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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Profile Honor Flight DFW Spring-Summer 2014


 

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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