Alexander Frank Zache
Electrician's Mate, Second Class
Alexander Frank Zache
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Alex Zache graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1916 with a degree in journalism. He went on to work for the Meyer News Service, the Milwaukee Sentinel, and the Milwaukee Journal as state editor.
He enlisted into the Navy’s radio service at Great Lakes, Illinois during January 1918. He completed his training at Harvard University and was rated an Electrician’s Mate, 2nd Class.
About ten days before his passing, he was assigned to the USS Minnesota (BB-22) at Philadelphia.
He wrote this letter on Thanksgiving, 1918:
“In journeying here from Boston, our party had the good fortune to make the trip from Providence, R.I., to New York City via boat. Since you yourself have marveled at the splendor of of New York harbor and stood enchanted at the magnificence of the Statue of Liberty, I have only to suggest what an impression we gained as we steamed in about sunrise, the statue and the sky line of the mammoth sky scrapers gradually emerging out of the blue and gold mist of day break.”
He died at the US Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, Penn., from lobar pneumonia on Dec. 4, 1918.
Alex was described as “a young man of unusual intelligence and had a promising future before him not only in the naval service of our country, but also in the profession of journalism.”