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Roy Crisman

Roy Crisman Jr wearing glasses, a white shirt with a blue jacket and a blue veterans cap

Roy Crisman Jr., 2007

  • Branch of Service: United States Navy
  • Highest Rank: Electrician Mate 1st Class
  • Military Service: January 1945 - October 1946

Roy C. Crishman Jr. Obituary 

Images Provided by Roy Crisman Jr. at an Event in Wagner, SD
Roy Crisman in uniform on a bike in front of a car

Roy Crisman Jr. was home on leave during WWII

Roy Crisman Jr. and parents sitting of steps by house

Photo of Roy Crisman Jr. with his parents in 1945

1946 Calendar floral cover

A calendar was sent to an aunt in 1946 from Pearl Harbor.

Wooden plaque engraved "To Mother US Naval Training Camp Great Lakes, Illinois" with USN and blue anchor image in the middle

A plaque was sent to his mother during boot camp in 1945.

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