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Well, we go back there and I asked one of the cooks where the Mess Sergeant was and I go over there and I talked to him. I said, " Sergeant, we are on KP and what do you want us to do?" He looked at us and now there is 3 staff Sergeants and 3 techs and he is a staff Sergeant and looked at us and said, "you all on KP?" and I said, "yea," He said, "well you all can do any damn thing you want to." I said, "well how about us running a china clipper?" He said, "it's yours if you want it. So, we ran the China clipper, that was the easiest job there and I can tell you one thing we did not have any KP pushers bothering us. For the method in our madness see because we ate with the cooks and they didn't have the same menu that the troops had. The troops were eating chicken ala king and we were having roast chicken and stuff like that. They had stew, we were eating roast beef. We had a lot more benefits you know. The bakers would come in at night and bake bread. We would go in there and get this hot bread and butter and they baked cakes and pies and stuff. We shared with that. We had it pretty good there. We did not want any big job. We wanted something to do. We were getting board anyway, so we stayed on that until we got into Seattle, Washington. Mr. Misenhimer: Then what happened? Mr. Ebel: We had these British POW's on there and we went to Vancouver and they got out at Vancouver Canada that is why we were way up there and most everybody else was coming in to San
Francisco and San Diego down that way. So they took us into Seattle. We ended up in Fort Lawton the same place we had left from on July '44 and that was November of '45, we came back to Seattle, Washington at Fort Lawton.
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Doyle Ebel. Ebel was drafted into the Army Air Forces in March, 1943 and trained at Miami Beach before going to radio operator school in Missouri. He also attended gunnery school before becoming a crewmember on a B-24 and shipping overseas in July 1944. He was assigned to the 26th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group at Saipan in October. Ebel recalls an emergency landing on Iwo Jima. He flew 37 combat missions before the war ended and returned to the US in November, 1945.
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July 30, 2013;
Fredericksburg, Texas.
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