World War II Honoree

Leslie Crane

Branch of Service

U.S. Coast Guard

Hometown

Silver Lake, Washington

Honored By

Family

STATIONED AT BANDON, OREGON AND THEN, WENT TO THE EAST COAST WHERE HE WENT TO LANDING BOAT SCHOOL IN NEW RIVER, NORTH CAROLINA. HE WAS ON THE USS JOSEPH HEWES AP-50 ON 11 NOVEMBER 1942 WHICH WAS TORPEDOED AND SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINE U173 NEAR FEDHALA ROADS, MOROCCO. HE SURVIVED AND WAS SENT TO ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI FROM FEBRUARY 1943 UNTIL DECEMBER 1944. IN JANUARY 1945 HE WENT TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC AND PARTICIPATED IN THE INVASION OF IWO JIMA AND OKINAWA WHERE TROOPS WERE TAKEN TO HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, JAPAN.