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S'i'dIm-aci:*•:(ai:wnlor tiif Athcns-Berlin road toBobby Olivo, Veteran Of Extensive ervice With The Navy, Training | In Naval Aerial Gunnery School• c:nI?Ti•aimilt;;!lt;•':«!•inI lt;w C.:.iFVw;w,hrinI 11. E. iHiibhy' Olive Jr.. 21-year- equipped with TBFs me', her and | i»kl son of Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Olive, ft they mailed again. The Hu/uvi \ :\i! u-lH. Is allriKtiDK Naval Ai-rinl Ciu.i- ‘TUiw in-1 ....... . . elmifd Jtim.s ai J.i;» reminded is-f«*b ,,li» lands and .he Imuliiw ol M.irhlesiK*ry Is Hie hrsl duty in the N;.\y ou 0|M. ,Wll ls|„m|N t|U. Uisk Unifier (il the American Defense force «! wlinli ihe Hi'rnei was a ribbon. .lie American area ribbon l,iUt tc^ik pat. in th*' ihiri-'d.iv ae*;u.(I tin- AMiiU'i Pacific ribbun wiili ’I1' :u caii.lt;l|illt;;1.iil The. c:.mlt;. f-spriu. rianiu. New Caledonia and nine Mars. Olive also wears the f,u. Hlt;ilw, mlt;,t ,u.v ^ ;U S;ilU;|Good Conduct ribbon and Torpedo eruz. Bob and his mates were in i Eight Presidential Citation. .lie water on rafts lor twa or liner| lie enlisted in February. 1940. hours before Uiey were puked up i alter intending school hcie. After t by il destroyer.I boot training at San Diego, he went j He was taken back n» New Calo j aboard the USS Argonne. hl that .doir.a and was assigned to ihr Tor-' time Clanship of the base force at podo Eight Detachment abdurd the j Pearl Ilarbor. I Sara; op a. He served about u yearAfter 18 months duty at Pearl »»d “ half on thf‘ Saratoga. during j Harbor he was transferred to Tor-iwhlch ho RHW SCV(‘ral ,nlnor i pedo Eight Squadron which was;menu* and made his second class I being formed at Norfolk. Va., andiftHiHf- Tho SHfuLoga took u writhe complement was assigned to!l*d° lilt from a sub and returned ! the U.S.S. Hornet, commissioned . *n Pearl Harbor for repairs.! just prior to Dec. 7, 1041. 1 Olive was assigned duty at NAS! -I was standing a security bomb Dallas and spent about (1 months : sight watch when I was firs, told there In the cadet gunnery program |of the Jap raid at Pearl Harbor,as instructor. He volunteered for and at first I Just couldn't believe.oortal gunnery training and was it:1 he recalls. ,assigned to duty under training at:Bob made third class aboard the NAGS. letHornet April I.* 1942. while on the | Orlt;lin«n^J) Olive has this to m way to Toklo with the B-25 Squad say of the aerial gunner. “Aerial I under Jimmie Doolittle. j gunnery Is the best duty In the Na- EjAfter the Tonyo raid, the Hornet vy and I sincerely apprcciute the m returned to Pearl Harbor and was training I am receiving- If 1 could' a then ordered to Midway; It was have had this training four years nt til ere that the famous Torpedo[ago I would have been capable of.lt;i Eight Squadron-was lost. The York- giving much better service to myjtl town and the Blue were lost and country. My advice to student* here ra the Japs lost some four carriers. Is to really boar down and get b* two cruisers, twb destroyers and [every bit of information every last;several transports were beached. jblt of trfliulng possible because IWhen the Hornet reached Pearl, theyic going to neeij it when they \ Hurbor again, a new Torpedo Bight;get out to the floet.” |'‘7II1inpint
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Del Rio News Herald
Del Rio, Texas, US
Sun, Sep 10, 1944
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