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Name: Harold Clifton MOYNELO Jr.
Rank / Rating: ENS-EnsignService #: 389853 DOB: Apr 26, 1921 From: Washington, DC Parents: Harold Clifton, Sr. and Elizabeth Moynelo Went Aboard: Sep 1, 1944 Age When Ship Went Down: 24 years, 3 months, 4 days Spouse: Lilyan B. Anthony Children: Grandchildren: Bio Submitted By: Carl Fahnestock (Admin) |
 MOYNELO, Harold C Jr. |
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 Ensign Harold Clifton Moynelo, Jr., was born on April 26, 1921 in Charlotte, North Carolina. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1939. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1944.
Moynelo’s bio in “LUCKY BAG” (1945 United States Naval Academy Yearbook) presented the following key information about him:
“His main ambition was to wear a Naval Academy ring and he realized it. Also, he liked them all, blondes, brunettes, and redheads; and the feelings were mutual.”.” (1)
Harold saw service with the ship in the Carolines and in the Okinawa and Iwo Jima campaigns. Captain McVay wrote that Harold was uninjured when he landed in the water and “worked constantly to rescue men in difficulty. On several occasions he gave away his own life jacket to support other men, finally collapsing himself from exhaustion, and later he died peacefully in his sleep.”(2)
View the “Additional Photos” section below to access and read Harold’s full entry in the “LUCKY BAG” yearbook.
As a United States Naval Academy graduate who served aboard Indianapolis on that fateful last voyage, Harold joined eight other naval academy graduates who also lost their lives as a result of the July 30, 1945 sinking of the ship. The full list of Annapolis graduates who were Lost at Sea on USS Indianapolis includes:
Robert Burton Billings, Ensign
Edwin Mason Crouch, Captain
Joseph Ambrose Flynn, Commander
Robert Huntley Hurst, Lieutenant
Johns Hopkins Janney, Commander
Stanley Walter Lipski, Commander
Harold Clifton Moynelo, Jr., Ensign
Michael R. Pessolano, Lieutenant
James Douglas Spencer, Lieutenant
View the “Additional Photos” section below to see pictures and brief information on each of these nine officers. (3)
(1) LUCKY BAG Yearbook, United States Naval Academy, 1945.
(2) In Memoriam, from Woodrow Wilson High School, 1946 (via Doug Hayman ’56 via email on May 4, 2024)
(3) United States Naval Academy Virtual Memorial Hall, www.usnamemorialhall.org
(4) Purple Heart photo from poster "jmar" at usmilitariaforum.com, 2011
https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/114903-uss-indianapolis-kia-ph/#comment-856719
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