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Pearl Harbor spurred Rinella to Navy service in 1943
The Marion veteran recalls the immediate war surge after Pearl Harbor, enlisting June 17, 1943. He trained at Great Lakes and Chicago radio school, served on USS Wyoming and USS New York, and witnessed atomic bomb secrecy before convoy duty in the Atlantic. He later returned home, reflecting on changed attitudes toward Japan.
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