Help with finding out more about my great grandfather’s service in the US Navy during WW2

[ThatHistoryGuy]

My great grandfather Charles Ollin Stalnaker (1927-2021) was a veteran of the 2nd World War. He served on the USS Boise from late 1944 until the decommissioning of the Boise in 1946 when he went to a repair ship called the USS Askari until his discharge in 1947. His son (my grandfather) can’t find his records because of his piles of crap in his office room so I was wondering if by chance any of you can maybe find a muster role or something. Also it will say on most documents that he was born in 1925 because he lied about his age to get in. Any information helps!

[Edelweisse]

See attached info so far

[ThatHistoryGuy]

UPDATE: I got a friend of mine and he found all sorts of stuff!!

[aerialbridge]

Is the soldier in the photo your great-great uncle, aka, your g-grandfather's bro?  If you have the dough,  you might want to one day consider contacting Geoff at Golden Arrow Research.   Check out his website.  Unless this lousy inflation has forced him to raise prices, his price to copy the complete  Navy personnel file for your ancestor at NARA in St. Louis is $70.   You'll get every page scanned in full color high resolution and sent to you as a PDF. including the key DD Form 214, Discharge Papers and Separation Documents that will list all ships and stations he was attached to, as well as what service medals including campaign stars he earned.

[ThatHistoryGuy]

Just now, aerialbridge said:

Is the soldier in the photo your great-great uncle, aka, your g-grandfather's bro?

The other guy in the photo is actually his uncle (they were 3 years apart😬) Cecil who worked at NY harbor. When my g-grandfather came back from being overseas his ship went into NY harbor for Navy Day and while he was on leave saw him.

[ThatHistoryGuy]

His brothers Bob and Russ both served in the Army as infantrymen and were both wounded. Bob I believe was wounded at Guadalcanal.

[aerialbridge]

Thats some good family military legacy.  My avatar here is my WWI USN Radioman 2nd class grampa, who was a rail road telegrapher with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific RR  "Milwaukee Road" before he volunteered for the Navy, which sent him to the USN Radio School at Harvard, and his older brother,  my great uncle,  who was a dough-boy overseas in the Great War.  I ordered my grampa's Navy personnel file from NARA years ago.  Seventy bucks well spent.  Another of my grampa's brothers enlisted in the Army and was a PFC with the 2nd Division, 23rd Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Company K.  He died 50 years ago after a long life and his VA headstone shows he was awarded the Purple Heart, but his records were lost in the fire at NARA, ironically in 1973 the same year he died.   He died on June 8, the NARA fire that wiped out much of the Army's personnel  records was on July 12, 1973.