They used to fly cross-country to New Orleans[1] or Savannah[2] on the weekends, barely getting back before Monday classes – earning him the nickname of "Hairsbreadth Harry".
Harry returned stateside to serve at Fort Dix, New Jersey, as an airborne recruiting officer from June 1950 to February 1951.
On March 28, 1951, during the Han River crossing his company was involved in attacking a strongly held enemy position near Haeryong.
Cramer personally led a bayonet charge that drove the enemy from their trenches, allowing the unit to advance, but was wounded by machine gun fire.
After three months' recuperation in Japan, he returned to the front to serve as the commander of Company D (Heavy Weapons), 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry.
He was then wounded again by mortar shell fragments to his shoulder and back, earning the bronze oak leaf cluster to his Purple Heart.
He realized the war would be a stalemate until a truce or peace treaty was signed, so he transferred to work as an aerial observer in an artillery spotter plane.
Captain Cramer was assigned to the Mobile Training Team, 14th Special Forces Operational Detachment (Area), MAAGV.
The sixteen-man 14th SFOD, under the cover of the "8251st Army Service Unit", was transferred to Fort Shafter, Hawaii in June 1956 and shortly thereafter to Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
From June to November 1957, they began training Vietnamese Special Forces in raiding operations and related skills.
During an ambush drill, a Vietnamese soldier near Cramer was readying to throw a lit block of melinite (a French military high explosive) when it prematurely detonated.
Cramer's son asked that his father's name simply be added to the center (1E) stone, out of sequence, but it is still clearly listed in the chronological book at "The Wall" as 1957, not 1959.)
Previously it had been declared as Spec/4 James T. Davis, who died (along with nine South Vietnamese soldiers) in a Viet Cong ambush on December 22, 1961.
Later, when the 1st Special Forces Group moved into its new facilities at Fort Lewis in 1987, they named a street (Cramer Avenue) after him.
[10] Harry married Anne Charmonte Supple of Newburgh, NY at the Catholic Chapel at West Point on June 25, 1947.