USS HOUSTON CA 30

“The galloping Ghost of the Java Coast”

Glenn Wesley Spragle

My name is Jim Krause and I’m a nephew by marriage to Glenn Wesley Spragle. Glenn was a gunners mate on the USS Houston and went down with the ship in February 1942. Glenn had been on the Houston for a number of years, going back to at least 1938 and apparently was on board when FDR took his 1938 cruise to San Francisco.

FDR even signed his shellback certificate. I thought you might be interest in a photograph of both Glenn and the certificate.