LT. Walter M. Straub, 22, killed in South Pacific action, lived with his aunts, Mrs. Edna Straub Whitesell and Frieda Straub of 5537 Wellesley avenue, for nine years after the death of his father, Walter M. Straub, in 1925. (from Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburg, PA, 1 Dec.1942).
According to the Baltimore Sunpapers on Nov. 29, 1942, Walter was a December 1941 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
There is another cenotaph for him at Memorial# 156488486. He attended Peabody High School in Pittsburgh for a year.
His mother, Mrs. Margaret H. Straub of the Madison Apartments, Baltimore, sponsored a destroyer-escort vessel named for her son when it was launched at Newark (Baltimore Sun, Sep 26, 1943). It was the USS Straub, (DE-181).
(contributor-Dan Phelan #47709857)
According to the Baltimore Sunpapers on Nov. 29, 1942, Walter was a December 1941 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
There is another cenotaph for him at Memorial# 156488486. He attended Peabody High School in Pittsburgh for a year.
His mother, Mrs. Margaret H. Straub of the Madison Apartments, Baltimore, sponsored a destroyer-escort vessel named for her son when it was launched at Newark (Baltimore Sun, Sep 26, 1943). It was the USS Straub, (DE-181).
(contributor-Dan Phelan #47709857)
LT. Walter M. Straub, 22, killed in South Pacific action, lived with his aunts, Mrs. Edna Straub Whitesell and Frieda Straub of 5537 Wellesley avenue, for nine years after the death of his father, Walter M. Straub, in 1925. (from Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburg, PA, 1 Dec.1942).
According to the Baltimore Sunpapers on Nov. 29, 1942, Walter was a December 1941 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
There is another cenotaph for him at Memorial# 156488486. He attended Peabody High School in Pittsburgh for a year.
His mother, Mrs. Margaret H. Straub of the Madison Apartments, Baltimore, sponsored a destroyer-escort vessel named for her son when it was launched at Newark (Baltimore Sun, Sep 26, 1943). It was the USS Straub, (DE-181).
(contributor-Dan Phelan #47709857)
According to the Baltimore Sunpapers on Nov. 29, 1942, Walter was a December 1941 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
There is another cenotaph for him at Memorial# 156488486. He attended Peabody High School in Pittsburgh for a year.
His mother, Mrs. Margaret H. Straub of the Madison Apartments, Baltimore, sponsored a destroyer-escort vessel named for her son when it was launched at Newark (Baltimore Sun, Sep 26, 1943). It was the USS Straub, (DE-181).
(contributor-Dan Phelan #47709857)
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