WAR SERVICE NEWS
Nick Stoos of Remsen and Aloys Stoos of LeMars write home to relatives here that while they were stationed in Australia, they met each other. We can’t give the names of the divisions, but they both are in the Navy.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, July 22, 1943
NEWS of the BOYS in the SERVICE
Nicholas Stoos, Torpedoman 2/c, son of Nick Stoos Sr., was visiting his father and the family in Remsen after three years in the Navy, nearly all of which time was spent overseas. He enlisted in September, 1941, and landed at Pearl Harbor on December 3—but four days prior to the Jap attack there. However, he went aboard the Litchfield and was at sea when the attack came. The ship immediately returned and Nick was stationed there ever since with numerous patrol cruises in the area. He landed back on the west coast October 4. He left Sunday for New London, Conn., and will remain there indefinitely.
Source: LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, October 24, 1944
Nickolas J. Stoos was born Mar. 29, 1920 to Nickolas J. and Kathrine Knewel Stoos. He died Feb. 18, 1967 and is buried in Saint Marys Cemetery, Remsen, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
