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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

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Joined the U. S. Navy in Chicago, IL June 1943. After Boot Camp at Great Lakes, was sent to Virginia Beach, VA for Radar Training. Was a "Plankowner" on the USS James E Craig, DE 201. After a shakedown cruise to Bermuda, we spent the rest of 1943-45 in the SW Pacific earning seven Battle Stars. Radar was new at the time, but we learned by doing and used radar to keep position in a convoy or as an anti-sub ship going back and forth across harbor entrances. Also picked up "lost" aircraft and vectored them to a friendly base. After the war, spent over 30 years with the CAA/FAA as an Air Traffic Controller (still using the "old radars").