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Casualty Info
Home Town Ryegate, MT
Last Address 9 Alderson Ave Billings, MT (Mother~Sophie H Blinston)
Casualty Date Jul 30, 1942
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Lost At Sea-Unrecovered
Location Gulf of Alaska
Location of Interment Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
Wall/Plot Coordinates Court 5 (Cenotaph)
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Obituary in the THE BILLINGS (MONTANA) GAZETTE
Date
Sep 19, 1943
Last Updated: Apr 10, 2017
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THE BILLINGS (MONTANA) GAZETTE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1943, PAGE SEVEN
REPORT LOCAL SAILOR DEAD: WESLEY BLINSTON WAS IN ALEUTIANS Wesley Hope Blinston, 25, son of Mrs. Sophie Blinston, 6 Alderson avenue, has been listed as killed in action by the navy department. The report is based on investigations made since Sept. 30, 1942, when he was reported missing, according to official notice received by the mother.
Mr. Blinston was a radioman third class, and was serving on a submarine in the Aleutian theater of war at the time he was reported missing.
He was born Aug. 14, 1918, at the M A Bar ranch near Ryegate. In 1922 the family moved to Billings, where the son attended school and was graduated in 1936 from Billings high school. He was employed by the local Dun & Bradstreet office for a year. After a term at the Minnesota School of Business in Minneapolis, he was affiliated with Dun & Bradstreet in Great Falls.
In October 1940 Mr. Blinston enlisted in the naval reserve and was called to active duty June 1941.
Surviving beside the mother are a half brother, Leslie Blinston of Chicago, and a half sister, Mrs. Iva Anmundson, of Minneapolis. The father, Walter Blinston, died in Billings in 1936.
Crew member on the Grunion (SS-216) 7/30/1942 Imploded after Losing Depth Control off Aleutian Islands