Fresh out of boot camp, 18-year-old Tony Inzerillo of Chicago went aboard the submarine USS Thornback as a mechanic very late in World War II. He and the sub he served on made one combat mission a few weeks before war's end. Photo provided
Tony Inzerillo of Seminole Lakes subdivision, south of Punta Gorda, Fla. almost missed World War II. He and the rest of the crew of the submarine USS Thornback, SS-418, made one combat cruise off the coast of mainland Japan a month before the Japanese unconditionally surrendered ending the Second World War.
