1 00:00:01,76 --> 00:00:05,18 OK so you you get your draft notice there with what's your reaction when you see 2 00:00:05,18 --> 00:00:09,97 this driver. Well I was coming back to him you know I wanted to volunteer. But said 3 00:00:09,97 --> 00:00:12,77 My dad was away he was my mom's and on I know once 4 00:00:12,77 --> 00:00:16,16 a month or so that given it's me that question and that's 5 00:00:16,16 --> 00:00:23,10 a definite had no choice but yeah. And by then you know that that for forty second 6 00:00:23,10 --> 00:00:23,42 and made 7 00:00:23,42 --> 00:00:27,94 a name for themselves and and everything's I thought I should definitely you know I 8 00:00:27,94 --> 00:00:34,20 had no bigger problem but I kind of believe that you know you always waiting for 9 00:00:34,20 --> 00:00:39,38 that notice to come out and so when I came out I had no problems and it's about 10 00:00:39,38 --> 00:00:44,54 what time I went year one thousand nine hundred forty five. I mean like you forty 11 00:00:44,54 --> 00:00:49,16 five forty five. How can this when the world was all over and everything else. So 12 00:00:49,16 --> 00:00:50,15 it was you know it was 13 00:00:50,15 --> 00:00:56,90 a good time going the army. OK so where did you do your training. Oh I was 14 00:00:56,90 --> 00:01:02,67 inducted in the port Benjamin Harrison Indiana and then they sent us to 15 00:01:02,67 --> 00:01:09,50 a camp leave camp Levi Genya to my basic training and 16 00:01:09,51 --> 00:01:16,38 from Camp Levi Ginia they sent me to Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland 17 00:01:17,37 --> 00:01:20,12 and that's where I trained as 18 00:01:20,12 --> 00:01:24,77 a heavy equipment became you know 19 00:01:27,35 --> 00:01:33,59 big trucks and tanks and and those army ducks and that type of thing 20 00:01:36,41 --> 00:01:36,72 and it was 21 00:01:36,72 --> 00:01:41,79 a great time because I think in the summertime the sergeant I was doing the 22 00:01:41,79 --> 00:01:47,68 training. You know we were out on the Chesapeake Bay there. So for some reason we 23 00:01:47,68 --> 00:01:47,97 spent 24 00:01:47,97 --> 00:01:53,75 a lot of time working on ducks and we'd always gotten tests and just people you 25 00:01:53,75 --> 00:02:00,34 know he'd like to do that and you know. It was his call. I guess he can pretty much 26 00:02:00,34 --> 00:02:04,24 do what he wanted and I think I thought I was the one important that we be doing so 27 00:02:05,14 --> 00:02:08,84 you know getting training on trucks that were used more than the ducks you know on 28 00:02:08,84 --> 00:02:11,97 everywhere I didn't have ducks but anyway i will i was OK I was 29 00:02:11,97 --> 00:02:16,48 a fun time for us where this guy would dock is that's that's 30 00:02:16,48 --> 00:02:20,39 a when they see going out water and land and water but it's 31 00:02:20,39 --> 00:02:27,38 a boat truck type of thing. And so those things that could drive up on the BE 32 00:02:27,38 --> 00:02:32,53 RIGHT to load up and go back in the water. All right and so he's like You can't go 33 00:02:32,53 --> 00:02:38,84 around it that has them out yesterday cruise around yesterday that. He brought you 34 00:02:38,84 --> 00:02:43,17 a walk. Oh yeah well all of us you know I think to I don't know five or six of us. 35 00:02:43,22 --> 00:02:47,21 I would miss particular class and. And yeah we spent 36 00:02:47,21 --> 00:02:53,96 a lot of time out. I think you said earlier you were being. Training as 37 00:02:53,96 --> 00:02:58,93 a replacement troop for the forwards you don't really know me you know and all of 38 00:02:58,93 --> 00:03:01,36 that was you know that for 39 00:03:01,37 --> 00:03:07,00 a look. I'm like camp leave Virginia that was you know basic infantry training and 40 00:03:07,00 --> 00:03:10,70 we didn't know what was going to happen before somebody and they picked my name to 41 00:03:10,70 --> 00:03:14,94 send me to that up to Aberdeen Proving Grounds Maryland.