World War II Honoree

Raymond Gannon

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Providence, Rhode Island

Honored By

Helen G. Tomanic, Ray & Roy Gannon

Relationship

Children

ENLISTED IN 1944 AT AGE SEVENTEEN. ELECTRICIAN'S MATE SERVING ABOARD USS WINTLE AND USS PENSACOLA. READYING TO SHIP OUT FOR THE INVASION OF JAPAN WHEN THE WAR ENDED AND THEN SHIPPED OUT AS A PART OF THE OCCUPATIONAL FORCE IN JAPAN. SERVED IN OPERATION CROSSROADS, THE BIKINI ATOLL ATOMIC BOMB EXPERIMENTS. AWARDED WWII VICTORY MEDAL, AMERICAN AREA MEDAL, ASIATIC PACIFIC MEDAL AND NAVY OCCUPATION CHINA (ASIA) MEDAL.