Warren S. Lane was commander of a Naval Armed Guards gun crew stationed aboard the merchant ship, SS Edwin L. Godkin and served during World War II. Lane retired to Washington, N.C., in 1967 and subsequently served as executive director of the Downtown Washington Association.
Warren Spencer Lane (b. 1908) is a native of Boston, Mass., and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. During World War II, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Naval Reserves. After indoctrination at Ft. Schuyler, N.Y., he was sent to Camp Shelton, the Naval Armed Guard School in Norfolk, Va., to develop gun crews. In 1944, he received his first commission as a Naval Armed Guard commanding officer aboard a merchant ship, the SS EDWIN L. GODKIN. During the next two years he traveled to most of the Mediterranean ports and saw limited action in the Pacific. He was discharged in January 1946.
From the description of Warren S. Lane papers, 1943-1945 [manuscript]. (East Carolina University). WorldCat record id: 641611707
