NAVY SCHOOL GRADUATES
Three former residents of Sioux City have completed 16-week courses at the Navy service schools at Great Lakes, Ill. The names of the graduates are: Charles E. Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Taylor, 722 Clark street, who graduated from the school for quartermasters-signalmen; William J. Coughlin, 2805 Myrtle street, who also graduated from the school for quartermasters-signalmen; and Carl M. Nelson, husband of Mrs. Dorothy Nelson of 1506 Pierce street, who graduated from the school for yeomen.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, July 2, 1942
Aids in Rescue of Men Adrift for 3 Months
The thrill of helping rescue three seaman who had been adrift in the South Atlantic for 83 days on a raft, was told by Charles Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Taylor, 722 Clark Street, in a letter mailed from Trinidad, B.W. I., March 20.
With the letter, he sent a picture of the rescue that appeared in a Trinidad paper, showing one of the rescued men about to board a navy patrol boat off the Brazilian coast. In describing the picture, the newspaper declared that the men “were reduced to skin and bone by hunger, thirst and exposure.”
Charles Taylor, who enlisted here January 15, 1942, is a graduate of Central High School and was working at Armour & Co. at the time of his enlistment. He is on a United States destroyer on patrol duty.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, March 30, 1943 (photo included)
