He went from Pearl Harbor right across from battleship row, Tendered with 4 other destroyers. I’ve read all the after action reports. EVERYONE on leave didn’t need recall they all came in, my pop didn’t drink till he was 30 plus after the war and he said 1/2 the guys were hung to varying degrees. He was on the the USS Chicago CA-136 Baltimore Class Heavy Cruiser, tied to the Missouri they were island hopping picking up Japanese officers and taking them back to Tokyo. grandpa then spiked GUNS. I guess it was like blowing up the guns on the ships spent the next year in between Tokyo and Shanghai doing that with the jap ships as he would call them. He told me everything from the scariest moments both were not combat related typhoon somewhere in Indonesia or Singapore and they were tied to docs that were offshore, and he said he thought they were dying the way, it was throwing them around and they couldn’t do anything. Another time somewhere around mid Pacific up north towards the illusions something happened with the ship to where all the guys had to like hang off pipes to keep the ship from listing all the way over put the weight on one side of the ship it was crazy. anyway, he went to the Navy in 1941 at 17 and he went nuclear in 1946 and came back to the states, he was out in the bikini tolls for all the testing. He then went. He took the peg bump in the rank bump and being at home and went into the Air Force when the Air Force Started. When it was the space force basically and they had to draw officers in NCO is from the other branches. by the time he came home, he was not 23 had a wife and two sons that he had spent a few months with that were almost 3 and a year for the other one my uncle Larry and my dad. He was always in trouble for not being back to ship on time and other petty stuff. He was only like an E3 i believe at end of war he got reduction like twice and he was up in trees on Guada Canal and Okinawa. He told me the stories of wind talkers as a child stories before that movie even came out 30 years later. told me so many stories. He didn’t tell me the one like when he spent two days pulling bodies out of Pearl Harbor, and in the beginning, they would grab the bodies by their arm and the skin would just rip off right to the bone slide off as they tried to pull them out of the water horrific stories. I know I put him up here before or on Bongino page but what reading the after action report was pretty amazing half the crew was assigned to get the guns online and half the crew was assigned to get the electrical going because like I said they were tendered going through maintenance. It’s pretty gnarly and they got I can refuse on the stark or the case. I gotta find out. I’ve got the whole stuff. I’m just drawn a blank.

the question I have if you’re getting in trouble always for little stuff why do they punish you and put you on sea patrol while you’re in charge of making sure people don’t get in trouble or enforcing the rules. He was a signal man, but near the end of the warhe did a lot of shore patrol. He was a lot of shore patrol.