Robert J. Baker

Gunner's Mate Third Class Robert Baker enlisted in the Navy while still a student at Bay Shore High School. He attended Gunner's Mate School at Newport, RI and was stationed at the Naval Operations Base at Norfolk, VA. He was later assigned to the Naval Pier in Chicago. Aboard the Destroyer Escort 60, Robert served on the North Atlantic convoy duty in three invasions, being torpedoed once off Cape Hatteras. Further duty followed in the Pacific on the USS LST 939. He stayed in the Navy, returning to China o a US Relief boat carrying food and clothing to the Chinese people. He was discharged in November, 1948.