Minnesota Discovery Center

Joseph Peter Mehle, Jr.

conflict:World War II
branch:Navy
rank:
serial number:
location:Served aboard the SS Pan Amoco, AGC Nola, SS Colabe, and the SS Jonathan Grout in the Pacific and European Theaters.
enlistment date:July 7, 1942
place enlisted:
discharge date:Dec. 5, 1945
place discharged:Minneapolis, MN
decorations: American Campaign Medal (1941-1946)
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1941-1945)
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (1941-1946)
World War II Victory Medal (1941-1946)
history:
service documents:
references:(1) Hometown Heroes: The St. Louis County World War Two Project (2004?), p. 202; (2) Chisholm War History Committee Records. Iron Range Research Center, Chisholm, Minnesota.

Personal Information

date of birth:Feb. 23, 1921
birth place:Ilava Gora, YU
home town:Chisholm, MN
date of death:April 17, 1981
father:Joseph Mehle
mother:Angela Mehle (nee Berlan)
siblings:
school:None

Last update: 11/25/2015