| Interviewee | TORRES, Ralph (b. 1924) |
| Military Service | U.S. Navy WWII Veteran |
| Interview ID # | OH 1661 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in North Fort Worth and vocational education received at Technical High School; enlistment in U.S. Navy at age of seventeen; assignment to USS Rockaway and USS Wyandot, USS Paiute, and USS Florida; training missions in Pacific Ocean; various missions to North Africa, France, and Greenland, including Normandy invasion; social life in ports of call; re-enlistment in 1946; struggles with alcoholism and conversion to Pentecostal church; civilian career as a mechanic. |
| Interviewer(s) | Vogel Castillo |
| Physical Description | 53 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
