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Home Town Brookline, Massachusetts
Last Address New Canaan, Connecticut In addition to his ashes being interred in the cemetery, some will also be spread over Vineyard Haven harbor.
Date of Passing Apr 07, 2012
Location of Interment West Chop Cemetery - Tisbury, Massachusetts
Best Moment "I was in Fremantle aboard the Anthedon in '44 and eventually sailed up to Subic Bay, where I served as a communications officer, welfare and recreation (?) officer and ship newscaster.
"After the bomb, we were one of the first co leave for home. Actually, I was lucky enough to get a berth on the Gilmore, which was like a cruise ship compared to the Anthedon.
"Admiral Fife was the flag officer for the 7th Fleet Submarine Force, headquartered aboard the Anthedon for some months.
"What I remember best about our time in Fremantle (aside from the Aussie women) was that whenever a British or Dutch tender tied up next to us, out came the rat guards for the lines that tied us to the Fremantle dock!"
Mike Wallace
Other Memories Wallace enlisted the United States Navy in 1943, and served as a communications officer during World War II on the USS Anthedon, a submarine tender. He saw no combat, but travelled to Hawaii, Fremantle (Perth) Australia, and Subic Bay in the Philippines, then patrolling the South China Sea, the Philippine Sea and south of Japan and wound up as a lieutenant junior grade in charge of radio entertainment at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Discharged in 1946, he returned to Chicago.
