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    • Story City Historical Society
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  • Museums
    • Story City Museum
    • Sheldall Schoolhouse
    • Bartlett House Museum
    • Carriage House Museum
  • Events
  • Exhibits
    • Dr. Frances Bartlett Kinne
    • Story City Century Homes & Buildings >
      • Century Buildings
      • Century Homes
      • Brochure & Map
    • Sheldall Schoolhouse >
      • A Day in the Sheldall Schoolhouse
      • Sheldall School Students
      • Sheldall School Teachers
      • Life After Sheldall Schoolhouse
      • Sheldall Schoolhouse Video
    • Woodland Farms >
      • Hermanson Origins
      • Women of Woodland Farms
      • Woodland Diary
      • Woodland Turkey Growers
      • Woodland Farms International
      • Woodland Farms & Story City
    • WWI Gold Star Soldiers >
      • Clifford Cate
      • Milton Goins
      • Hans Abrahamson
      • Peterson & Wier
      • Boyd & Larson
      • Christian Karlsen
      • Clarence Olson
      • Peter Swenson Bratteland
      • Kornelius Tvedt
    • Story City in WWII
    • Downtown Business Project
  • Virtual Exhibits
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MUSEUMS OF STORY CITY

Harold L. Swenson

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Photo courtesy of Paul Swenson.
Harold Leverne Swenson was born July 16, 1926 to Archie and Julia Andrina Tesdall Swenson. He died Feb. 5, 1945 and is buried in Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Hombourg, Belgium and memorialized in Story City Cemetery, Story City, IA.
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Pvt. Swenson served in World War II with the U.S. Army Infantry and was KIA in Germany and awarded the Purple Heart.
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Story City Herald Articles
August 24, 1944
December 28, 1944
February 22, 1945
June 7, 1945
January 24, 1946
Draft Registration Card 
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Draft registration card front.
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Draft registration card back.
​Iowa Bonus File Application for Beneficiaries
Letters Sent by Harold to his Parents
Courtesy of Paul Swenson
September 28, 1944
December 8, 1944
January 21 1945
Funeral Program
​Courtesy of Paul Swenson
Document Gallery
​​Courtesy of Paul Swenson
American Battle Monuments Commission War Dead Certificate 
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Harold Swenson's grave in the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Hombourg, Belgium.
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Certificate of Adoption courtesy of Leon Sanders. Leon is the "Primary Sentinel of Memory" for Harold Swenson's grave in the Henri-Chappelle American Cemetery. These volunteers undertake a special pledge to visit the adopted grave frequently and to honor their memory with floral tributes.
https://aomda.org/en/content/swenson-harold-l
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