I was 19 years old and enlisted in the Navy Dec. 9 2 days after Pearl Harbor I went to boot camp in San Diego, then to gunnery training at North Island and then aboard the u s s Crane a destroyer for more training. I was then transfered to New Orleans Armed Guard Center. Next I went aboard the ss White Clover a Merchant ship built on the west coast 1920. I went to Russia three times,I made a trip to North Africa, my ship was sunk at the invasion of Sicily. I was at Normandy. After the war I was a Stationed at Oakland Navel Air Station, there many duties. I was discharged chief boatswain 12/9/54
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