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Enlisted Dec '43. Activated June '44. Deployed to Germany March '45. Had several close calls with death. Lost a lot of good men. Came back to US July '45. Honorably discharged April '46. Married 56 years before wife passed from lymphoma. Had 4 children, 3 boys and a girl. Live with daughter in WA state. Civilian mechanical engineer for Navy 35 years. Have a blog www.HappyHarryOutoftheBox.com
Military Experiences
Survey and Instrument Man
Survey School - Courses in instruments, aiming circle, transit and mathematical problems. Used aiming circle and transit to establish gun battery positions an coordinance of the positions in coordinance of the target.
Anti-Craft Fire Control Ground Observer
Anti-Craft Fire Control Ground Observer School - Courses in instruments, survey, battery command scope, aircraft recognition, radio, telephone communications, map reading, mathematics.
Private First Class
Camp Beale Separation Center - Separated April 1946 after returning from fighting the Nazis in Germany
Deployments
Rhineland Central Europe GO 40 WD 45
Carried BAR, fought the Nazis in Germany under General Patton.
Deployed to Germany March 1945. Returned to USA July 1945.
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