Harold Elmer Stroop



In Loving Memory of Harold Elmer Stroop
STROOP, HAROLD ELMER
Service Number: 280-00-42
Enlisted USN: 2 July 1942
Discharged USN: 16 October 1945
Ratings
AS: 2 July 1942
S2c: 21 November 1942
S1c: 1 January 1943
Cox: 2 February 1944
Assignments
Basic Training, Great Lakes, IL: 3 July 1942 * 26 November 1942
Armed Guard School, Gulfport, MS: 27 November 1942 * 25 December 1942
AGC RS New Orleans, LA: 25 December 1942 * 19 July 1943
AGC RS Brooklyn, NY: 22 July 1943 * 3 August 1944
42nd Field Hosp/261st Med Battalion, Utah Beach, Normandy:
25 July 1944 * 28 July 44
USN Base Hosp #12, Netley, Hants, England: 28 July 1944 * 4 August 1944
USS Dogwood (Hosp Ship): 4 August 1944 * 19 August 1944
USN Hosp, Charleston, SC: 19 August 1944 * 28 August 1944
USN Hosp, Philadelphia, PA: 30 August 1944 * 16 October 1945
Awarded Purple Heart: 31 August 1945
Liberty Ship Assignments
SS Simon Willard: 28 December 1942 * 2 August 1943
SS William J. Duane: 11 September 1943 * 9 March 1944
SS Robert E. Peary: 3 April 1944 * 25 July 1944
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