August Patrick Tomenellie (photo), Petty Officer, 2nd Class
Will celebrate 22nd birthday in Pacific
Worked at Barber-Coleman; enlisted in September 1942
1940 Graduate Rockford High School
In Atlantic April-November 1943
Source: Rockford Morning Star 7/9/1944
Killed in Action January 7, 1945, in Lingayen Gulf
USS Palmer Mine Sweeper
Source: Rockford High Schools newsletter November 2008
