Paul W. Sites
1927-2021


Paul W. Sites was born May 12, 1927 in Booneville, Logan County, Arkansas to James Hawley & Jimmer Cauthan Sites. December 27, 1948 he married Jo Ann Rankin at Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Ar. where they both resided.

No draft or enlistment records have been found for his service. Several Navy muster rolls are at the bottom of this page for him in WWII in 1945-1947.
"For SVB purposes, you are a World War II veteran if you Served in the active military, naval or air service of the United States during World War II at any time during the period beginning on September 16, 1940 and ending on July 24, 1947."<


Paul W. Sites passed away September 25, 2021 at Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Ar. His burial was in the Fort Smith National Cemetery there.





October 31, 2021
Times Record
Fort Smith, Arkansas


The U.S. Navy attack transport USS Cortland (APA-75) stands toward Pearl Harbor, T.H., on 1 March 1946

From Wikipedia
USS Cortland (APA-75) was a Gilliam-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. Commissioned late in the war, she was initially assigned to transport duties and consequently did not participate in combat operations.

Training and transport duties
Cortland completed her outfit and shakedown uneventfully and sailed to Seattle to embark Army troops, clearing 1 March for training operations in the Hawaiian Islands. She returned to San Francisco on 4 June for repairs, then embarked Army troops at Seattle and sailed 24 June for Okinawa where she disembarked her passengers and cargo 12 August.

After hostilities
She put out from Okinawa 26 September 1945 to land Marines at Tientsin for the reoccupation of northern China, then sailed by way of Manila to lift Chinese troops from Hong Kong to Chinwangtao and Tsingtao for the reoccupation of Manchuria, in two voyages between 25 October and 25 November.

Arriving at Sasebo 30 November, Cortland embarked homeward-bound troops and sailed 7 December for San Diego, arriving 23 December for overall.

Operation Crossroads
Cortland carried Marines from the Hawaiians to San Diego between 19 January and 4 February 1946, then sailed from San Pedro 24 February to operate under JTF-1 in Operation Crossroads, the atomic weapons tests in the Marshalls. Returning to San Francisco 13 September, she remained there until 5 November when she sailed for New York and Norfolk, where she arrived 5 December.