World War II Honoree

Grant Edward Clyde

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Springville, Utah

Honored By

Family

Relationship

Grandson

In the Fall of 1941, he accepted a call to serve an LDS Church mission to the Japanese Mission in the Hawaiian Islands. He was serving on the island of Oahu on December 7, 1941, and witnessed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He and other missionaries later assisted with burying the dead and enforcing mandatory blackouts and curfews. Following his mission service, he was drafted into the U.S. Navy in June 1944. He attended Boot Camp and received Radio Operator training at the Farragut Naval Training Station in Farragut, Idaho. In January 1945, he was shipped to the Pacific on the USS Elkhart and was eventually assigned to the USS Prairie and USS Butte APA-68 as a Radio Operator. His ships were at Ulithi (Caroline Islands), and in Naha Harbor (Okinawa) on August 15, 1945, when Japan announced their surrender. Following the war’s end, his ship took the first convoy of troops to Korea, transferred troops to Manila, and then transferred Chinese troops from Hong Kong to Tiensen, North China. Later, they returned to Manila and loaded U.S. troops bound for San Pedro, California. He received an honorable discharge from the Navy on May 31, 1946.