WWII Veteran * Big Stone County

Harold Palmer Olson

Entered Service: March 10, 1941.

Branch of Service: Field Artillery.

Trained at Field Artillery Reserve Training Center, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Camp Shelby, Mississippi; Camp Sutton, North Carolina; Camp Blanding, Florida.

Overseas: August 21, 1943.

Theatre of Operation: European.

Engagements:  Naples, Foggia, Rome, Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, Central Europe. 

Medals Earned: Air Medal with one Oak Leaf.

Returned to U.S.:  October 2, 1945. 

Discharged: January 28, 1946, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin.  

Rank: First Lieutenant.

Total Months in Service: Fifty-nine.

Commissioned December 17, 1942.