For 22 years, Englewood man served as Navy yeoman around the world
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In this old scrapbook picture, Yeoman 3rd Class Granville Pennypacker is pictured shortly after he arrived in Hawaii in 1947 to begin his 22-year military career.
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Pennypecker relaxes on Waikiki Beach. In the background is Diamond Head.
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Granville Pennypacker today, at 83.
From the end of World War II, through the Korean War of the 1950s and halfway into the Vietnam War, late in the 1960s, Granville Pennypacker served as a yeoman, a Navy administrator, in strategic hot spots around the world.
“I joined the Navy in 1946 at 17, before I graduated from high school, took five weeks of boot camp and signed up for Submarine School at Pearl Harbor,” said the 83-year-old former sailor, who now lives in Englewood. “I went to work on Admiral Watkins’ administrative staff at Com Sub Pack in Pearl at the time.
