The Rotary Club of Enfield is honoring Enfield’s veterans by sponsoring military tribute banners that will be displayed in Higgins Park, the Town Green, Freshwater Walkway, North Main Street and Hazardville between Memorial Day and Veterans Day in 2026 and 2027. The Enfield Public Library partnered with Enfield Rotary to preserve digital versions of these banners as well as biographical information about each veteran.
warren c. ryan
United States navy 1942-1945
world war ii
chief petty officer
Warren joined the United States Navy after Pearl Harbor and married his wife, Lucille, at the US Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, NJ prior to his deployment.
He was an Aviation Chief Radioman on blimps and was part of the Fleet Airship Wing 30, a Lighter-Than-Air unit that managed anti-submarine patrol blimps in the Atlantic. These blimps patrolled to prevent U-boat attacks and escorted destroyers out to sea.
Warren served in Airship Patrol Squadrons 42, 41, 22 and 21, with most of his time spent based in Brazil at Sao Luiz and Maceió.
After the war, Warren returned to upstate New York and worked for the New York Central Railroad as a dispatcher for many years. He and his family later relocated to Hartford and then Enfield.
Warren’s passion became helping other recovering alcoholics and he founded and ran, Warren House in Warehouse Point, an alcoholic and drug rehabilitation center for many years until his retirement.
Warren had two adult children and four grandchildren when he passed away in 1974.
