David I. Garrett, Jr.   WHISTLE THE DEVIL


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.

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