Abrahams, E. Allen

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Allen E. Abrahams

Allen Ethan Abrahams was born on November 6, 1926, in Ithaca, New York, his father, Howard, was 22 and his mother, Florence, was 22. In Rye his family lived at 56 Linden Street.

Allen enlisted March 26, 1944 in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He served as an officer aboard the USS Spangler. USS Spangler (DE-696) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy.

Spangler’s base of operations was in Guam in 1945. She was assigned to escort duty on the Guam-Ulithi supply route and the additional duty of hunter-killer operations. Over the next three months, she escorted and patrolled as a part of the Marianas-Iwo Jima air-sea rescue unit. From 26 April to 27 May, she served as station ship at Saipan; then she returned to her screening station off Guam until the end of World War II. (See Discharge Record)

Abrahams Commissioned Ensign

Allen Abrahams, apprentice seaman, has been commissioned an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve, assigned to the Newport Naval Base. Newport, R. I. He is the 19 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Abrahams of 56 Linden Street, who have resided in Rye for the past thirty-two years.

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Allen was honorably discharged on August 3,1946. He married Lillian Elaine Sieber on February 4, 1949, in District of Columbia. They had two children during their marriage. According to the 1950 census the young couple were living in Chillum, MD and Allen was a chemistry fellow at the University of Maryland.