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Updated: 07/24/2012 01:16:08PM
Ted Sivyer served aboard destroyers in WWII
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This was Ted Sivyer at 17 when he graduated from boot camp in 1941. He served as an antiaircraft gunner aboard the USS Butler and the USS Hamilton during World War II.
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Ted Sivyer manned a 20-mm antiaircraft gun on two destroyers, one during the invasion of Sicily and North Africa and the other at Iwo Jima and Okinawa in World War II.
He joined the Navy at 17. By the time he went to sea, the Second World War was just getting started.
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