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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
Wallace enlisted in 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 traveled to Hawaii, Australia, and Subic Bay in the Philippines, then patrolling the South China Sea, the Philippine Sea and south of Japan. Wallace returned to Chicago after being discharged in 1946.
He joined the Navy in December, 1943, and served in the Pacific as a Submarine Force communications officer, and later as officer in charge of radio entertainment at Great Lakes. He returned to commercial radio in 1946, acting in and announcing a variety of programs. For a period of five years, he was known around Chicago as ?Mr. Radio.?