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worked on that as a chore boy. My duties were if the chickens squawked I collected the eggs. I split the wood and fired up the fires. Former President Hoover came there and I met him personally. When he left he gave me a full complement of wages; $60 a month is what I was making. So I saved that money but that still wasn't enough to go to college. So I came home and I had a friend working in that small town at the Farmer's Union Gas Company. I don't know what he was making but I went to see him. His name was Wellington Angle I think, but we all called him Guinea because his face was all marked with freckles. I said, "Do you have any money you can loan me?" He said, "Sure, you're honest. What do you need?" I said, "I sure could use $250. I've got about $400 saved up." He said, "You take the $250 and pay me back when you can." So like I say, I was staying at this place and they were giving me some money. They charged me $25 a month but they gave me money for working around the house and all that kind of stuff. That's how I got through there. I got that kid paid back as soon as I could. Mr. Misenhimer So you went three years there is that right? Mr. Finley Well, not quite. I went from September of 1941 to November of 1943. Mr. Misenhimer
So two years? Mr. Finley Yes, that's right, two years. I was majoring in chemistry at the time. That's why when I went into the service. I went to boot camp and the tests they gave you, I could almost get everything right. So three times they asked me to go and gave me the chance to go to
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Albert Finley. Finley joined the Marine Corps around December of 1943. He provides vivid details of his boot camp experiences. He served with Headquarters Company, 4th Marines, as a radar mechanic on Corsairs, repairing radio and radar gear. Beginning in September of 1944 they traveled to Guam, Kwajalein, Pearl Harbor and Majuro in the Marshall Islands. Finley shares a number of anecdotal stories, including working with POWs. He was discharged in the fall of 1946.
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Finley, Albert.Oral History Interview with Albert Finley, April 11, 2006,
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April 11, 2006;
Fredericksburg, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1604972/m1/10/:
accessed July 16, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.