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Show WE NORDGRE BR 23,200 BEC: That was still while you were in Pensacola? WES: Yes. By that time, I'd been on the base there for over two years and the war had started. Of course, when the war started in December 7 1941 I remember that was a ' ' Sunday. I got up that morning and heard it on the radio. So they doubled the watch, they called it. We used to have a watch, or duty, every fourth day. So when they doubled it then we got it every other day, and we'd go out and stand a watch. But just prior to the war starting-! neglected to mention there-I'd become partially friendly with, well I'd talk to him quite a bit when he'd come out to fly my airplane, one of the pilots, a lieutenantj.g.; his name was Decker, and he mentioned one time there, he said, "I go to Mobile, Alabama, quite a bit, just about every weekend., He said, "I have a girlfriend there and she could get you a blind date if you wanted to go over with me sometime., I thought that would be great; some day I'll have to go with him. But then the war started right soon after that. That was the fall of 1941 that he talked to me, but right after the war started I found out that the FBI came on the base one day and arrested him. He was a German spy. BEC: Really? WES: Yes. He may have been trying to recruit me, taking me over to Mobile, Alabama. BEC: Wow. WES: Anyway, that's the last I heard of him (laughs). But after I'd been on the base there for over two years, or about two years there, the Navy put out an order that everyone that had been shore based for at least two years or more would be sent to sea, on a ship or something. So I was just about ready to go to sea, but I'd put in for flight |
