AVIATION METALSMITH FRED NOE
RECEIVES HONORABLE DISCHARGE
CLEAR LAKE – Fred Noe, aviation metalsmith first class, who served in the navy four years, has received an honorable discharge because of physical disability, it was announced Thursday. Noe served on both the Lexington and the Yorktown aircraft carriers.
Following the battle of Midway he was confined to a hospital in San Francisco, Cal., where his mother, Mrs. Tom Anderson, visited him. Later he came to Clear Lake on leave.
Mr. Noe was in Clear Lake over the weekend and also visited his father, Joseph Noe, Sheffield. He expects to return to California where his mother is living at 1190 Haight street, San Francisco, and where he has a job waiting for him.
Source: The Globe-Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Sunday, January 28, 1943
