World War II Honoree

Paul Roger Graham

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

St. Louis, Missouri

Honored By

Paul, Diana, Mary and JoAnn Graham

Relationship

Children

He was inducted into the U.S. Navy October 1942. He served aboard the USS Gilmer (PC-565). He and his shipmates escorted convoys and patrolled the U.S. coast line from Iceland to Trinidad and Tobago. On June 2, 1943 The PC-565 sunk a German U-boat (U-521) off the coast of Virginia. In March 1944 the PC-565 set sail for the European theater of Operations and served as a radio ship during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. The ship spent the rest of the war in Europe before returning to the U.S. in October 1945. He was discharged March 12, 1946.