World War II

A HOMECOMING STORY

GRAFTON,WISCONSIN, was ready when Roy Coulson Harms finally came home. The townspeople had never forgotten him, not even after 80 years. He was an all-American boy who worked in his family’s general store and got around town on his ’27 Harley and his horse, Bonnie. They’d put his name on the local American Legion Post.

As a first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces, Harms was the first Grafton native to die in World War

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