World War II Honoree

Chester A. Nater

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Honored By

Terry A. Gill

Relationship

Daughter

MESSAGE CENTER CHIEF: Supervised and directed the flow of message traffic, assigning channels of transmission, servicing Msgs., logging, coding and decoding. Responsible for maintaining the most efficient agency of message transmission and receipt possible. Also acted as 1st. Sgt of Tank Destroyer Group, HQ as NCO in charge of HQ Company administration. INTELLIGENCE NCO: Supervised activities of intelligence groups whose mission is the detection and identification of Naval vessels, incident to the defense of San Diego Harbor.