Oral history interview with Ralph Torres, 2007 November 14.

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Oral history interview with Ralph Torres, 2007 November 14.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465032679

Interview with Ralph Torres, an Navy veteran, concerning his childhood in north Fort Worth and vocational education received at Technical High School; enlistment in the U.S Navy at age seventeen; assignment to USS Rockaway, USS Wyandot, USS Paiute, and USS Florida; training missions in the Pacific Ocean; various missions to North Africa, France, Greenland, including Normandy invasions; social life in ports of call; re-enlistment in 1946; struggles with alcoholism and conversion to Pentecostal church; civilian career as a mechanic. Appendix includes a photocopies of the United States Naval Institute journal from June 2004 (six leaves) and "History of the Rockaway" (seven leaves).

55, [14] leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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