World War II Honoree

Harold Glenn Golden

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Canon City, Colorado

Honored By

Edwin G. Anderson, Sr.

Relationship

Friend

ENLISTED IN THE NAVY IN AUGUST 1940. ASSIGNED TO THE USS SARATOGA AFTER BOOT CAMP AT SAN DIEGO. FROM THE USS SARATOGA HE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE USS RALEIGH AND THEN ON TO THE USS WHARTON. IN BETWEEN THE USS RALEIGH AND THE USS WHARTON ASSIGNMENTS HE ATTENDED HOSPITAL CORPSMAN SCHOOL IN SAN DIEGO AND WAS ASSIGNED TO THE HOSPITAL AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA. NOVEMBER 1942, ASSIGNED TO USS NECHES AO-47 WHERE HE ROSE TO THE RANK OF CHIEF HOSPITAL CORPSMAN. LEFT THE USS NECHES IN MAY 1945 TO BE ASSIGNED TO THE ROTC PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO IN BOLDER, COLORADO. FROM THERE WENT TO CLEARFIELD, UTAH NAVAL DISPENSARY. DISCHARGED FROM SHOEMAKER, CALIFORNIA IN AUGUST 1946 AND IMMEDIATELY ENLISTED IN THE U.S. NAVAL RESERVES. COMPLETED 34 YEARS OF NAVAL SERVICE AND RECEIVED AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE IN MAY OF 1974.