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Sammamish Wall of Honor
Donald Eli Kamp
? High School
Class of XXX, 19??

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Donald Eli Kamp

Donald Eli Kamp graduated from what high school?? His service number was XXX. Donald's next of kin was listed as XXX.

Donald Eli Kamp

Year		Rank		Status

1921		CHECK all below.		Pine Lake School, Gilman, WA. Teacher was Mary Grover Miller.
1922				Pine Lake School, Gilman, WA. Teacher was Betty Henderson.
January, 1928		3 years of high school		Isssaquah High School
1930 Census	x	Employed	x	Living at 3009 East Tiffin CHECK
date	x		x	Iowa National Guard CHECK
September 18, 1929	x	Family	x	Married Elizabeth "Betty" Beck in Seattle, WA
October, 1952-August, 1954	x	Military CORRECT	x	Served in Korea.
March 22, 1942	x	Enlisted	x	Enlisted in Tacoma, WA. Co. B, 35th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division. Purple Heart and Bronze Star
				35th Infantry Regiment ordered into active military service: 25 March 1942 at Camp Barkley, Texas.
March 31 , 1946	x	US Army/PFC	x	Discharged
May 1, 1943- May 31, 1943	x	US Army/Pvt	x	WHERE
June 17, 1943	x	Enroute	x	From Moses Lake, WA to Walla Walla, WA. Changed service location
September 23, 1943	x	US Army/Sgt.	x	21st Army Airways Communications Squadron, Army Air Force? Discharged.
1944	x	Residence	x	Living at 1268 Stewart Street in Des Moines, IA
Fall, 1985	x	Family	x	WHERE
January 10, 2001	x	Deceased CORRECT	x	Interred at Hillside Cemetery, Issaquah, WA, Find-A-Grave Memorial #41535790.

40th Infantry Division
On 1 September 1950, the 40th Infantry Division was again called into active federal service for the Korean War. Shipping out of Oakland and San Francisco, California in late March 1951, the division deployed to Japan for training. For the next nine months, they participated in amphibious, air transportability, and live fire training from Mount Fuji to Sendai. On 23 December, the division received alert orders to move to Korea. The division moved to Korea in January 1952. After additional training, the division moved north in February 1952, where it relieved the 24th Infantry Division on the battle line. At the time the division consisted of the 160th, 223rd, and 224th Infantry Regiments, and smaller non-regiment-sized units.

Painting of the 40th Infantry Division in the Kumwha Valley
In Korea, the 40th Infantry Division participated in the battles of Sandbag Castle and Heartbreak Ridge. In these campaigns, the division suffered 1,180 casualties, including 311 who were killed in action, and 47 who later died from wounds received in action. Total division casualties in Korea included 376 killed in action, 1,457 wounded in action, and 47 dead of wounds. After the division was sent back to Japan, its time in Korea was commemorated by the commissioning of a punchbowl created by a local silversmith, by some accounts made up of the melted down Combat Infantryman Badges of the divisions veterans, with the geography of Heartbreak Ridge etched inside the bowl. It was used at ceremonial functions until it was stolen, and was subsequently bought at a garage sale by a married couple, who kept it for 18 years. It was then recovered and put on display at the division headquarters. It is now displayed at the California State Military Museum, and is registered in the National Archives.

Three members of the division's 223rd Infantry Regiment were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Korean War: David B. Bleak, Gilbert G. Collier and Clifton T. Speicher. David Hackworth did a combat tour as company commander of E Company (Heavy Weapons) 1st Battalion 223rd Infantry Regiment and F Company 2nd Battalion 223rd Infantry Regiment in Korea with the division, when it was under the command of Major General Joseph P. Cleland.

After its return from the Korean War, the division was reorganized on 1 July 1954 as the 40th Armored Division. It had three combat commands (A, B, and C) in 1956.

1930 Kroll Township Map. Roy Philip Holsten was born in 1909, so presumably he lived at this Sammamish property in his early years.

Interred at Hillside Cemetery, Isssaquah, WA, Find-A-Grave Memorial #41535790

Donald Eli Kamp Sergeant First 40th Infantry Division US Army

Korean Service Medal; 2 Bronze Stars; United Nations Service Medal; National Defense Service; Good Conduct

References

(1) Information was obtained from the Records on Military Personnel Who Died, were Missing in Action, or Prisoners of War as a result of the Vietnam War. This document can be found online at the National Archives and Records Administration at http://www.archives.gov/.

((2) The comprehensive list of names from this site have been assembled and categorized according to date of birth. One can then associate from the date of birth approximately the time frame in which the individual may have been in military service.

Died 01/10/01. Interred at Hillside Cemetery, Issaquah, WA, , Find-A-Grave Memorial #41535790.

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