Upon graduating from high school, following his brother’s lead, in October of 1944 Albert enlisted in the U.S. Navy at age 18. He served in World War II from 1944 to 1946 as a Radioman handling ship to shore confidential communications in Morse code on the USS Noble, an attack transport ship whose primary mission was to transport to combat area beaches in the Pacific Theater, including Okinawa in 1945, up to 5,000 infantrymen and some of the material necessary for an assault on enemy forces and positions. After discharging troops and equipment, the Noble and her crew evacuated Allied casualties and prisoners of war. After the war, the Noble also participated in Operation Magic Carpet, returning servicemen home from the Pacific. The GI Bill assisted Albert in attaining an electrical engineering degree from Georgia Tech University which qualified him for a career with Sperry Rand designing military systems including radar, gyroscopes and inertial navigation systems and later systems used on Apollo 11’s lunar lander. Albert is 93 years old, resides in Hicksville, New York, but receives his medical care at Hoag, as he spends part of the year with his daughter June Vinci and her family here in Orange County. Dr. Anthony Caffarelli has been his cardiac surgeon and Dr. Robert Gorab replaced both his knees.