World War II Honoree

Charles Matthew Fugger

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Roodhouse, Illinois

Honored By

Diane Fugger Schell

Relationship

Daughter

He enlisted in the Navy in April, 1937 and following recruit training at Great Lakes, Illinois he attended Pharmacist's Mate School at San Diego, California and X-Ray Tech School in Washington, D.C. He served in the Pacific Theater of Operations aboard the Battleship USS Colorado (BB-45) which departed Pearl Harbor for Bremerton, Washington a few days prior to the Japanese attack December 7, 1941. He transferred to the USS Waterford (ARD-5) in July 1943 as a Chief Pharmacist's Mate, and later to the USS Monticello (LSD-35), and Mobile Hospital #5 through February 1944. He was also stationed at Memphis, Tennessee and Dublin, Georgia.