On December 14, 1945 I received my Radioman 1st Class Technician rating. Technician does not mean the ability to work on radios, but that I had special duties as a radioman.
I also received my discharge on this day at the Separation Center in Shoemaker, California. They tried to talk us into joining the Naval Reserve, but I wanted no part of it at that time. Since I signed up later, I would have been ahead to have joined then. I left California and headed for home by train on 15 December 1945.
Award received for service from 7 December 1941 to 2 September 1945
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I just caught up on a bunch of posts and I especially liked the wedding story ones! It's amazing how different life was back then!
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