Oral History Interview with Archie Wilkerson, January 28, 1977 Page: 4
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of those guys realized what was going on. They saw the
build-up and so on that was taking place. I believe that
our President really knew that it was going to happen,
but for political reasons, very little was done about
it.
You mentioned that your company commander had served in
the Asiatic Fleet. Evidently, those Asiatic sailors were
a different breed by themselves, were they not?
Later on, when I was in the Philippine Islands, I had a
man working for me that. . . they called him. . . his
last name was Forster, and they called him "Far East
Forster." And he was about as squirrely as they come
(chuckle). I think he had about twelve years in the Navy
at the time, and it had been eight years since he'd been
back in the continental United States.
Now you mentioned that at the time you went to boot camp,
you were only seventeen years of age. You'll have to
estimate this, of course, but what would you say was the
average age of the boot in your particular recruit unit
at that time?
I'd say an average of about twenty to twenty-one. We did
have some older men. As I look back, there was one in
particular that I remember. He must have been in his
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Wilkerson, Archie, 1924-. Oral History Interview with Archie Wilkerson, January 28, 1977, book, January 28, 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1857652/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.