Harry Stuart

Personal Information

Birthplace: Chapman, Kansas

Service Information

Branch of Service: Army

Theater of Operation: Other

Enlisted / Commissioned: Jan 13, 1944

Highest Rank: PFC

Honored By: Dickinson Historical Society and Heritage Museum and the Eisenhower Foundation

Biography

No actual service information is available for Harry S. Sampson, Jr. He registered October 20, 1943, in Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas, and enlisted in the Army on Jan. 13, 1944, in Leavenworth, Kansas. His enlistment record states Harry S. Sampson’s enlistment was the standard, “for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law.” Harry S. Sampson completed 3 years of high school before his enlistment date. The following was listed next to Occupation: “Semiskilled mechanics and repairmen, motor vehicles.” Harry was a brother to Ike’s Soldiers veteran Eber Price Sampson.