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World War II Honoree

World War II Veteran

Leonard B. Willcox

Branch of Service

U.S. Coast Guard

Hometown

Dennis, Massachusetts

Honored By

Leonard B. Willcox

Branch Seal
Activity During WWII

Signalman first class on the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Northland, on Greenland Patrol, North of the Arctic Circle from February 1942 to January 1944. Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard, manned troopship, the USS Gordon (Gen), carried 1/2 Division each crossing, 5,000 men, to Naples, Marsailles, Le Havre, Portsmouth, Mehs-El-Kebir, North Africa many times February 1944 to August 1945. Panama Canalto Manila and home to San Francisco.