Charles Danny Looper was born August 21 1920 in Greenwood, Sebastian Co., Ar. to Bugs & Ruth Needham Looper. April 16, 1942 he married Marie Wanda Warlick of Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Ar. Charles lived in Greenwood at this time. Charles enlisted in the US Navy October 5, 1942 and served until November 21, 1945. On November 30, 1943 he is found on a Navy muster roll at the Construction Battalions Naval Construction Training Center Camp Peary, Williamsburg, Virginia. His rank was Fireman 1st class. His enlistment had been at Little Rock, Arkansas. He had transferred to the Training Center at Camp Peary on November 27, 1943. At the outset of the War, the preliminary training of the Seabees had been carried out at Naval Training Stations across the country. That lasted a short period until boot training was consolidated at Camp Allen Virginia. Camp Allen was replaced by Camp Bradford which in turn was replaced by Camp Peary. The initial Seabee recruits of WWII were men who built Boulder Dam, America's highways and New York City skyscrapers. At Naval Construction Training Center Peary, Seabees were taught basic military order, discipline, weaponry, stevedoring, and construction trades. The Camp opened in November 3rd of 1942 with the 36th CB the first to train there while the first organized there was the 61st CB. Another 100,000 men would go through the camp before training there ceased in June of 1944. During that period the Seabees established over 60 trade schools on the base. In June of 1943 the dynamite and demolition school opened. Some of its first graduates included the first six classes of Seabee volunteers for the Naval Combat Demolition Units. After June 1944 Seabee boot camp was moved to Camp Endicott, Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Charles served with the US Navy until November 21, 1945. He passed away July 31, 1971 at Tulsa, Oklahoma.