WWII Veteran * Big Stone County

Walter L. Gustafson

Entered Service: July 27, 1942

Branch of Service: Navy

Trained: Great Lakes from July until December 1942. Also New York City from January until March.

Overseas: March 16, 1943

Theatre of Operation: Atlantic and Pacific.

Engagements: Participated in seven in the Pacific.

Returned to the U.S.: June 1945. 

Discharged: October 25, 1945 at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Rank: Electrician Mate 2/c.

Total Months in Service: Three years, three months.

Served twenty months on a battle ship, USS Washington, and seven months on a destroyer. 

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