Portrait of Paul Damon Littlefield
Born June 8, 1920 in Cambridge, MA
Rank: Lieutenant (Retired as Lt. Commander). Service: US Navy. Division/Ship: USS Bancroft (Destroyer) '42 - 43, USS Whale (Submarine) '43 - 46. Theater: Aleutian Islands, Pacific. Dates of Service: 1942 - 1946.

Being 6' 3" didn't dissuade Paul Littlefield from request to be sent to submarine school. Already a seasoned naval officer, he had spent a year on the destroyer, USS Bancroft, off the Aleutian Islands. Prior to his activation, he was in the NROTC at Harvard University where he was studying History. Assigned to the USS Whale, Littlefield spent two years underwater. In that period they saved pilots who had bailed out over the Pacific and sunk several Japanese ships. He married his first wife, Emmy Neiley, in 1943 and had three children. They were married for 39 years before she died in 1982. They had summered in Glocuester since the 1950s. Following his discharge from active duty, Littlefield attended Harvard Business School, ultimately becoming the CFO of Arthur D. Little in Cambridge. Paul married Jackie Boyd, his second and current wife, in 1983 and the couple moved permanently to Gloucester in 1989.