Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1931-3-10

Lugar de Nacimiento

Seattle WA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1951-8-1, Seattle WA

Tipo de Alistamiento

Volunteer

Afiliación Militar

Navy

Tipo de servicio prestado

Peacetime

Tipo de unidad militar

Support

Unidades a las que sirvió

Jim Creek Naval Radio Station, Arlington, WA

USS Stickell (DDR 888)

Separated August 1955 from Regular Navy and August 1959 after additonal obligated inactive reserve duty.

Especialidad militar

Boilertender

Asignado

USA - Kirkland, WA, San Diego, CA, Honolulu, HI, Norfolk, VA, New Orleans, LA, Pensacola, FL; Kwajalein; Okinawa, Japan; Yokosuka, Japan; Taiwan, Formosa; Kobe, Japan; Sasebo, Japan; Sri Lanka, Ceylon; Singapore; Hong Kong, China; Mombasa, East Africa; Cape Town, South Africa; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Recife, South America; Guantanamo, Cuba; New Brunswick, Canada

Retirado

Seattle WA

Responsabilidad en la unidad

1st Assignment: Jim Creek Naval Radio Station

2nd Assignment: USS Stickell, DDR 888, Radar Picket Ship

Responsabilidad individual

Seaman duties at Radio Station; Maintained and operated power plant on USS Stickell.

Condiciones de Vida

At Jim Creek Naval Radio Station lived in town and commuted to Jim Creek where new base was being constructed.

Shipboard - Only Asian aboard of 280 men. Slept on bottom of 3 layers of canvas bunks - 18 inches between bunks, below deck -one story, 1/3 of the way from rear of ship. Worked in middle of ship, two stories below deck - in boiler room, where fresh water is heated for ship propulsion. Meals eaten one story below deck.

Typical day is work cleaning, repairing, painting and standing one of three 8 hour watches - manipulating valves, observing water levels, transferring fuel, food, mail while travelling 18 MPH side by side with other ships.

Entertainment was movies, book, games.

Periodically combat readiness was practiced with simulated damage, firing guns, dropping depth charges, listening for submarines, avoiding torpoedoes , rescuing pilots from the sea, operating with other ships such as carriers, cruisers, submarines and other destroyers.

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

Crossing equator.

Trying to rescue pilot whose plane went off the front end of carrier which he just took off from.

Lo que más extraño durante su tiempo en las fuerzas armadas

Japanese food, friends backhome.

¿En lo personal, qué obtuvo de su experiencia militar?

Meeting other people/nationalities and trying to get along with them.

Información adicional

Ports entered include: San Diego, CA; Honolulu, HI; Kwajalein Island; Okinawa; Yokosuka, Japan; Taiwan (Formosa); Off shore North Korea; Kobe, Japan; Sasebo, Japan; Osaka, Japan; Sri Lanka (Colombo), Ceylon; Singapore; Hong Kong, China; Mombasa, EAst Africa; Cape Town, South Africa; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America; Recife, South America; Guantanamo, Cuba; Norfolk, VA; New Orleans, LA; Pensacola, FL; New Brunswick (St. Johns), Canada.