Showing posts with label Navy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Navy. Show all posts

Monday, February 24, 2025

My Father in Clarksville, Arknansas During WWII Studying Radio.


 After having served ab out a year as a radar technician, dad went back to training to become a radioman.  He had spent some time in Chicago at Herzl colleg, and then moved on the Clarksville for more advanced study.  This was 1944.  Dad and another sailor had to repeat the course but he did graduate as a radioman.  From here he would continue to study radio at Treasure Island in San Francisco.



Recent pictures of the university where he studied.




Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Dad's Military Records US Navy






This is not a complete history.  My father volunteered in July 1943 and went to boot camp at Farragut in Idaho.  After a brief leave he went to San Diego to radar school.  From there he went east and was placed on the USS Garfield, a destroyer escort.  On the ship they went on one practice run to Bermuda.  They then escorted a new aircraft carrier to Brazil.  Finally he went on a convoy mission to Africa.  At that time as the radarman he did see enemy planes on his screen.  After this mission he was in radio school.  First he attended school in Clarksville, Arkansas.  After this he went to Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay.  Shortly after completing school he was released from active duty and was part of the reserves.  As noted in the honorable discharge he was released form the reserved in September 1948.