性別

Male

生年月日

1931-3-10

出生地

Seattle WA, U.S.A.

入隊した年

1951-8-1, Seattle WA

入隊のタイプ

Volunteer

所属・部署

Navy

兵役のタイプ

Peacetime

所属部隊のタイプ

Support

所属部隊

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.

特殊技能

Boilertender

最終目標

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

除隊した年

Seattle WA

所属部隊の役割

1st Assignment: Jim Creek Naval Radio Station

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

所属部隊での個人的役割

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

生活状況

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.

軍隊生活で最も記憶に残っている出来事

Crossing equator.

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

軍隊にいる間、最も懐かしかったもの

Japanese food, friends backhome.

個人的に軍隊経験から学んだ最も重要なこと

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

その他の情報

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.