SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — They’re often called the greatest generation. We’re talking about World War II veterans.
Memories of World War II are disappearing each and every day because the men and women who fought in that war are now in their 90s or older. Preserving the stories of the men and women who served in World War II is more important now than ever before.
“We were fighting two wars, one in Europe the other in the South Pacific,” World War II veteran Doug Starr said.
Starr is now 99 years old and served two years in the South Pacific on a destroyer, called the Nicholas.
Starr says everything from the kitchen to the bathrooms to the bunk beds, the living quarters were tight.
Starr has written down his memoirs in this book titled ‘Sea Stories Worth Reading.’ That’s him on the cover when he first joined the Navy at age 17.
Starr was involved in numerous battles in his 21 months aboard the Nicholas taking over islands in the South Pacific that were controlled by the Japanese.