Garth Lewis Hall, USN
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Garth Lewis Hall, USN
| Brenda Beaman Parker (View posts) | Posted: 6 Jul 2000 12:00PM GMT |
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from Arkansas newspaper clipping, date and newspaper unknown (includes picture of Garth) -
SPA SEAMAN WILL WITNESS JAP SURRENDER
Seaman 2-C Garth Lewis Hall, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Hall, 107 Madison, and a member of the U.S.S. Missouri crew, will be present today when the formal surrender of Japan is made aboard that ship, anchored off the Tokyo coast.
Seaman hall was assigned to the Missouri at Camp Shumaker, Calif., following completion of his basic training at San Diego Naval Base, and has been in the Southwest Pacific since mid-November, 1944. He has seen action in a number of engagements in which the big battlewagon has participated. The Missouri made her triumphant entry into Tokyo Bay as Admiral Halsey's flagship on August 27.
The young Hot Springs seaman was induced August 14, 1944. He has three brothers and a brother-in-law in the service. A brother, Lyman R. Hall, yoeman 1-C, has served two and one-half years with a patrol squadron in the Atlantic. Another brother, Pvt. Dallas W. Hall is with the Craft company in the Philipines, and a third, Oliver Earl Hall, SC3-C, is serving on the LCI (G) 407, was in the invasion of Leyte, Luzon, Okinawa, and other of the Pacific Islands, and is now in the Japanese invasion armada. His brother-in-law, Capt. Edgar E. Parker is with the Seabees at Manila.
SPA SEAMAN WILL WITNESS JAP SURRENDER
Seaman 2-C Garth Lewis Hall, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Hall, 107 Madison, and a member of the U.S.S. Missouri crew, will be present today when the formal surrender of Japan is made aboard that ship, anchored off the Tokyo coast.
Seaman hall was assigned to the Missouri at Camp Shumaker, Calif., following completion of his basic training at San Diego Naval Base, and has been in the Southwest Pacific since mid-November, 1944. He has seen action in a number of engagements in which the big battlewagon has participated. The Missouri made her triumphant entry into Tokyo Bay as Admiral Halsey's flagship on August 27.
The young Hot Springs seaman was induced August 14, 1944. He has three brothers and a brother-in-law in the service. A brother, Lyman R. Hall, yoeman 1-C, has served two and one-half years with a patrol squadron in the Atlantic. Another brother, Pvt. Dallas W. Hall is with the Craft company in the Philipines, and a third, Oliver Earl Hall, SC3-C, is serving on the LCI (G) 407, was in the invasion of Leyte, Luzon, Okinawa, and other of the Pacific Islands, and is now in the Japanese invasion armada. His brother-in-law, Capt. Edgar E. Parker is with the Seabees at Manila.