Re: Shore Duty
Posted by Fran Kent on November 30, 2009, 2:18 pm, in reply to "
Re: Shore Duty"
Bob has it right. Armed Guard sailors generally didn't spend a lot of time ashore between ships. The A.G. centers were essentially receiving stations crowded with casual personnel awaiting assignment or reassignment. We performed whatever odd jobs the AGC ship's company could fob off on us, usually without regard to rating. The longest period I spent in an AGC was about two weeks, at New Orleans, toward the end of the war in Europe; radiomen were no longer urgently needed and some of us, because we could use a typewriter, were assigned to the personnel office. For the most part, we were being sent back to the Fleet, to ships being readied for the last act in the Pacific: the invasion of the Japanese home islands. I don't think you'll find many who disagreed with Harry Truman's decision to use atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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