NEWS of the BOYS in the SERVICE.
Homer Banks, M.M.M. 2nd class, in the U. S. Navy on a PT boat off the Atlantic coast, arrived home Sunday from New York to spend a day with his mother Mrs. Florence Banks, of Sioux township.
Source: LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, Feb. 2, 1943
Homer Ross Banks was born Aug. 5, 1901 to Joseph F. and Florence O. Ross Banks. He died Nov. 19, 1946 and is buried in Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA. Homer enlisted in the U.S. Navy the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
He was assigned to P.T. boats in the Pacific and received two citations--when he saved a disabled craft and for meritorious work in connection with repair of the P.T. fleet from July 16 to Dec. 1, 1943.
Source: ancestry.com
