Friday, March 18, 2016

On the way to Okinawa

Seventy-sixyears ago.. Who can remember events of that time?  I expect this will be the last time I will recall serving on the USS Pickens. We left Saipan in a convoy, all thr troop ships on the alert  for Jap suicide attack  planes.  We were prepared with general quarters by dawn  every day.  We were on the way to invade Okinawa.

I stood watch from 12 to 4 and foolishly tried to get  a few minutes of sleep.  I fell into  a coma and missed  the call for general quarters.  I drargged a leg  across a cable but got to the  radio shack.  No one had missed me..  

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