Soundman, First Class Carl C, Parks

Soundman, First Class Carl C, Parks US Navy. Born 29 May 1906 in Indiana. He attended primary and high schools in Colorado and worked in shipyards and in the Maritime Service prior to entering the Navy on 26 September 1942, at the age of 36. He trained at the West Coast Sound School in San Diego, California, and served aboard the USS ALMANDITE (PTO), a weather report ship, for over 2 years. He was later assigned to Enlisted Troop Train Personnel, S.P. duty, and was honorably discharged on 19 January 1946. He is the son of Rosa M. and A. A. Parks, of Englewood, Colorado.

 

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1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF Colorado – Asiatic-Pacific Theater World War Two – 1948