WWII US Navy Pharmacist mate Corpsman 2nd Class Blue Jumper Bullion Rate NAMED

Description: This is an excellent original period piece. Condition is used, but very good. Size 36. Named. Please look at the pictures and please ask any questions. I will try to combine shipping where possible and I will ship international. I have lots of other stuff so check out my other items! If you haven't already; add me to your favorite seller's list as I am always acquiring new inventory. Bag 8 Robert Lowry's Obituary: Robert R. Lowry, 96, entered into this world Sept. 28, 1923, and departed Friday, May 8, 2020, because of complications from Alzheimer’s.Bob’s grandfather had come to America as a boy with his family from Northern Ireland in 1870. Before coming to Idaho, the Lowrys had settled in Missouri. Bob was born at home on the family farm near Craigmont to William and Mona Ward Lowry. He had two siblings, Loretta and Dave.Farm life wasn’t easy, but he greatly enjoyed talking about growing up there. He often liked telling family how he was old enough to remember going to silent films as a young boy, and that when he started working on the farm he was paid $1.50 a day, which, he liked to remind people, was a good wage at the time. They farmed with horses until Bob was a teenager, and the family grew wheat, barley and oats and raised hogs. The farm didn’t get electricity until 1939, when Bob was a junior in high school, thanks to the Rural Electrification Act under President Franklin Roosevelt.Shortly after his high school graduation, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and World War II began for America. Bob joined the U.S. Navy and served as a pharmacist’s mate (today called a hospital corpsman). He was stationed in the South Pacific during the war on Bougainville, Biak and Owi, and toward the end of the war in the Philippines on Samar. He was devastated to find out near the end of the war that his first cousin, Loren Mitchell, had been killed in the Battle of Okinawa. Bob was very close to his cousins, Loren and Margaret, who grew up near the Lowrys.After the war, Bob attended the University of Idaho and met Barbara Dayton on a blind date. They married in 1947 and both graduated from college in 1948. Bob and Barb then moved to Albany in 1948, where Bob took a job with the Charles H. Lilly Seed Co. During the Korean War, Bob was called back to service, where he served on a net tender ship. He relayed that one of the most terrifying experiences of his life occurred during the Korean conflict when the ship went through a typhoon in East Asian waters. Bag 8

Price: 529.99 USD

Location: Santa Rosa, California

End Time: 2024-11-28T17:32:09.000Z

Shipping Cost: 18 USD