Looking for World War II submariners

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4. I got a call back from the one family I have good phone numbers for!

The daughter is excited - she knew her father had received the medal but never knew the details why. Dad had written accounts of the incident so I will send her copies of that and of the log entries concerning it. She's thrilled and thinks her son, a history teacher, will be able to use the information in his classes.

Yes, I have the information on Leonard Small's parents and marriage - he and his wife show up in the City Directory for 1951 and 1956 in Lynn, Massachusetts. Since they are at the same address both of those years, I'm sure there were there in between. There are several Leonard Smalls in Massachusetts of about the same age which complicates things - and I haven't got a lot of extra time to spend. I'll keep working on him.

I still haven't found children or a death record for him or for Robert R. Graves. Robert R. Graves is just too common a name! Why, oh why couldn't the Navy have entered the birth dates as part of their information? I even found some places where they listed wives - but not for these guys, darn it!