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- From Supreme Sacrifice, Extraordinary Service: Profiles of SDSU Military Alumni by Robert Fikes, Jr, San Diego State University, 2009
Pharmacist?s Mate 2c Leo P. Volz Jr. (USN) was killed in action on August 21, 1943. It was only natural that he wound up distributing medicines since his father owned two drugstores in San Diego. He had attended San Diego State during the 1938-39 academic year. He later attended the University of Southern California where he majored in philosophy and was memorialized in the school?s 1944 yearbook.
from The San Diego Union, 11 Sept 1943 (genealogybank.com)
ONE SAN DIEGAN REPORTED KILLED
One San Diegan was reported as dead and another as missing on a casualty list containing 24 names released yesterday by the navy department, The Associated Press reported from Washington, D.C. Leo Peter Volz jr., 25, pharmacist's mate 2c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo P. Volz, of 968 Rosecrans st., is dead. Volz was a native of Los Angeles and had resided in San Diego for 17 years. He attended grammar school, San Diego High school and State college here going on to U.S.C., where, as a a student of pharmacy, he was a member of Phi Dela Chi fraternity. Volz joined the service Feb. 8, 1942, and had been on active duty in the South Pacific.
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1918 - 1943 (~ 25 years)
Leo Peter Volz, b. 25 Apr 1895, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI