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Show EVERETT D E ONDER J LY 16,2004 DEE: Well I just figured I like it more. I had a step-brother in the Navy. My ld t step-bother was in the Navy. So I guess that's what it was. His ship was ba ed at Pearl Harbor. He was on the Saratoga when Pearl Harbor was bombed. [Editor 's note: U Saratoga, CV 3, commissioned in 1927, was the first fast carrier in the US Navy. Fortunately, on the morning of December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked, none of the three US carriers in the Pacific Fleet were in port. USS Lexington, CV-2, and USS Enterprise, CV-6, were at sea. USS Saratoga was just entering San Diego after an interim drydocking at Bremerton. Saratoga returned to Pearl Harbor on December 15.] BEC: What would you like to do from this point? Do you just want to read your history for us? Whatever you'd like to do. DEE: Yes, let's do the reading about my two ships. [Reading from history] "Dee was born in Monroe, Utah, October gth, 1923. He moved to Inkom, Idaho, with his family at the age of twelve. He left home to work on his own when he turned sixteen. He worked as a ranch hand, a miner, a smelter worker until drafted into the Navy in 1943. He received his basic training at Farragut, Idaho, and graduated from gunnery school in San Diego, California. Dee made three cruises to the South Pacific aboard two different liberty ships. His first ship, the SS John W Meldrum, left San Francisco, December ih, 1943, two years after Pearl Harbor. The ship carried ammunition and fuel and supplies to the Army and Air Corps Operations for one year before returning to the States to be refitted and reassigned. His next cruise aboard the SS Richard J Oglesby was the same. Munitions and fuel was the main cargo." BEC: Dee, what was the name of that second ship? 7 |
