WWII Veteran * Big Stone County

R. Bruce Harrison

Entered Service: June 4, 1944

Branch of Service: Navy

Trained at Farragut, Idaho; Port Hueneme, California (September 1944.)

Overseas: October 1944

Theatre of Operation: Pacific.

Engagements: Okinawa and Philippines.

Returned to U.S.: April 1946

Discharged: May 25, 1946 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. 

Rank: Seaman 1/c (Baker)

Total Months in Service: Twenty-three.

Made eight trips across the Pacific on USS Edgecomb APA 164. Landed troops in Japan, September, 1945.    

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