| Tailor-mades
Lost by George Herold |
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I arrived at the San Diego DesBase, (SUBDIV41), in Oct '41 as a S2c. Not quite 6 mos in the Navy, attached to the USS S27 (SS132). Here I am, a real "boot" I guess, wanting to look "salty". So, my pay is $36 a month plus $10 submarine pay (UN-qual).I buy a set of tailor-made dress blues, serge, dragons & all, for $29.95. A few days later I and another guy were sent to the Pearl Harbor sub base for school. For me it was Signalman/Quartermaster school, the other guy I can't recall. Return to SanDiego around 1 March '42 to S27 and we leave for the Aleutain area. The boat is lost on 19 June along with my set of tailor-mades which I believe I wore only 1 or 2 times in early October of 1941. I had a picture taken then to send home for I thought I was saltiest, sea-going, S.O.B. in the entire Navy. The day-trips on the O-boats at New London while at Sub School were my only claim to sea time at that time. |
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