Minnesota Discovery Center

Donald Forrest Brown, None

conflict:World War II
branch:Navy
rank:
serial number:
location:Boatswain's Mate 2/c. Motor Torpedo Boats Commissioning Detail in Portsmouth, R.I., and Aboard motor torpedo boats (PT) in Okinawa and the Philippines.
enlistment date:Oct. 31, 1942
place enlisted:
discharge date:Oct. 5, 1945
place discharged:Great Lakes, IL
decorations: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1941-1945)
Good Conduct Medal (U. S. Armed Forces)
Philippine Liberation Medal (1944-1945)
history:
service documents:
references:(1) Hometown Heroes: The St. Louis County World War II Project (2004?), p. 46. (2) Embarrass Victory Aides Newsletter Collection. Iron Range Research Center, Chisholm, Minnesota.

Personal Information

date of birth:Jan. 16, 1916
birth place:
home town:Hibbing, MN
date of death:Oct. 18, 1992
father:William J. Brown
mother:Eleanor Brown
siblings:Fern A. Geraldine Betty Dorothy Robert Jean E.
school:None

Last update: 7/15/2016