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Hackensack High School
Yearbook Photo
1940

 

New Milford Image
Homer E. Reighard New Milford

 

Entered service May 28, 1941…Trained at Newport, R.I….Assigned to U.S.S. Mt. Vernon; U.S.S. L.C.I.-23; U.S.S. L.C.I. -223; U.S.S. L.C.I. 62; U.S.S. Republic; Mob. #7
New Caledonia; Mob. #8 Guadalcanal; U.S.S. A.T.R. -#7 (Atlantic Fleet) ; U.S.S. Wilkes Barre (C. L. -103) ; U.S.N. Hospital, Newport R.I.; U.S.N. Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. ;
3rd Marine Division, 21st Marines, South Pacific; U.S.N. Disciplinary Barracks, Shoemaker, Calif. ; Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md…Date of discharge April, 1947…Graduated
New Milford Junior High School 1937.

 

Background image of U.S.S. Mt. Vernon obtained from:

http://www.britain-at-war.org.uk/ww2/Convoy_William_Sail_12x/html/body_troop_deployment.htm