Navy Signalman
B. Leonard Avery signalman, third class is spending a 15-day leave with his parents Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Avery, 1611 Jackson Street.
Signalman Avery enlisted last April. Since then, as a member of the vice commodores visual signal crew, he has served in the armed naval guard aboard both Norwegian and American merchantmen. He was in convoys that traversed some of the most submarine-infested waters of the Atlantic.
Leonard received his signal corps training at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana and at Noroton Heights, Conn. But in civil life he had prepared for a career in commercial arts. After graduating from Central High School he attended the Art institute in Chicago. He remained in that city six years as a layout man in the catalogue department of a mail order firm.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, December 1942
