Billy enlisted into the U.S. Navy on November 7, 1945. On the
day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, he was on a farm
near Elkhart, Texas. He was 13 years old on that fateful Sunday.
After basic training, Billy was assigned to the U.S.S.
Osmus, DE 701, which was a destroyer escort. The Osmus was operating off the
China coast when Billy boarded the U.S.S. Higbee, a Gearing class destroyer who sailed to China with Billy
on board to join his assigned ship.
The Osmus participated in post war customs duty along the
coast of Korea in the American Occupation Zone.
Billy’s job on the Osmus was sonar operation and
maintenance. Billy says that his experience in the Navy taught him responsibility,
discipline, technology, patriotism and love of country.
Bill was discharged on November 14, 1947.
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