Fire Control Aboard an Attack Transport in the Pacific: John DeBarber’s Navy WWII Memoir

By John DeBarber

Peter DeBarber recently sent us this brief memoir of his WWII Navy veteran father, John DeBarber. Like many veterans of World War II, John left behind only a modest written account of his service. The few pages capture his journey from a high school student worried about being drafted to a Navy fire controlman in the Pacific, before serving aboard a destroyer in postwar…