Irvin D. Swanson

Irvin “Ole” Swanson, son of Knute Swanson, was a native of Cook, Minnesota.

He enrolled in intensive courses at the Radio Naval Training School, Naval Armory in Indianapolis, Indiana and was first stationed in Shoemaker, California before being shipped out on a destroyer escort to the Pacific.

He wrote countless letters from California and from the ship in Iwo Jima encouraging Cook citizens to write to him.

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