Orville O. Schochow

Orville O. Schochow enlisted in the Navy on June 15, 1942. Home of entry: Virginia, Minnesota. 

He served as a Chief Pharmacist's Mate assigned to the Marine Corps with the Third Battalion of the 21st Marine Regiment of the Third Marine Division in the Fleet Marine Force at Bougainville, Guam, Guadalcanal and at Naval hospitals in the continental United States.

He was honorably discharged on November 17, 1945, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Source:  Hometown Heroes: The Saint Louis County World War II Project, 284.

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