AG and MM Board: Re: Where have all the sailors gone?

Re: Where have all the sailors gone?

Posted by Donald Personette on December 4, 2007, 1:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Where have all the sailors gone?"
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My Navy experiences were never as satisfying to me as was my time in the Merchant Marine, though it was fulfilling. I finished Navy boot camp in 1945 and attended Gunners Mate school at Great Lakes followed by Submarine School in New London. I served aboard the submarine Sea Robin from early 1946 through 1947 before becoming a Hospital Corpsman.

I did two tours with the Marine Corps as a Navy Corpsman, including 10 months in Korea beginning with the invasion at Inchon and another tour on Okinawa in 1959-60. I also served aboard the carrier USS Cabot and on the USNS Eldon H. Johnson in the Military Sea Transport Service.

It was all satisfying, but as I said it was my Merchant Marine service that I am most proud of, and my memories of the Navy Armed Guardsmen aboard the Josiah Royce are of a great group of young Americans who never got the notice and credit that they earned on merchant ships around the world during WWll.

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