Stanley W. Narusis
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Stanley W. Narusis |
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Video URL |
http://www.screencast.com/t/eRIpVp1i0K |
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Subject |
World War II
War
Soldiers
Veterans |
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Description |
Color; 110 minutes, 15 seconds. Stanley Naursis was born in Franklin County, Illinois, on January 10, 1923. His parents, John and Connie, were immigrants. His father came from Lithuania to work in the Illinois coal mines near West Frankfort, Illinois, and his mother made the journey from Poland to Illinois alone to live with relatives. They met and married in Franklin County, Illinois, and had one daughter and four sons. During his teen years, Stanley worked in a local orchard picking apples for 15 cents an hour when he was 13 and 14, and spent a year in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Wyoming before he was 18. While he was working for the Curtis Candy Company in North Chicago for $27 a week, the news came of the Pearl Harbor attack. An older brother who was serving on the U.S.S. Maryland survived the attack. Stan enlisted in the Army Air Corps on March 17, 1942. He trained to be a radio operator at Scott Field, and was initially on the flight crew in a B-17 and a B-24 in Arizona and Utah. During an inspection, an officer told him that he could no longer be on a flight crew because he wore glasses. He was then assigned to be the radio operator of the ground crew for the same unit. His unit shipped overseas from San Francisco, and had brief stays in Melbourne, Australia, and Bombay and Karachi, India. They entered China through India, and were responsible for patrolling 100 miles of the Chinese shore and some flights over Burma. The radio shack was staffed 24 hours a day. His original B-24 crew all died in combat over Rangoon and Hanoi. The ground crew was getting ready to watch a movie on the base when it was announced that the War was over. They were transported to Calcutta to wait for three weeks until a ship was available to take them back to the States. He returned home via Ceylon, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, New York, then by train to Illinois. He was demobilized in Rockford, then went to Southern Illinois University on the GI Bill. It paid $65 a month plus tuition to those who attended college. In 1947, he spent the summer hitchhiking the eastern states to visit war buddies in Indiana, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Georgia. He earned a law degree from St. Louis University, and passed the bar exam in both Missouri and Illinois. He spent 15 years in Chicago as a lawyer and another 15 years back in southern Illinois raising cattle. He went to Lithuania and Poland in 1987 with one of his brothers to look for extended family. One of his daughters is Linda Ruoff, who was a long-time employee of Bellevue University. |
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Creator |
Bellevue University |
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Contributors |
Narusis, Stanley; Stites, Del |
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Publisher |
Bellevue University |
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Date |
June 6, 2005 |
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Type |
video |
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Format |
video/mp4 |
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Language |
English language |
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Rights |
Copyright to this resource is held by Bellevue University and is provided here for educational purposes only. |
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Source |
SPEC COLL D 811 N378 2005 |
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