Green, Robert Urban, S2/c

(In appreciation. Your kind expression of sympathy is gratefully acknowledged and deeply appreciated.)-Front of card. Signed Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leonard Green. There is an inside note.

Dear Captain, U.S. Navy.
We want to thank you very much for your kindness to write to us about our dear son Robert Urban Green. We are so grieved over the loss of him. We sure miss him so bad. We want to have his picture & also his ship's photo in color & where he was lost at sea. Where are his everything? In his ship or camp? His youngest brother will be enlisted in Navy this winter.

Thanks,
Mrs. Green.

Green, Robert Urban,
Pers-8249-LK

October 12th, 1945.

My dear Mr. and Mrs. Green,

Your card reached me several days ago. I shall try to answer the questions which you asked.
The INDIANAPOLIS was sunk approximately 400 miles from the Philippines and 300 miles from Peleliu. All of Robert's records and personal effects went down with the ship.
A picture of Robert is not available here at the Bureau of Naval Personnel, but I have enclosed the picture of the INDIANAPOLIS, which you requested. It was taken only a few weeks before she was sunk.

In closing, may I again express my deepest sympathies.

Very sincerely.
CHAS. B. McVay, III
Captain, U.S. Navy.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Green.
1849 Washington Blvd.
Chicago, Illinois