William McLean

Era: World War II

Military Branch: Navy

William H. McLean of Duluth, Minnesota entered the Navy.

He was a Coxswain and master at arms and involved in commissary delivery at Pearl Harbor.

He said, "I was attending Denfeld high school (Duluth) when I enlisted in the Navy at 17 on May 17, 1945. When I completed training, I was placed on a ship on the West Coast enroute to Japan. The A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during this time, ending the war, and we diverted to Hawaii to serve out enlistment."

He was discharged on Aug. 10, 1946.

Source: Hometown Heroes: The St. Louis County World War II Project. 201.

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