World War II Honoree

Robert Starner Widmer

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

E. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Honored By

A Grateful American

SERVED P.T. BOAT (TORPEDO BOAT) SQUADRONS IN BOTH THE EUROPEAN AND PACIFIC THEATERS OF OPERATION, AS A RADIOMAN 3RD CLASS, HE WAS ABOARD PT-512 WHEN IT TOOK GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL TO NORMANDY BEACH SHORTLY AFTER D-DAY IN JUNE 1944.