MEN IN SERVICE
R. B. Asprey, son of Councilman and Mrs. Peter Asprey, 2508 Jackson Street, has returned home after induction into the marine corps. He expects to be called to active duty about January 1.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, December 16, 1942
MEN IN SERVICE
Robert B. Asprey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asprey, 2508 Jackson street, now is a United States marine. He left here for the marine training base at San Diego, Cal.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, January 14, 1943
Men And Women In Service
Robert B. Asprey of the marines is now Lieut. Asprey. He enlisted only a few months ago and went to San Diego. From San Diego he went to Quantico, Virginia and entered a marine training school, with the result that he has just been given a commission. He and Tyrone Power met at San Diego, became friends and took their training together. Asprey is a son of Councilman and Mrs. Peter Asprey, 2508 Jackson Street.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, June 16, 1943
IN UNIFORM
Lt. R. B. (“Bob”) Asprey, has written his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asprey, 2508 Jackson street, under date of March 9, that he had a brief visit with Sgt. John B. Carey, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Carey, Bellevue apartments, on Iwo island. He is with the Fifth marines there, and young Carey is with the Third marines. They had become friends, as boys, while the Aspreys and the Careys were next door neighbors in Sioux City (and probably without any notion that 10 years later they would meet on a far off Pacific island in uniform as fellow fighters against the Japanese.)
Source: The Sioux City Journal, March 16, 1945
