IN UNIFORM
Ernest D. Dandurand, radarman second class, U.S.N.R., participated in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa battles while serving on Admiral R.K. Turner’s amphibious force flagship, U.S.S. Eldora. He has spent 22 months in the Pacific war theater. Dandurand was employed in the city sales department of Frank Pilley & Sons before entering the navy.
Radarman Dandurand has five brothers in the army, Bernard and Leon, who were in the European war theater and now are discharged on the point system; Ralph and Clarence, both in the Pacific theater, and Orville, stationed at an airfield in the States.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, October 14, 1945
