World War II Honoree

Robert Lewis Coffey

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Honored By

Martha Coffey Barrett

Relationship

Daughter

SERVED ABOARD THE USS LST 841 FROM 1944 THROUGH 1946 AS A SIGNALMAN. SERVED IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS OCCUPATION AND SAW ACTION IN THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA. AFTER THE JAPANESE SURRENDER, TRANSPORTED AMERICAN TROOPS OFF OKINAWA BACK TO HAWAII; KOREAN CIVILIANS FROM CHINA TO KOREA AND REPATRIATED JAPANESE TROOPS BACK TO JAPAN. FOR SERVICE TO HIS COUNTRY, WAS AWARDED THE WWII VICTORY MEDAL, ASIATIC-PACIFIC THEATER MEDAL, AMERICAN THEATER MEDAL AND PHILIPPINE LIBERATION MEDAL.