the division was reorganized on
1 July 1954 as the 40th Armored Division. It had three combat commands
(A, B, and C) in 1956. |
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1930 Kroll Township Map. Roy Philip
Holsten was born in 1909, so presumably he lived at this Sammamish
property in his early years.
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Interred
at Hillside Cemetery, Isssaquah, WA, Find-A-Grave Memorial #41535790
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Donald
Eli Kamp
Sergeant First
40th Infantry Division
US Army |
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Korean Service Medal; 2 Bronze Stars; United Nations Service Medal;
National Defense Service; Good Conduct
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References |
(1)
Information was obtained from the Records on Military Personnel
Who Died, were Missing in Action, or Prisoners of War as a result
of the Vietnam War. This document can be found online at the National
Archives and Records Administration at http://www.archives.gov/.
((2) The comprehensive list of names from this site have been
assembled and categorized according to date of birth. One can
then associate from the date of birth approximately the time frame
in which the individual may have been in military service. |
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Died 01/10/01.
Interred at Hillside Cemetery, Issaquah, WA, , Find-A-Grave Memorial
#41535790.
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