Profiles HFDFW Flight # 19

 

Roy joined the Navy because he saw in the moves that soldiers slept in foxholes and sailors slept in bunks, so he went with the Navy and was inducted in August, 1943.

After basic training, he attended radioman school in Farragut, Idaho.

In April 1944 he was assigned to the transport ship, U.S.S. General W.F. Hase, AP-146.

The Hase crisscrossed the Pacific from New Guinea to India bringing home troops from far off battlefields and brought them back to the states. Later, the ship was sent to the east coast of the United States and participated in Operation Magic Carpet Ride, which brought troops back to the states from the European and Mediterranean theaters.

Roy says that the log of the Hase shows that he traveled over 187000 nautical miles taking troops in and out of wartime theaters of operation.

Roy was discharged from the navy in January, 1946 with the rank of Radioman 2^nd Class.