Motor Machinist Mate First Class Hugh A. Smalling joined the Navy in 1938 to discover other lands and people. During World War II Hugh’s ship, the U.S.S. Nausett, was sunk by German fire off the shores of Italy. Hugh’s body was never recovered, but his father always held out hope that Hugh, the adored youngest of nine children, might have survived the explosion. Hugh’s father, Charles Robert Smalling (1880-1964) established the contracting company which built the Grand Opera House on Mulberry Street.
(1919-1943) (Honeysuckle, lot 3, row C24)
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