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Wesley Hope Blinston

Wesley Hope Blinston

 Purple Heart

Rank/Rate Radioman, Third Class
Service Number 510 02 77
Birth Date August 14, 1918
From Billings, Montana
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Grunion (SS-216)
Loss Date July 30, 1942
Location Near entrance to Kiska Harbor, Alaska
Circumstances Sunk by armed Japanese freighter Kano Maru
Remarks Wesley was born in Cascade, Montana.

Photo courtesy of Shelby M. Starling, daughter of Delbert Blinston.  Thanks also to Lorna Thackeray of The Billings Gazette.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

 

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