Sioux City Sailor Is Lost at Sea
A telegram saying that their son, Carl Kuklentz, 26, was swept from the deck of the United States ship and is believed to have drowned was received by Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Kuklentz, 112 Plymouth Street. The ship was used several times for cruises by President Roosevelt and at least three times Kuklentz was a member of the crew. He had been a second class gunner’s mate for several years. Kuklentz had served six years in the navy and had recently reenlisted. He was a graduate of Central High School.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, February 10, 1942 (photo included)
IOWA HONOR ROLL
These Iowans, like those pictured here on previous Sundays, have given their lives for their country. They are men who have died in actual combat or in prison camps. The fourth line under each name designates the theatre of war in which they were serving. Other pictures will be published later.
Source: The DesMoines Register, Sunday, February 13, 1944 (photo included)
Carl John Kuklentz was born Apr. 26, 1915 to Edward and Pearl Salisbury Kuklentz. He died Jan. 1, 1942 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England and in Graceland Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA.
Petty Officer Kuklentz served in World War II aboard the USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) and lost his life in the service of his country as the result of the accidental swamping of a forty foot motor launch in the harbor of a foreign port.
Source: ancestry.com
