Sioux Cityan Freed: 2 Iowa Casualties
Casualty releases from the bureau of public relations of the war department include the following:
Army dead, European regions—Pvt. Harold E. Bell, son of William L. Bell, West Bend, Iowa.
Army wounded, Pacific regions –Pfc. Herman Van Donkelaar, husband of Mrs. Christina Van Donkelaar, Maurice, Iowa.
Army liberated prisoner of war,
Japan—Pvt. Clifford Gorsett, husband of Mrs. Gayle Gorsett, 29, Correctionville Road, Sioux City.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, October 24, 1945
Harold Ernest Bell was born Oct. 19, 1920 to William Louis and Martha Friedericka Block Bell. He died Feb. 21, 1945 and is buried in West Bend Cemetery, West Bend, IA.
Pvt. Bell served in World War II with the U.S. Army 376th Infantry, 97th Infantry Division and was KIA in Germany.
Source: ancestry.com
