Chief Quartermaster Stanley is a graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx and was a student at New York University before enlisting in the Navy in 1932. He advanced through the various grades to the rank of Chief Petty Officer in 1943. During World War II he served in the destroyers Nelson, Shields, and Glennon, and on the staff of Commander Carrier Division TWENTY-FIVE. In addition to service in the South Pacific in 1942, he served in Africa, Sicily, and Normandy. After the war Stanley was Recruiter-in-Charge at NRSS at White Plains, N. Y., until 1948. He spent the next two years aboard the aircraft carrier Siboney. Subsequently he participated in the Inchon and Iwon invasions with Amphibious Group THREE, to which he is still attached.