Harvey Walter Herms
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 25 January 1945, page 1
CPL Harvey W Herms, 27, son of Joseph Herms, of 205 Sixth avenue, Dayton, previously listed as missing in action in Luxembourgh since Dec 23, was reported by the War Department to be back with his company, his father was informed. He is serving with a medical unit.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 5 February 1945, page 2
Three sons of Joseph C Herms of 205 Sixth avenue, Dayton, are now serving with the fighting forces somewhere overseas. Cpl. Harvey W Herms is now serving with Gen. George Patton's Third Army somewhere in Germany. He was previously listed as missing in action since Dec 23, but was reported safe and with his outfit Jan 24.
Overseas 32 months, Cpl. Herms entered the service in October 1940 and has served in Iceland, Wales, Scotland, England, France and Germany.
Pft. Robert L Herms, a veteran of eight months of overseas duty, is now stationed in Newfoundland. An infantryman, Pfc. Herms entered the Army in April 1842. Cpt. Frederick A Herms is now serving with the Maintenance Engineers in England. Entering the Army in June 1942,he has been overseas 20 months. Another brother, Harrison R Herms served in World War I and was past commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 5 June 1947, page 1
Two northern Kentucky men, one a veteran of four years service overseas in World War II, were dead Thursday, victims of a flash fire late Wednesday at the plant of the Kentucky Chemical Industries, Inc. Winton Place, Cincinnati, where they were employed. The victims, who died of burns suffered when a spark touched off naphtha fumes in an extraction plant of the firm, were Harvey W Herms, 29 year old veteran of 1217 Fourth avenue, Dayton.
Mr. Herms ded at 8:30 pm Wednesday at General Hospital, Cincinnati, of third degree burns, from head to foot. Mr. Herms was one of three brothers, who served during the war. While with Gen. George S Patton's famous Third Army he was wounded in action and cited for bravery. He also was missing in action for a time, but turned up safe later.
The brothers who also saw action overseas are Robert, Dayton and Frederick, Detroit. Other survivors include his widow, Edna Herms; their 10 month old daughter, Marilyn; his father, Joseph C Herms, Dayton; four other brothers, Clement, Covington; Howard, Burlington Vt. Charles and Harrison, both of Dayton; and two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Lambert, Columbus O; and Mrs. Betty McGuire, now living in Japan with her husband, who is in the armed forces.
One of his brothers, Harrison served in World War I and is a past state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Requiem High Mass will be sung at 10 am Saturday at St Bernard Church, Dayton, followed by burial with Radel funeral home, Newport in charge, in St Stephen Cemetry. Military services will be held by Kersten-O'Day Post VFW of which Mr. Herms was a member at 8 pm Friday at the funeral home. All members of the VFW post have been asked to report at the funeral home at 9:30 am Saturday. Members of Drum and Bugle Corps have been requested to attend in uniform.
Harvey W Herms, known to his many friends as "Hoss" compiled an enviable war record, it was disclosed Thursday. A corporal in the Third Army he won both the Silver and Bronze Star medals for gallantry in action while serving as a medical corpsman. At one time, during which he was presumed dead, he was marooned by a German barrage in No Man's Land. He had gone, instead, into the front lines to bring back an officer.
The enemy barrage held him and the office two days, without food or water. At the end of that time he managed to drag the officer ot safety. But during the rescue Cpl. Herms was wounded twice by German snipers. His bravery in saving the officer's life at the risk of his own won him the Silver Star. Mr. Herms was a member of the Kerston-O'Day VFW Drum and Bugle Corps and the post baseball team.