Pharmacist’s Mate, Third Class JAMES HARVEY MALONE

Pharmacist’s Mate, Third Class JAMES HARVEY MALONE, United States Navy. Son of the late Harvey Clarence Malone and Mrs. Etta Biddison, 208 Watson Street, Bossier City Louisiana. Step Son of Staff Sergeant WILLIAM TALBERT BIDDISON KIA. He was born November 17, 1925, and had just graduated from Milford High School in June, 1943, when he enlisted in the Navy at the age of 17. He attended boot camp and Hospital Corps School in San Diego, California, and was assigned to duty as a hospital corpsman at Shoemaker, California On November 20, 1945, he embarked for the island of Guam, returning to the States November 17, 1946. He was assigned to the naval hospital on Guam as a corpsman. On the U. S. S. Starlight, he was with a fleet operating in the waters off Japan, and has the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre of Operations and the American Theatre Ribbons. Returning to the States on the same ship, U. S. S. Starlight, on duty with the Medical Corps, he received his honorable discharge March 11, 1946, at Camp Wallace, Texas. The youthful Pharmacist’s Mate spent more than a year as a medical corpsman on the Pacific battle fronts afloat and on Guam, then in the waters off Japan.

 

Source:

1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF LOUISIANA – LOUISIANA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE – 1946

2- Timothy A. Malone Records

3- Milford Texas in World War II 1944