SOLDIER’S NEWS
Emil Kamradt, formerly of Merrill, whose home is at Sutherland, Ia., arrived home Wednesday morning, Dec. 13, and has to report back to Seattle, Wash., Jan. 17. He is in the Army Air Corps, and made the trip from Hawaii to San Francisco in 10 hours, in an army transport plane. Cpl. Kamradt is a radio man and has been working at a base on the Hawaiian Islands, keeping in contact with planes by radio. He was overseas 30 months—all of the time in Hawaii. He saw Pearl Harbor right after it was shot up by the Japs.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, December 21, 1944
***Further Research:
Emil Herman Kamradt was born Nov. 3, 1916 to Herman and Gesine VanHagel Kamradt. He died Mar. 7, 1994 and is buried in Waterman Cemetery, Sutherland, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
