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CJ Willis
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Posted on: Aug 15, 2015 - 7:14pm
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I was never assigned to a boat at Base 17 in the Philippines. We Ron 19 guys that had been relieved off 242 in the Solomons after 15 months overseas and given 30 days leave and R and R for a couple of months in Boston were due to be assigned to boats at Base 17 just anytime when the war ended. I had various duties while at Base 17 - drove a dump truck filling in the swamp around the base for a while - Stevedore, unloading cargo off ships (worked nights) etc. They always found something for us to do.
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TED WALTHER |
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 Posted on: Aug 17, 2015 - 2:33pm
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Wow! Driving a Dump Truck! That's no work an experienced PT Boat Torpedoman should be doing! Well you know what they say? A sailor with no work usually gets in trouble!
TM 3/C C.J. Willis PT 242, RON 19 and 23
P.S. If there was no Atomic Bomb, you and Earl probably would have been scooped up by another RON heading towards Japan. |
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CJ Willis
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Posted on: Aug 17, 2015 - 3:14pm
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Yes Ted you are right we would have been placed on boats of other squadrons. Our Ron 19 was decommissioned May 15, 1944 when we were in Green Island. We (PT 242) were then placed in Ron 23. After we were relieved they went to the Philippines and our old boat 242 somehow wound up in Ron 16.
P.S. Ted at Base 17 there was',nt much there for us to get in any trouble. We got 2 beers a week which had to be drunk at the time of issue in a fenced in compound. We couldn't even take it back to our tent.C. J. Willis |
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