Harry Kulas

Williston High School

Class of 1925

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Harry Kulas - Class of 1925 - Williston High School

First Name	Harry
Last Name	Kulas
Graduation Year	Class of 1925
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	VA
Country	United States
About Me	a. Harry, Anton's first child, was born at Warsaw, N. Dak., according to his military records. According to Helen Maszk, Harry was on the Williston, High School football team that won the N. Dak. State championship. He graduated from high school in 1919. His military records state he worked for 8 years as a heavy construction carpenter, building R.R. bridges, water towers, and buildings prior to enlisting in the Army. He entered active duty on 22 November 1927 and served until he retired from active duty with 20 years of service on 30 November 1947 at Camp Stoneman, California. During his 5th enlistment, he was serving as acting First Sergeant of the 228th Signal Operations Company from 12 September 1941 to 9 April 1942 (He was captured by the Japanese on 9 April 1942) in the Philippines when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The 228th was capture in the Philippines Bataan Peninsula in 1942 and Harry became one of the 75,000 soldiers making the famous 4 day Bataan Death March during which about 10,000 soldiers died. Survivors of the march tell stories of how Harry attempted to keep his men together and helping each other during the march, and that he kept notes on men of his unit who were missing. When they were shipped from San Fernando to Oâ€™Donnell, the men of his unit found Harry missing. They later found him, in barely recognizable condition, in a make shift hospital dying of dysentery. Harry told his men he knew he was dying but that he didnâ€™t want to die there all dirty, so he asked his men to take him out and clean him up. They found water and took Harry out on a bamboo doorframe and clean him up as best they could. Miraculously, in about two days Harry recovered. About a month later most POWs were sent to Cabanatuan, but Harry was left with others at Oâ€™Donnell to clean the camp and bury the dead. In August 1944, Harry was shipped with 1045 others to a POW camp in Japan on the Japanese ship "Noto Maru". The ship he was on survived the American bombings of Japanese ships during the war. At one time Harry was at Camp Omori, a POW camp in Tokyo, Japan. In Japan he work as a POW until the end of the war where he was recover at Yokohama on 6 September 1945. Harry died 23 December 1963 at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco of acute myocardial infarction. Harry was not known to ever marry or have any children. Harry's military records indicate his motherâ€™s name as Frances L. Lamb with a California address (Cyril's Calif. address) indicating that his mother remarried at some time. A search of cemetery records through the website http://www.cousinconnect.com indicates that Harry was buried at the Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, San Mateo Count...(read more)