Fireman, First Class Robert Edward Powell

Fireman, First Class Robert Edward Powell US Navy. Born 19 July 1926 in Liberal, Kansas. Attended the La Veta grade and Pueblo high schools, and was a steel mill employee prior to entering service on 26 July 1943, at the age of 17. Trained at Farragut, Idaho; Ames, Iowa; and New London, connecticut Served with Submarine Division 241, aboard USS LIONFISH and USS MANTA, in operation with the Third Fleet, Pacific. Holds the American Theater and Asiatic Pacific (PTO) Ribbons, Submarine Combat Insignia for successful war patrol, and Victory Medal. Honorably discharged in April of 1946, he is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Powell of La veta, Colorado.

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