Jefferson County

 

Pvt. Harley V. Dunlap

 

 

Harley V. Dunlap was born Apr. 2, 1915 to F. Verle and Katie E. Crane Dunlap. He died June 2, 1944, and is buried in Rising Sun Cemetery, Rising Sun, IA.

Private Dunlap served in World War II with the U.S.Army 141st Infantry, 36th Infantry Division and was KIA by machine gun fire when he volunteered to neutralize an enemy machine gun nest that was holding up the company’s advance through Vellerti, Italy, on the road to Rome.

Source: ancestry.com