Great Grandpa, Gordon, left home (Eleva, Wisconsin) to join the U.S. Navy when he was 17. He was assigned to the U.S.S. West Virginia, San Diego. I think he partied a lot, because he talks about beer in his log book

 

 

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I don't know what Gramps is doing here.

He is on the right.

 

A view from the deck of the U.S.S. West Virginia going

through the Panama Canal (Gatun Lake) in October, 1934

Panama

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