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LCdr. Elmer Drummond Snare, U.S. Navy
Lieutenant Commander Elmer D Snare was the commanding office of the Maury (DD-401) from October 1940 until December 1942. The USS Maury received 16 Battle Stars and the Presidential Unit Citation during WWII.
Elmer Drummond Snare. Reno, Nevada. Graduated Reno High School in 1916.
USNA - Nevada 30 July 1917 (19 years 2 months old), Class of 1921 (may have graduated in 1920 due to a 1917 Act of Congress, WWI).
Reno, NV High School Alumni Notes 1914-1917 state: We are represented at Annapolis by Elmer Snare and Clark Green. Room-mates and both graduated USNA Class of 1921.
USS Birmingham (CL-2)
USS Chewink (AM-39)
Submarine School
USS S-40 (SS-145)
USS Rigel (AD-14/AR-11)
USS R-11 (SS-88)
Naval Ordnance Plant, South. Charleston, W Va.
USS Colorado (BB-45) (engineering) Bureau of Engineering, Operation and Maintenance Div., Navy Dept. Washington D.C.
USS Maury (DD-401)
Other Memories Elmer Drummond Snare Reno, Nevada "Tubby" "Eddie" USNA - Nevada 30 July 1917 (19 years 2 months old), Class of 1921 (may have graduated in 1920 due to an 1917 act of Congress)
Reno, NV High School Alumni Notes 1914-1917: We are represented at Annapolis by Elmer Snare and Clark Green.
1920, listed as Midshipman Elmer D. Snare
1921 Lucky Bag: Elmer Drummond Snare Reno, Nevada "Tubby" "Eddie" SOUNDS like a Wurlitzer advertisement for the latest in musical instruments of the brass band variety. All wrong, though, not a bit of brass there. Tubby tried to reduce Plebe year, but when he gained a pound by two weeks in the sweat room he quit in disgust. From then on, he was off work and no more fervent candidate for yeah noured oil stove can be found. Ed. surely has blossomed out since that fatal July day in '17. He says he is out to prove these city fellows are all wrong about their dope on the "woolly westerners." Now he wears a skull cap at night to preserve that nifty part in the middle of his hair. If you really want some good dope on the West just get Tubby and Casey Green, his staunch room- mate, started. That pair stick together like the opposing sides of a Tanglefoot team, although they have pulled enough things on each other to make an ordinary couple enemies for life. Tubby's good nature has made him a host of friends who all hope to meet him again on the long cruise. "Yes, the West is God's country."
MARCH 1, 1923 : Snare, Elmer D, ens, USS Birmingham.
