Oral History Interview with William Sloman Page: 15

                                
we, and the whole battalion related to us, and we went back
to Pearl Harbor.
MC: Oh, okay. Now when about was this?
WS: This was in August.
MC: In August, okay. So instead of going to Wake, you went
back to Pearl Harbor.
WS: We went back to Pearl Harbor. Now at the same time, they
sent a small group out to Wake, but they went by a
different route.
MC: Now these were the -- this group you're talking about, that
went to Wake in August of '41, that was the first one sent
to Wake.
WS: Yeah. The first 20 guys. We got back to Pearl Harbor, of
course we went out to the port town from there, on the
coast down there, Hickam Field, it sort of runs up toward
the (inaudible). We were in the process of target practice
and one day about noon, took us back in and put us to work
loading the USS Castor. In the meantime, there had been
sort of a confusion. The 12 of us was going to Johnston

Island. We were to go down a certain day and get booster
shots, and whatever clothes we might want from the
quartermaster, and we had a special pay requisition
approved. We could go by the paymaster and draw some
money, and we had liberty. Being there at roll call the

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