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OH 1661

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeTORRES, Ralph (b. 1924)
Military ServiceU.S. Navy WWII Veteran

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 1661
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionFor 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 Description53 pp.
Terms of UseOpen