Our Neighbors in the Services
Storm Lake, Iowa – Harold Godwin, who has seen action against the enemy in the South Pacific, is on a 30-day leave, part of which he is spending here with his father, P.M. Godwin. Godwin, a warrant machinist, has been in the navy eight years. This is his first visit to Storm Lake since January, 1940.
He is a brother of Orville Godwin who went through the assault on Pearl Harbor and who has survived two ship sinking’s.Source: The Sioux City Journal, May 5, 1943
***Further Research:
Harold Prior Godwin was born July 9, 1914 to Prior M. and Alice Smith Godwin. He died Aug. 14, 1988 and is buried in Springfield National Cemetery, Springfield, MO. Chief Warrant Godwin served with the U.S. Navy in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
Source: ancestry.com
