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go fight someplace and they would come back and I didn't find this out until I was getting ready to be discharged from the service that that was why I got discharged. I an . this Gibson guy got so many points because we were actually working on the aircraft. I just couldn't believe it. But I think I got out after maybe II months after I went overseas. Mr. Misenhimer When you went overseas what ship did you go on? Mr. Finley I can't tell you, I just know it was a big old troop ship. I can tell you about some of that stuff going over there. Mr. Misenhimer Go ahead. Mr. Finley Aboard ship wasn't much fun. The reason it wasn't much fun is because they were crowded. We were really, really crowded because of the fact that the bunks that you slept in were only, maybe you could barely turn over in the doggone thing. I thought that was bad until we went by way of Hawaii and we stopped at Pearl Harbor to see some of the remnants of where the bombs had landed on the air base. My friend was in the Navy on submarine duty and he asked me to come down and take a look at his sub which I did.
I'm glad I never got in, those things were really crowded in there. I don't know how he stood it. When we were aboard ship it was bad enough. For instance if it was rough water you had a hard time hanging on to your tray; they had these Navy trays. Also keeping the food on your tray; keeping it in front of you, it was terrible. A lot of the guys threw up and the food and vomit would get all over the place and fall on the floor. Afterwards they
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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