World War II Honoree

Harold M. Wulff

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Fulda, Minnesota

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Private First Class. On April 23, 1942, he was inducted into the United States Marine Corps at Minneapolis, Minnesota. His boot camp training took place with the Third Recruit Battalion Training Regiment; Marine Corps Base in San Diego, California. Later he completed his Marine Combat Training at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California. Served with the Twenty-Second Marine Regiment in the Territory of Hawaii, assigned to Fox Company, Second Battalion and Fifth Amphibious Corps. He died in the Line of Duty during a training accident, while participating in field maneuvers on Pauwela Point, Hawaii. Two U.S. Navy SBD-Dauntless Dive Bombers carrying live ordnance collided over the Point on December 6, 1943, and one bomb detonated among the trainees. Twenty Marines lost their lives and twenty five were injured from this incident. This Marine was interred in the Makawao Cemetery, Wailukii, Hawaii. After the cessation of hostilities with Japan, the family received his remains for burial, with interment November 5, 1947 at the Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota.