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Purple Heart Walk 2025

The following soldiers from Nemaha County made the ultimate sacrifice during World War II.
Each name below links to an individual tribute page, along with a YouTube video that shares their story through a brief audio narrative. These men are honored as part of the Purple Heart Walk, a project of the Nemaha County Historical Society to remember and recognize our local heroes who were killed in combat.

Ralph Allen

Leroy Armstrong

Lewis Barrett

Bernard Becker

George Bieri

Harry Bieri

Richard Bindel

Joseph Boeding

Virgil Brown

John Dailey

Carol Domer

Joseph Enneking

Roy Fund

Robert Griffith

William Guilford

Donald Hall

Arlie Higgins

Henry Huninghake

Galen Kellenberger

George Kohake

Francis Long

Earl Meyer

George Moore

Cyril Nolte

Raymond Rokey

Frank Schafer

Bernard Schultejans

Robert Shaw

Haley Skinner

Jonas Smith

George Springer

Elgin Strahm

Emmett Stueve

Ernest Swart

Moses Tate

George Weeks

Willard Winsor

Lawrence Winterscheidt

Raymond Woltkamp

Disclaimer: Artificial intelligence was used to generate the written narratives from original source material and to produce the audio overviews featured in the videos.

Nemaha County Historical Society
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