Woodbury County

 
Pfc. Bill Hard

 

 

IN UNIFORM.

Tom Hannafin, shipfitter third class, is spending a 30-day leave with his mother, Mrs. E. Ostermire, 2001 S. Newton avenue, after serving 23 months in the South Pacific aboard a submarine tender. He guarded prisoners a short time on Saipan. 

While in Hawaii, he and three Sioux City boys held a reunion.  The other boys are Pfc. Bill Hard and Pfc. Fred Hard, 3420 Third avenue, brothers in the infantry, and Seaman First Class Don McDonald, Garretson avenue. 

Tom is a graduate of East high school and enlisted three years ago.

Source: The Sioux City Journal, March 30, 1945