Patti World War II veteran U.S. Navy Natick Veterans Oral History Project
Channel: natvets1
Date: 2014-03-19

John Patti was born and raised in Framingham. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1942 because he "didn't want to dig foxholes." Patti would do three tours of duty, all in the Pacific Theater, and would leave the Navy as a engineman 1st class. He was present during the battle of Okinawa, and his ship was the first to land occupation troops onto Japan.