I attended the meeting of the Fox Lake/Grant Township Historical Society on January 19th.
Whi;e waiting for the meeting to start, I noticed a photograph of a very young-looking sailor in a cabinet. It was of James Arthur Welch, born January 11, 1927, died November 10, 1944. The caption read "serving aboard the USS Sierra AD-18, in the Pacific. Involved with the destruction of the USS Mount Hood.
No one there knew anything about him. What really got to me was that he died just two months shy of his 18th birthday. He must have lied about his age to get into the Navy. I didn't think they took anyone that young.
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