It should be noted that the following duty stations only refer to the permanent change of station orders and does not take into consideration any Temporary Additional Duties (TAD) that I had. The fleet units assigned are listed as at the home port and does not include the locations visited while attached to these units. There may be slight errors in the dates since the source of this information was generated from memory during a change of duty station probably. I am sure the navy probably has the correct dates from my actual record.
While stationed at Port Lyautey, French Morocco I also flew as radio operator on flights to tow targets for gunnery practice for the sixth fleet in the Mediteranean. This was due to the fact that there was a shortage of qualified operators available during that time. The target towing was done with JD aircraft. My qualifications for this assignment was brought to the attention of the command because I had volunteered to join an all enlisted crew to ferry a PBY from Quonset Point, Rhode Island to Port Lyautey. I was the only person available with prior ARM experience in PBYs.
Date Duty Station Duty Transfer date
9/21/1942 | USN Recruiting Station Little Rock, Ark. | Processing | 9/23/1942 |
9/27/1942 | USNTS San Diego, California | Boot Camp and Radio School | 4/15/1943 |
4/25/1943 | NATTC Memphis, Tennessee | Aviation Radio School | 8/1/1943 |
8/3/1943 | Gunnery School Jacksonville, Florida | Student | 9/15/1943 |
9/15/1943 | O. T. U. NAS Jacksonville, Florida | PBY Operational Training | 11/1/1943 |
11/15/1943 | FAW 14 NAS San Diego, California | Student | 1/25/1944 |
1/25/1944 | FAW 14 NAS San Diego, California | Instructor | 4/1/1944 |
4/1/1944 | VP 54 | Radio Operator | 2/15/1945 |
3/15/1945 | NAS Corpus Christi, Texas | OTU PBM | 9/1/1945 |
9/10/1945 | NAS San Diego, California | OTU | 10/25/1945 |
10/25/1945 | Separation Center Coronodo, California | Processing | 10/28/1945 |
11/1/1945 | Separation Center Memphis, Tennessee | Processing and
Discharge |
11/4/1945 |
10/28/1946 | NAS Memphis, Tennessee | Control Tower Operator | 9/10/1949 |
9/20/1949 | NAS Niagara Falls, New York | Operations Clerk | 10/27/1949 |
10/28/1949 | NAS Niagara Falls, New York | Reenlist in place | 1/15/1953 |
1/15/1953 | NAS Niagara Falls, New York | Enlist in USN | 2/27/1953 |
3/7/1953 | NAF Port Lyautey, French Morocco | Operations Clerk | 8/5/1954 |
8/20/1954 | NAS Olathe, Kansas | Instructor | 3/1/1955 |
3/25/1955 | NATTC Memphis, Tennessee | Change of Rate | 3/28/1956 |
4/12/1956 | VC-11 | Of Rate (ATC) | 6/20/1956 |
7/2/1956 | NATTC Memphis, Tennessee | Instructor AT(A) Sch. | 6/20/1958 |
6/25/1958 | NAESU Washington, D. C. | Student | 9/5/1958 |
9/5/1958 | VF 81 | Of Rate | 10/15/1961 |
10/16/1960 | VA 81 | Of Rate | 2/1/1961 |
2/24/1961 | NATTC Memphis, Tennessee | Instructor AV(B) Sch. | 2/4/1964 |
2/1/1964 | NATTC Memphis, Tennessee | Transferred to Fleet Reserve. | |
7/1/1973 | Memphis, Tennessee | Retired from USN as AVCM |