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Monday, April 22, 2013

Profiles Spring-Summer 2013 HFDFW


 

James had always loved the water. This was one of the reasons that he decided to enlist in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17. This was on July 27, 1944.

After basic training James was assigned to the job as a second loader of a 40 mm antiaircraft gun on a landing craft support vessel.

He served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of operations. He was discharged with the rank of Coxswain on September 2, 1946.

James was awarded the Asiatic-Pacific medal with one star, and the Philippine Campaign medal.

  

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