Veteran's History Project - Marion L. Ellsworth

Marion L. Ellsworth

U.S. Navy

1940-1946

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Sidney, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

Marion Ellsworth served in the U.S. Navy for six years. In his time, the Navy was organized into three operational fleets – the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Asiatic fleets. He served in each of them.

Marion is from the Sidney Area. He graduated from Sidney High School in 1940. There were few jobs to be had in the Cheyenne Count...