Inscription
Connecticut
SM3 USNR
World War II
WWII Navy Seaman 3rd Class, Robert E. Bement, a Torrington native who was also killed in World War II.
Seaman Bement entered the U.S. Navy in August 1943 and was initially assigned to the USS Meredith, which was sent to the European Theatre and supported the Normandy Invasion. The ship struck a mine and sank off the coast of Normandy. After the invasion, Seaman Bement was transferred to the USS Shea at the Boston Navy Yard and the ship embarked on a shakedown cruise that took them through the Panama Canal and on to the Southwest Pacific where Seaman Bement was killed when a Japanese Kamikaze aircraft dove into the USS Shea off the coast of Okinawa on May 4, 1945. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, the European Theatre Ribbon, the Southwest Pacific Theatre Ribbon, the American Defense Medal and the American Theatre Medal.
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