Bio: Kile, Dave (Aboard USS Canopus – 1970)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Kile

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 05 Nov 1970

Dave Kile, TA, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Kile, (Thorp, Clark Co., Wis.), is serving aboard the USS Canopus, submarine tender, stationed at Holy Loch, Scotland.

In February, Dave board the USS Canopus at Bremerton, Washington, with the ship getting underway for training at Guantanamo Bay, and assignment as relief for the USS Simon Lake as on site tender at Holy Lock, Scotland. Liberty ports at Acapulco, Mexico and Panama City, Panama were visited enroute. The shakedown cruise ended at Charleston, South Carolina to correct construction deficiencies.