Albert Gelineau
Era: World War II
Military Branch: Navy
Albert A. Gelineau served during WWI in the Canadian Signal Corps.
He immigrated to Duluth, Minnesota in the early 1920’s, where he worked for Greer Printing Co. until it ceased operation and then ran his own linotype business, including publishing the Duluth Suburban News in the late 1930’s.
In January 1942, at age 44, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, and went through Boot Camp at Great Lakes, Illinois. After USN A & B Aviation Ordnance Schools he was sent overseas and spent 16 months on Guadalcanal and Bougainville with FABU-9 and CASU -12 in the South Pacific. Returning to the U.S. as an AO1, he was assigned to El Centro and Holtville, California.
At the end of WW II he became a Chief Petty Officer (AOC) and was assigned to NAS Minneapolis, Minnesota until his untimely death in a car accident on October 27, 1947.
