| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2014 July 2011 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Robert Krautstrunk joined the Navy in January, 1944 and served as a Radioman 2nd Class in the waning days of World War II on the USS Requin (SS 481). Requin (ray-quin) was a Tench-class submarine and the only ship of the U.S. Navy to be named after the requin, a sand shark. As a plank-holder on the Requin, Krautstrunk was a member of the initial crew who took the boat from its commissioning in April 1945 to combat patrol duty in the Pacific. He was aboard the Requin on its first combat patrol in the Sea of Japan when the war ended and the boat was recalled to port. He received his honorable discharge in May 1946 and returned to Chicago. | | | | Date Created: | 07-11-2014 | | | | Agency ID: | 805**14 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000052783 Original UID: 174005 FIRST WORD: Grayslake | |
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