Sexo

Male

Birth date

1931-3-10

Local de nascimento

Seattle WA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1951-8-1, Seattle WA

Tipo de alistamento

Volunteer

Ramo das Forças Armadas

Navy

Tipo de serviço

Peacetime

Tipo de Unidade

Support

Unidades onde serviu

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.

Military specialty

Boilertender

Stationed

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

Separated

Seattle WA

Unit responsibility

1st Assignment: Jim Creek Naval Radio Station

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

Personal responsibility

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

Living conditions

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.

Most vivid memory of military experience

Crossing equator.

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

Missed most whilst in the military

Japanese food, friends backhome.

Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?

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

Additional information

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.