Raymond Diehl

Raymond Diehl was born in Quarantine, North Dakota in 1922. He and his family ended up in Kenosha, Wisconsin where he graduated from high school in 1939. In the fall of 1940, Raymond signed up with the Navy ROTC where he graduated from in October of 1943. His first assignment was the USS Quincy; the ship was commissioned out on December 15th, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts. By late April of 1944, the crew found themselves arriving in Belfast, Ireland. His ship participated in bombardments at Utah Beach and Cherbourg in Normandy, and Toulon in southern France. The ship then returned to the US to take President Roosevelt as far as Egypt on his journey to the Yalta Conference in early 1945. After that, Raymond was transferred to the USS Ulysses after spending two and a half years on the USS Quincy. Raymond was sent to San Francisco, California where he was then discharged.