Oral History Interview with James Sorenson Jr., July 3, 1972 Page: 2
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Sorenson
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wholesale seafood place here in Rockport. I might add
that I can remember when shrimp sold for two cents a
pound, and you consigned the shrimp to places like
Chicago, St. Louis, in carload lots by rail and
hoped that you might get paid for them when they got
there, which is a far cry from the sum of $2.75 a
pound for the boat that we are receiving today. Between
the time I left Saint Mary's University and joined the
Air Force I had majored in accounting and set up the
accounting system for Rice Brothers-Westergard Ship
Builders. They were building sub chasers, a 110-foot
wooden sub chaser for the Navy Department, and a great
many of these vessels went to the Russian government
when they were completed. I left there to join the
Air Force in October of 1941, October 28, I believe.
I think I was sworn into the Air Force on my mother's
birthday. I received basic training at Keesler Field,
Mississippi. It was a very new field at that time.
We were one of the first groups there. I went from
there to Officers' Candidate School at Miami Beach,
Florida, in the first class of that school--1942 A.
From there I was sent to the Adjutant General School
at Fort Washington, Maryland, and back to the Third
Air Force at Tampa, at which point I joined the Ninth
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Stephens, A. Ray & Sorenson, Jr., James H. Oral History Interview with James Sorenson Jr., July 3, 1972, book, July 3, 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529123/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.