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CJ Willis
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Posted on: Apr 25, 2009 - 9:10am
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Hey Earl: I spent a little time in Noumea, N.C. but I never got up on the hill where those French girls in those white dresses with no slips worked. I rode by in a Jeep and there was lots of activity and sailors milling around though.
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earl
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Posted on: Apr 25, 2009 - 2:35pm
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hi CJ a lot of activity especially around the building at the end of the pier where you embarked from.three deep./
i worked details in the quansuts in the town.. always tried to make sure the sun was behind the girls.
the other detail was where they stacked the torpedos on the side of the hill by the leper colony. only girls there were inside but the fence didn,t stop some of the men from getting inside, they did bnot know any bettwer and when thery got caught i understood they had to be monitored for seven years to see if they got the disease>>>
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CJ Willis
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Posted on: Apr 25, 2009 - 3:57pm
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Earl, I remember the leprosy colony. It was 7 - 8 miles out of town next to some big quonset warehouses the Navy had out in the hills. I was on mess cook duty while there. We took a truck out to the warehouses for food supplies about every day.. We talked to those people inside the leprosy colony but I sure never crossed the fence. Being a mess cook I avoided the long chow lines at the receiving station. I knew guys that would eat then get in line for the next meal the lines were so long. I was glad to get out of there when they sent me up to Tulagi on the Jamestown where I joined Ron 19 and P.T. 242.
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earl
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Posted on: Apr 26, 2009 - 5:58am
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i was a cook but they assigned to outside details.i worked at the quanset huts therealso.they also had an ammo dump a few miles away. heard a loud ezplosion one day and found out thyat the ammo dump truck raised the body up(unbelievable)and just dumped the live ammo on the ground.needless to say they just found the wallet of the driver.they also had a japanese prison camp in the area.as i said i enjoyed the town details much better.remember also the long chow lines.i was laid up for a week in the hospital for heat stroke and then shipped to tulagi,via guadalcanal
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Russell Pullano
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Posted on: Apr 26, 2009 - 5:23pm
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You guyas should be on a stage......Does anyone know when the next one is leaving ??
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earl
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Posted on: Apr 27, 2009 - 5:15am
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wish i knew russ
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CJ Willis
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Posted on: Apr 27, 2009 - 9:59am
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Earl we stopped at Guadacanal also. That's where we disembarked from the Jamestown. We were only there a short time until P.T.s came over from Tulagi and picked us up. The one thing I remember about Guadacanal- The Marines had a few Jap prisoners in a barb wire fence enclosure. The Japs could have crawled through the fence about anywhere however at each end of the enclosure were two really tough looking Marines with tommy guns just hoping they would try to crawl out.
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earl
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Posted on: Apr 27, 2009 - 12:22pm
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CJ did not see the anclosure but sure got diarea my first cocoanut milk.almost sounds we were there at the same time and on the same voyage. just like SINBADs travels next act coming up russ
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