NEWS of the BOYS in the SERVICE.
Harry Louis Baack of LeMars has been promoted to seaman first class at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. His brother, Private Louis Baack, is at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
Source: LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, March 16, 1943
SOLDIER NEWS.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Baack, Mr. and Mrs. John Bultman Sr., Mr. and Mrs. John Bultman Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Huebner, all of Akron vicinity, attended memorial services for their brother, nephew and cousin, Harry Baack, of the U.S. Navy, held at Lawton, Ia. The service was held at Bethel Lutheran Church. Harry Baack, 23 years of age, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Baack, of Lawton, was killed in action on Nov. 20, 1943, and with 37 buddies, was buried at sea. He enlisted in the Navy in August, 1941.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, January 1, 1944
Harry Louis Baack was born Sept. 4, 1919 to Louis John Fred and Marie Katherine Theresa “Mary" Bultmann Baack. He died Nov. 20, 1943 (At Sea) and is memorialized at the Courts of the Missing, Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii. He has a cenotaph in Memorial Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA.
Petty Officer Baack was serving aboard the USS Mississippi (BB-41) at the time of his death. He was awarded the Purple Heart.
Source: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
