Leslie Leo Oikari

Era: World War II

Military Branch: Navy

Unit Info: Naval Reserve

Leslie Leo Oikari enlisted as an Apprentice Seaman in the Naval Reserved on September 16, 1943, at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Home at entry: Chisholm, Minnesota.

He served as a Ship's Cook 2nd Class aboard the USS PCS 1455 and at various U.S. shore stations.

Mr. Oikari received a medical discharge on March 30, 1945, at the USN Hospital in Great Lakes, Illinois.

Source: Hometown Heroes: The St. Louis County World War II Project. 228.

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