Iowa Honor Roll
Like the men pictured here on previous Sundays, these Iowans have given their lives for their country. Each one was either killed in action or died in prison camp. The fourth line under each picture gives the area in which the man last served. The list will be continued in future weeks.
Source: The Des Moines Sunday Register, March 12, 1944 (photos included)
Emmett Eugene Hartnett was born Oct. 18, 1918 to Daniel J. and Nellie G. McCormick Hartnett. He died June 16, 1942. He is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines.
Emmett lost his life aboard the USS Juneau when it was sunk in the in the battle of the Solomon Islands.
The American Legion Post in Gilmore City was renamed the Hartnett-Johnson Post #239 in honor of Petty Officer Emmett Hartnett and John A. Johnson (who died as a POW in a Japanese war camp after his capture in the fall of Corregidor.)
Sources: ancestry.com; Humboldt County Iowa War Memorial
