Patrick Yearly

My Life As a Sailor Patrick Yearly

At 17, Fran Yearly enlisted in the Navy. In the following three years he would serve on 3 destroyers; sail 75,000miles; visit 29 ports of call from Casablanca to Pearl Harbor and sail on nearly every ocean and sea in the world. His ship was in the front line of attack on D-Day and the invasion of the Phillipines and was struck by German torpedoes and Japanese kamikaze planes. He received an honorable discharge in February 1946, six weeks before his 21stbirthday.