I joined the navy at the age of seventeen. In three months, I found myself in New Guinea and the Philippines for eighteen months. I was a gunner’s mate 3/c on PT Boat 225, Squadron 17. My story, Ma...view moreI joined the navy at the age of seventeen. In three months, I found myself in New Guinea and the Philippines for eighteen months. I was a gunner’s mate 3/c on PT Boat 225, Squadron 17. My story, Manila Gold, begins in 1941, a week after Pearl Harbor and just days before the Japs invaded the Philippines.view less