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 | | Receiving his commission as Ensign in June of 1938, Commander Conrad was assigned to the USS OMAHA, (CL 4), where he performed the general duties assigned to junior officers, as the OMAHA cruised the waters of the Mediterranean for a period of two years. |
 | | When the USS HAKE (SS 256) was commissioned in the fall of 1942, Cdr Conrad found himself aboard as Engineering Officer, and during the HAKES wartime patrols in the European and Southwest Pacific Areas, he again filled the berth of Executive Officer. |
 | | Serving as a seaman aboard the USS ARTIC, (AF 7), he was spared the terror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, as the ARTIC cleared her assigend berth nineteen hours befoe another ship, the USS OGLALA, (AM 4) was sunk while moored at the berth previously occupied by the ARTIC. |
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