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[StartQuote] In Nov. 1944 after 13 months and about 85 patrols of Jap held Islands in the Solomons our PT 242 crew was relieved of duty at Green Island. After a couple of days in a tent at the base, Bob Pratt, our quartermaster, and I received our orders. They read "Upon arrival Port of Embarkation U.S.A., 30 days leave plus travel time to PT Base Melville RI. Find your own transportation back to the U.S." Now that was a long way to hitchhike. We caught a B25 from Green up to the Admiralties. There we caught a baby flat top Aircraft Carrier loaded on the flight and hanger decks with damaged airplanes bound for San Francisco. They gave us 2 cots which we set up under the wing of an SBD on the hanger deck. We were the only passengers, ate with the crew and had no duties. We stopped at Pearl Harbor for a day. We had no white uniforms- ours had mildewed in the tropics. The officers on the Aircraft Carrier gave us uniforms so we could go ashore in Honolulu. Saw the first white women we had seen in over a year. After about 16 days on the carrier we arrived in SF. Sure felt good to set foot in the U.S.A.. C. J. Willis[EndQuote]
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