WWII Veteran * Big Stone County

W. Duane Harrison

Entered Service: January 1942.

Branch of Service: Navy

Trained at Great Lakes, Illinois; Farragut, Idaho; Cocomada, California; and Bethesda, Maryland.

Overseas: May 8, 1945

Theatre of Operation: Pacific.

Engagements: Philippines, Japan. 

Returned to the U.S.: November 1945

Discharged: December 8, 1945 at Great Lakes, Illinois

Rank: Ensign

Total Months in Service: Three years, 11 months.

Landed first troops in Japan for the convoy during the signing of the Peace Treaty at Tokyo Bay. 

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