Henrik Petersen, seaman second class, has finished his boot training at Great Lakes, Ill., and has been transferred to Norman, Okla., to train in the naval advanced ordnance school, according to word received from him by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Petersen, Grant highway. Seaman Petersen enlisted and left last Dec. 28.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, April 14, 1943