George Enos Jr.

George Enos, Jr. was born in Boston in 1910 and was only 7 years old when his father, George Enos, was killed when the USS Ericsson was torpedoed the day after the U.S.-C.S. armistice at the end of the Great War. He went to sea as a fisherman, married, and joined the U.S. Navy during the Second Great War, seeing action around the Sandwich Islands aboard the destroyer USS Townsend. He was later transferred to the Josephus Daniels and served under Sam Carsten.