Portrait of Harry Wayne Nelson, a Private in the U.S. Army. Nelson was born on April 22, 1911, in Jamestown, Kansas, and his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1914. He enlisted on November 28, 1942, and was first sent to Africa and then to Sicily. He was killed in action on August 4, 1943, and awarded the Silver Star.
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