a letter to him. He was a captain at that time and he wrote me back a
nice letter, two letters, a personal letter and the other letter that
had given me the information that I needed. Incidently he lives in
Brooklyn. He was quite a man. He was a great man; I guess you could
Say everybody loved him. Well respected, well liked. Well he had a
good crew and it was part of his doing. I did pick up the pieces about

him later. I saw something in the Inquiring Reporter. It is a New York

 

paper where he had written in at one time. At that time he was rear
admiral retired and he had something to say. I don't remember what it
was but I remember he was in charge of smoke control in the city of

New York. Then he had gotten another appointment, something to do
with the enviroment for the state of New York. So he was a very active
man even after he left the service.

When I was on the Destroyer Wedderburn, the 684, I was down in the

 

engine room on watch and we were under air attack. I don't remember
when it was, it had to be around the time of Okinawa I guess. You always

seem to brag about your old home which I did on that ship, and they piped

over the loud speaker, "the North Carolina just shot one down;" and I'm

jumping around, "see that fellows, you know." "Correct that, that was one

of ours,"