Lockwood, Charles A.

Forest J. Sterling graduated from high school in Ordway, Colorado, and joined the U.S. Navy in 1930. Seven years later he left the Navy, and after traveling the country, settled in Los Angeles. When war broke out in 1941, Sterling re-enlisted in the Navy and requested duty in submarines. One year later, Forest Sterling reported aboard USS Wahoo (SS-238) as her new Yeoman. Home on leave in the summer of 1943, Forest married his wife Marie. Just minutes before she sailed on what was to be her ill-final war patrol, Sterling received transfer orders and remained behind.

After attending stenogra...