Francis Fabian oral history transcription

Fabian discusses his youth in Revere, MA, during the Great Depression, his joining the Navy in 1940, training in communications at Noroton Heights, CT, assignment in the USS Yorktown in Radio Central, the Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942, the Battle of Midway, attempts to recue the ship and its subsequent sinking, 1942, assignment to the USS Block Island in the Atlantic, then sunk off the Azores, assigned to the second Block Island and Battle of Okinawa, repatriating prisoners from the Bataan Death March, discharged from the Navy October 1945 as a chief petty officer, postwar occupation with the Massachusetts Electric and the Bradford Dye Works.