WWII Veteran * Big Stone County

Wilbur E. Beaty

Entered Service: September 19, 1942.

Branch of Service: Navy

Trained at U.S. Naval Training Station, San Diego, California; Memphis, Tennessee, Destroyer Base and North Island, California. 

Overseas: from June 13, 1943 until October 26, 1944; U.S. Naval Air Station, Alameda, California.

Theatre of Operation: Asiatic.

Engagements: Guadalcanal, New Georgia and Rabaul. 

Medals Earned: Presidential Unit Citation.

Returned to U.S.:  October 26, 1944 

Discharged: October 9, 1945, Alameda Naval Air Station.

Rank: Aviation Machinist Mate 1/c.

Total Months in Service: Thirty-seven

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