Tony Schatz, 2007 (Interviewed by Randall Barrett)
- Branch: United States Navy
- Military Service: September 23, 1942 - October 1945
- Highest Rank: BM 1st Class
Listen to the following sections by scrolling forward to the timecode.
:45 - Training
1:30 - Time on USS Block Island (aircraft carrier); looking for submarines, took three torpedoes, abandon ship, swim through gas, the ship sank, thirty-day survival leave
6:03 - New ship, suicide planes, liberated prisoners, point system to go home (discharged)
9:53 - What learned from the war
Anthony "Tony" Schatz Obituary
This story was recorded at an SDPB event in Madison, SD.