My WWII Service Story

I was in high school when the rumors of war began to spread. We all knew it was our duty, to ourselves, to our families, to our communities, to our country, to serve the cause of democracy and restore peace to a shattered war-torn world. I had to wait until my 18th birthday, in May of 1943, but by July I was able to begin serving in the Navy. The unparalleled global violence, death, and destruction that followed involved countless millions of individual lives, each with a harrowing story to tell. This book tells my WWII story, but in the telling it is apparent that it took everyone pulling together, each providing a unique and valuable service, to finally defeat the forces of tyranny and restore peace and democracy to the Western world. My name is John Fecondo.