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Chris Genovese served aboard the destroyer USS Rodman during WWII

In U.S. Navy, World War II on August 13, 2012 at 4:38 am

Radioman 3rd Class Chris Genovese of Port Charlotte, Fla. is pictured in his early 20s after getting out of boot camp during World War II. Photo provided

By the time Radioman 3rd Class Chris Genovese and his destroyer, the USS Rodman, reached Okinawa during the closing months of World War II, the ship had taken part in the D-Day invasion, shot down a German JU-88 bomber, 15 Japanese kamikazes, sunk a German submarine during the invasion of Southern France, and escorted President Franklin Roosevelt to the Yalta Conference. Read the rest of this entry »

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He took President Roosevelt to Malta to Attend the Conference at Yalta

In U.S. Navy, World War II on March 30, 2011 at 4:38 am
Angelo Marinelli is the swabbie in the center.  He and his buddies had just dropped FDR off at Malta and were touring the island on a sunny Sunday. President Roosevelt met with Egyptian King Farouk  aboard the USS Quincy in July 1944. Photo provided

Boatswain’s mate Angelo Marinelli knew something big was up when a bathtub was brought aboard his ship, the heavy cruiser USS Quincy, in December 1944 while it was moored at the Boston Navy  Yard. Read the rest of this entry »

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South Pacific romance – Love letters sustain WWII couple

In U.S. Navy, World War II on March 16, 2011 at 4:38 am

At 20 Pfc. Hudson Turner from Greenwich, Conn. has his sights set on his future wife, Betty, whom he married in New Zealand shortly after World War II. Photo provided

His story could have been a page out of “South Pacific,” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit musical set in the Solomon Islands during World War II.

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Dave Schmidt joined Navy at 15 and took FDR to Yalta aboard Quincy

In Navy, World War II on September 10, 2010 at 4:38 am

Dave Schmidt of Port Charlotte, Fla. is shown in front of a map covered with pins and colored strings noting the voyages he made aboard the USS Memphis and the USS Quincy in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II. Sun photo by Don Moore

Dave Schmidt joined the Navy at 15, before World War II. He was a big boy for his age – 5-ft., 6-inches tall and 215-pounds.

“I was an out of control kid. My parents both worked and they decided the Navy was the best thing to straighten me out. They told the Navy recruiter my birth certificate was lost in a fire and I was 17-years-old,” the 86-year-old Port Charlotte man recalled almost seven decades later.

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