Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15, USS Randolph, USS Noble. His experiences as a PT boat skipper in the North African and European Theaters and various other duties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early naval career, 1941-42; assignment to the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Center, Melville, Rhode Island, October, 1942; association with future President John F. Kennedy at Melville; assignment to PT Squadron 15, 1942; appointment as skipper of PT-207; combined operations with British patrol-torpedo boats out of Bône, Algeria, 1943; move to Bizerte, Tunisia, and operations around Sicily and screening the landing force, 1943; move to Palermo, Sicily, and operations off the west coast of Italy, 1943; invasion of Italy at Salerno and screening the landing force, 1943; operations out of La Maddalena, 1943; operations from Bastia, Corsica, 1943; operations with OSS operatives in southern France and northwestern Italy, 1944; return to the U.S., 1944; assignment to the aircraft carrier USS Randolph as assistant gunnery officer, 1944; assignment to the APA USS Noble, 1945; operations off Okinawa, 1945; liberation of American and Allied POWs in Korea, 1945.