From the Dec. 31, 2014, Chicago Tribune.
ROBERT D. TUNNICLIFF (1924-2014) Died Nov. 21, 2014.
Longtime resident of Libertyville, Illinois, and athletic director and football coach at Libertyville High School. Born in Burwell, Nebraska and moved to Kewanee, Illinois, about 50 miles southeast of the Quad Cities.
Graduated high school in 1942 and attended Monmouth College for two weeks before deciding to enlist in the Navy. Served for more than three years on the destroyer USS Lansdowne, which U.S. officials used to ferry Japanese emissaries to the battleship USS Missouri for the surrender ceremony in 1945.
After the war he married Bette Seyller in 1952 and attended Western Illinois University for a year then graduated from Northwestern University under the G.I. Bill.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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