Robert W. Thomson

Robert Wilfred Thomson, (1920-1973) (RWT) grew up in his father's horse and guiding business, attended Mesa College (on Basketball team), then Colorado College (now Colorado State University) and left college some months after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pear Harbor, joining the US Navy. RWT, was a junior officer in the Navy, and was on the USS Block Island, a small aircraft carrier when it was sunk by Nazi U-boats on May 31, 1944, the only US carrier sunk in the Atlantic theater of the war....See more

Robert Wilfred Thomson, (1920-1973) (RWT) grew up in his father's horse and guiding business, attended Mesa College (on Basketball team), then Colorado College (now Colorado State University) and left college some months after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pear Harbor, joining the US Navy. RWT, was a junior officer in the Navy, and was on the USS Block Island, a small aircraft carrier when it was sunk by Nazi U-boats on May 31, 1944, the only US carrier sunk in the Atlantic theater of the war. He (and most of crew) survived, and stayed in the Navy as a reserve officer until late 1950s. Even during his active duty years, he would use his 30 day annual vacation to continue running hunting camps in Colorado. In the early 1960s, he and his wife founded the Colorado Café, a restaurant and sporting goods store in Woodbine, NJ, and all through the 1960s continued his Colorado hunting camp business, moving back to Colorado around 1969 (and a new restaurant in Glenwood Springs CO), culminating in that last hunt in the fall of 1972. RWT passed away in 1973. See less