Our Men In Service
Charles Clifford Larson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gust Larson, 1117 W. Fifth Street, has been engaged in navy transport service, according to a telephone message received by his parents. Larson previously served a four-year enlistment in the navy and reenlisted at the outbreak of the war.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, August 20, 1942
MEN IN SERVICE
Earl G. Larson, a former Sioux Cityan, has written that he is at a naval base in French Morocco. He reenlisted at Los Angeles as chief machinist’s mate in August of this year. He is the son of Gus Larson, 1613 W. 16th Street. He served four years during his first enlistment on a destroyer. In Sioux City, he was an engineer in the waterworks department. Charles C. Larson, another son, is serving on a destroyer “somewhere in the Atlantic.”
Source: The Sioux City Journal, December 16, 1942
IN UNIFORM
Earl G. Larson, chief machinist’s mate in the navy, has been discharged after serving over two and one-half years in the Mediterranean, and with his family has gone to Burbank, California to live. He was discharged at Solomons, Md.
A brother, Coxswain Charles Larson, in the navy eight years, has transferred to Yorktown, Virginia, where he will begin duty on a minesweeper. He served three years on a destroyer in the south Pacific and recently has been in the amphibious forces in San Diego. They are sons of Gus Larson, 707 Ross Street.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, October 6, 1945
