I was looking for the Ship USS Salt Lake on the web and I came upon your website! Because all I have of my fathers days in the navy are his discharge paper and a newspaper article with his picture in uniform and them saying he was coming home.

I was shocked when I found your website and his "A" Division picture! I only got the newspaper article on him a year ago when I started to do some family research.

My father died May 5, 1981, he would be 76 years old now. I didn`t know his duties while on the USS Salt Lake, unfortunately I didn`t know my father after I was nine years old. So you can see why I was so excited!

His time spent on the USS Salt Lake was 5-20-43 to 10-25-45. I`m hoping someone will remember him and what his duties were.

While stationed in a submarine in foreign waters my father had an appendicitis attack. He had the necessary surgery while submerged in ocean waters.

You have done a wonderful thing creating this website and keeping the memorys alive for them and for the ones who loved them so much!

Thank you!

Cecelia M. Mussmann Barrett
Brenda, Dau.

SLC Deck Log Sep. 1943
#9 in picture with Shipmates
#18 in "A" Division, 1944
Tidbit from Robert B. Bowlin, MM2c

Bernard J. Mussmann, whose wife lives in Clinton, IA., is a member of the crew aboard a heavy cruiser [not allowed to name her], veteran in nearly every major raid and bombardment from the Aleutians to the South Pacific.

Bernard J. Mussmann, MM3c, whose wife Mary lives in Clinton, IA., is among 498 men aboard a heavy cruiser[not allowed to name] in the West Pacific who are simultaneously waging war against the Japs and providing for their own peacetime security by putting their navy pay into U. S. War Bonds.

Through the navy's efficient allotment plan, they voluntarily set aside a certain amount of the service pay for regular purchase of bonds.

Mussmann, son of Mr. & Mrs. Fred Mussmann of Clinton, IA., is serving with a veteran cruiser of nearly every major raid and bombardment from the Aleutians to the South Pacific.