World War II Honoree

Norman Edward Fritsch

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Washington, District Of Columbia

Honored By

Norma Fritsch

Relationship

Granddaughter

TOOK HIS BASIC TRAINING AT GREAT LAKES NAVAL TRAINING STATION, ILLINOIS. FROM THERE HE WENT TO NAVY TRAINING SCHOOL AT WRIGHT JUNIOR COLLEGE IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. NEXT WAS NAVY TRAINING SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON THEN ON TO THE NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. HIS LAST STATION WAS ON THE USS WALTER GORKA APD-114 WHERE HE WENT TO CUBA AND THEN TO ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA WHERE HIS SHIP WAS PUT INTO WHAT THEY CALLED THE MOTHBALL FLEET, IN CASE IT WOULD BE NEEDED AT A LATER TIME.