Finish Basic Sub Training
Second Class Seaman Harry H. Shellenberger and James M. Fahey have completed basic training at a submarine school at New London, Conn.
After further training aboard ship, the men will be assigned to active submarine duty. Seaman Fahey is a son of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Fahey, 113 13th Street and Seaman Shellenberger is a son of Mrs. B. H. Shull, 3106 Irene Street.
Shellenberger is a Leeds High School graduate and won a letter in track. He enlisted in August, 1941. Fahey graduated from Trinity High School last May. He enlisted last June. Both men received basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
Source: The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, March 23, 1943 (photo included)
Harry Henry Shellenberger was born Jan. 17, 1924 to Henry and Ella Mae Hall Shellenberger. He died June 12, 1943 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, East Coast Memorial, New York, NY and in the Iowa Veterans Cemetery, Van Meter, IA.
Petty Officer Shellenberger served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the R-12 (SS-89) and was MIA/KIA when ship foundered on a training mission off Key West, FL.
Source: ancestry.com
