Enrique “Bing” Buso, of Sedalia, enlisted in the service in July 1951 with a friend, Willard Harper, who wanted to get away from Sedalia. Buso was three months shy of being 18 and had completed his second year of high school.
They decided to join the Navy and his mother had to sign his enlistment papers. Harper and Buso went through basic training together in San Diego before they were split up.
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