# Richard 'Dick' Ramsey, U.S. Navy, D-Day, Iwo Jima, Okinawa

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Podcast: [Veterans Chronicles](https://stenobird.com/podcast/veterans-chronicles-608161)
Published: 2026-03-25T11:00:05+00:00
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Dick Ramsey's family had it tough lduring the Great Depression. He quit school when he was 15 years old and started working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a pipefitter. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he started helping to build battleships. In 1943, Ramsey joined the U.S. Navy and was assigned as coxswain on the USS Nevada . In this edition of Veterans Chronicle s, Ramsey takes us through training to the Nevada 's involvement in the D-Day landings in Normandy, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. He also reveals several very close calls while in the Pacific and reveals the immense honor given to the USS Nevada and then quickly taken away. Ramsey also shares how the Nevada survived the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor long before he came aboard and how he and his shipmates stayed close for decades after the war.

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