Electrician’s Mate, First Class Harvey Charles Weber

Electrician’s Mate, First Class Harvey Charles Weber US Navy. Born 16 December 1923 in Memphis, Tennessee. Attended grade school and South High in Denver and was a sheet metal worker prior to entering military service on 27 November 1942, at the age of 18. He received his preliminary training at the United States Naval Training Station at Farragut, Idaho, and was assigned for duty aboard USS Yard Mine Sweeper 93. He late served on the USS BENNINGTON (CV-20) in the Caribbean, and was with the BENNINGTON when it sailed for the far Pacific to join in the final great battles of the war. Attached to the Third and Fifth Fleets, the BENNINGTON and her crew participated in raids on airfields and installations on Okinawa, le Shima, Honshu, Kyushu, and Nansei Shoto; in the attack on the enemy naval base at Kure; in the sinking of an enemy convoy including the Japanese battleships YAMATO and NAGATO; in support of the invasion and occupation of Okinawa and Iwo Jima; and in strikes against the Tokyo area including airfields, shipping, naval units and factories. Electrician’s Mate 1st Class Weber has been awarded the American Theater Ribbon, the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon (PTO) with 3 Bronze Stars for the Iwo Jima and Okinawa actions and the raids on Tokyo, and the Good Conduct and Victory Medals. He is the son of Mrs. Minnie Weber of Denver, Colorado.

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