Gustavus Ide World War II Natick Veterans Oral History Project
Channel: natvets1
Date: 2011-03-09

Ide enlisted in the Navy as an ensign in WWII, and was assigned to the USS Glennon. Initially, the Glennon escorted tankers to Gibraltar and Algiers from Texas, and in 1943, the Glennon escorted convoys between Sicily and North Africa and back to the States. When the USS Murphy was hit, the Glennon returned survivors to New York. the Glennon was sunk off Utah Beach on the Normandy coast; after the war, Ide made it a point to research the whereabouts of 25 of his crew who were killed.