The Voyage Home, July - August 1945
The Navy transport set out from Leyte, bound for
the States, on what would turn out to be a voyage of some forty-five
days and take us back through the Panama Canal to New York.
We had a fine trip, with lots of good
food and fine accommodations. We stopped over at Ultihi Harbor and were
able to get off the ship for exercise and GI beer. By the time we got
to New York, my sinus infection was gone! Just before we went through
the Canal, we got word of the atomic bomb.
We arrived in New York on the morning
of V-J Day, got leave to go to town and stepped up into Times Square
just as the lights came around the Times building.
Mary Moss Madison, Clarice Slagle, June
Bacon and Herbert Land met us. We had a fine evening. After a three-day
trip to Ft. Sam, I checked into Brooke General. Here I was given a clean
bill on counts and returned to full duty. My next stop was Army Ground
Forces Redistribution Center, Ft. Sam Houston. Along with a number of
other young officers, we stayed here until mustered out. I got out in
January, 1946, returned home and entered Law School in February.
Preamble
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