On the road

On the road

Monday, March 24, 2014

Profiles Spring-Summer 2014 HFDFW


 

On Sunday December 7, 1941, George was hanging out with some friends at a drug store in San Antonio, Texas. The group then heard the tragic news that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. About two years later, George was in ducted into the U.S. Navy on January 7, 1943.

George was sent to the South Pacific after basic training and assigned as a supply officer for the 118th Construction Battalion (Seabees.) He served in such locations as Leyte and Luzon in the Philippine Islands. He also saw duty in Samar.

George’s most memorable war experience was coming home and sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco after two years in the South Pacific. He was discharged on September 15, 1947.    
  

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