Carl Kasey

Carl Kasey was born on a farm five miles southwest of McPherson, Kansas, on November 28, 1922. He attended a one-room school house for several years and completed his education in the McPherson public school system. Kasey graduated from high school in 1940 and enrolled in McPherson College. His junior year, he suspected he would get drafted anytime, and he did not think an Army soldiers life looked good, so he enlisted in the Navy. 

Kasey had many levels of training and was stationed in Hawaii for nineteen months, moving around to different bases on the islands. He had many jobs, including teaching Army amphibious personnel how to swim, use their clothing for life preservers, and how to get on and off the landing crafts they would use in the Pacific Theater. 

Carl returned to the United States and finished college on the G.I. Bill and became a teacher. He taught in McPherson until retirement. Kasey shared many artifacts from his days in the Navy, including a small black box. This box was a training tool to teach sailors morse code. Kasey also has the flash cards given out to teach the sailors to identify enemy planes. At the time of his video interview, Kasey was 100 years old.