I am needing help with some of the information I have recieved concerning my grandfathers duties in WW2. Any help would be Great.
1. What is a AS S2c rank?
2. Does USNR mean he was in the reserves?
3. What does a V6 code mean as a job classification?
4. USS Praire (AD 15) is this a ship he was on during a tour?
5. USNATADC Williamsburgh Va., Is this a Naval Base?
6. What does this mean? (SOP Ser Upon Ten Nay #3011.)
7. What does a Seamen second class arm patch look like?
8. Who do I contact to see if he is entitled to any ribbons or medals?

Thanks to everyone for any possible help in this matter. I thank you., His son, my father thanks you, and his wife, my Grandma thanks you. God Bless WWII Veteran.

2. Yes. But I believe during the war, many people were in as USNR, but did the same things as everyone else.
3. Don't know about Job, but I did find: a person who volunteer in ww2 a v6 was you volunteered and they had to discharge you by six months after the war was over

8. The record center in St Louis see: http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-recor...service-records.html

4. Put USS Prairie (AD 15) in GOOGLE, and you will find a truckload of info.

I'll see what I can find on the other stuff, and I'm sure some other guys will come up with a lot of things too. If you have any pictures, or other info, or other questions, fire away!

1. AS - Apprentice Seaman
S2c - Seaman second class
S1c - Seaman first class


Depanding on when assigned to USS Prairie, these WW2 medals are listed as being awarded to Prairie;

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4.Prairie AD-15



A grassland.



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(AD–15: dp. 16,500 l. 530’6”; b. 73’4”; dr. 24’5”; s. 18 k.; cpl. 1,698; a. 45”, 4 40mm.; cl. Dixie)



The second Prairie, a destroyer tender, was laid down 7 December 1938 by New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.; launched 9 December 1939; sponsored by Mrs. Samuel M. Robinson; and commissioned 5 August 1940, Capt. J. B. W. Waller in command.



Prior to U.S. entry into World War II, Prairie cruised between Atlantic ports from Colon, C.Z. to Argentia, Newfoundland. She was docked at Argentia, tending Allied ships, on 7 December 1941 as the first direct blows of World War II struck the United States.



A floating workshop for American and other Allied destroyers, Prairie was “mother ship” to a squadron of destroyers at Argentia, the Atlantic terminus of the transatlantic convoy route. A fire from Spry (PG–64), secured astern of Prairie, spread to the tender 29 May 1942 and caused extensive damage. After repairing at Boston, Prairie returned to Argentia. On 22 February 1943, U.S. Coast Guard cutter Campbell (WPG–32) was rammed during an engagement with a German submarine; complete overhaul was provided by Prairie, and Campbell sailed to the United States 27 May.



Departing Argentia 2:3 September, Prairie steamed to Boston, and on to Pearl Harbor in November, to remain until February 1944. She departed Pearl Harbor 7 February to move with advancing forces in operations against the Marshall Islands. Lying in sheltered waters, Prairie tended destroyers throughout the remainder of the war. Majuro Atoll had been secured 7 February, and Prairie arrived there the 13th, to remain at this advantageous point for mobile supply during the costly campaign for Tarawa. Departing Majuro 3 June, she steamed to Eniwetok, where she was while fighting progressed in the Marianas and Carolines. Reporting to Ulithi 8 October, Prairie was there at war’s end and remained until 1 October 1945, when she steamed to Tokyo Bay. On 30 November she steamed home to San Francisco.