Robert De Kraay left for Des Moines on Monday morning after enlisting in the Navy the past week and will leave from there for service.
Source: Sioux County Capital Apr. 27, 1944 p 6
Robert De Kraay who is in the Navy arrived home from the G.L.N.T. (Great Lakes Naval Training) station on Tuesday evening to spend a nine day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry De Kraay after which he will be sent to school for some time.
Source: Sioux Center News June 1, 1944 p 10
Robert De Kraay drove to Sioux Falls on Monday where he visited with his former room mate Pier Witte for the day.
Source: Sioux Center News, June 15, 1944 p 3
At San Diego
Robert De Kraay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry De Kraay of Sioux Center, is in training at San Diego after completing his basic training at Great Lakes. He previously had one year’s work in pharmacy at the South Dakota State College, Brookings, before reaching his 18th birthday.
Source: Alton Democrat Aug. 3, 1944 p 8
4 Sioux Centerites meet in San Diego
Lt. John Wesselink, Joe Franken and Bob De Kraay who are all stationed in San Diego, Calif. enjoyed a dinner at the Franken home there last Sunday evening which was prepared by Mrs. Franken who is staying with her husband. Bob De Kraay who is attending hospital corpsman school there was working that day, but Lt. Wesselink went to the main office and got permission to take him with them, and a very enjoyable evening was spent together.
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 24, 1944 p 10
Robert De Kraay will graduate on Thursday from his 12 weeks of training at the hospital corpsman school at San Diego and will be moved to Los Angeles, Calif. where he will receive further training at the hospital. He spent the past weekend with Jackie Oliver who is also stationed at San Diego.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 21, 1944 p 10
The following is the new address of Robert De Kraay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry De Kraay who was recently moved to a new location.
Robert H. De Kraay H.A. 2/c
USN Hospital
Long Beach, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 5, 1944 p 10
Another new address is the following one for Robert De Kraay H.A. 2/c, U.S.N.T.C. Main Dental Clinic, San Diego, Calif. Bob has been transferred from the naval hospital at Long Beach to the San Diego hospital where he attends school in the morning and works in the Dental Clinic in the afternoon.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 16, 1944 p 10
Bob De Kraay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry De Kraay, sends his greetings from San Diego, Calif.
Dear Ed and friends Dec. 26
Just a few lines to let you know that in the midst of this holiday season, my thoughts are back home more than ever.
I’ve been receiving the News regularly and certainly enjoy it. I would also like to take this opportunity to the “Business Girls” and all who contributed, for the swell Christmas gift I received.
Wishing you all the very best of everything throughout the New Year.
Sincerely,
Bob De Kraay
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 4, 1945 p 9
Robert D. De Kraay, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry De Kraay, has been transferred from the Navy to the Marines and has this new address:
U.S. Marine Corp Barracks
11-D-1, Camp Penderson
Oceanside, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 25, 1945 p 8
Robert De Kraay has been promoted from H.A. 1/c to P.H.M. 3/c. The remainder of his address remains the same. He is stationed at Oceanside, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News July 12, 1945, p 10
Bob De Kraay, Pharmacist’s Mate, is home on fifteen day leave at present. Bob enjoys his work a lot, is at present in a dental clinic. He is stationed at Oceanside, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 1, 1945 p 2
Mrs. Henry De Kraay and her sister Miss Etta De Kraay of Orance City left for Long Beach, Calif. on Friday to spend a few weeks with Robert De Kraay who received a broken leg in a motorcycle accident just a few days before receiving his discharge from the Navy. He has been hospitalized for the past month.
Source: Sioux County Capital Aug. 29, 1946 p 7
Iowa, U.S., WWII Bonus Case Files, 1947-1954, Claim Number 153451
Robert Dean De Kraay was born May 6, 1926 in LeMars, Iowa, and was living in Sioux Center, Iowa prior to entering the Navy on April 23, 1944 at Des Moines, Iowa. He served with the USNH in Long Beach, Calif., the NTO in San Diego, Calif. and the HDQTRS Co. Service Bn. Marine Brks. Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif. He was honorably discharged on June 3, 1947. His application for bonus pay was filed on June 8, 1949, for which he received a $320.00 bonus.
Source: ancestry.com
