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Show Rose (1/2S/83) uage 1? lieutenant, went to Camn Roberts, California, and was shipned from Camp Roberts to ~crt Mason in San Francisco to await a boat , and in March I went overseas, March of '43. I went overseas to Hawai i. I sat in Hawaii for about 3~ months, and I knew I had to get the hell out of there. It wasn't 3~ months, it was 2~ months. In ,... the 25th division, which has been involved in Gu ata\ ~anal , they nut in for volunteers because they were losing casualties to malaria. They were taking a whinping from the Japanese, but they were also losing casualties to malaria. So, I put in, my transfer was approved, and then I sat on my God damn foot locker •• you know, they needed volunteers right away. I was a reasonably good officer at least I'd learned my book lessons reasonably well, and I sat on that God damn rock and then we took amphibious training. Every group that went for amphibious training •• after all, I was excess ~;C\\n\ r~~ baggage, I had every amphibiousAexercise. You know, I had com-manded the guys that went 15 at a time, 18 at a time, or something like that. I tell you, I spent 3 months souping wet, climbing up and down those ship~iii nets, climbing up and down those ship \': ~t~i nets into little LCBP's, which\a one unit deal that even takes I a squad of men ashore or it takes a jeen ashore or it will take a survey crew ashore, you know. We'd get out and we'd get down the net with a full pack, circle in those ds.mn things ••• rain, storm or anything, there you were •• and I want to tell you something- all you do is hope that the God damn thing would sink. You'd spend half the time hoping it was going to sink and half the time afraid a\l . .u~'}S it was going to. You're just nauseous all the time, ~on the verge of vomiting, and frequently you did, because all you did was just go around in a circle until everybody was off the ships, you |
