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I reported to my duty assignment on board the fleet oiler USS Chemung (A0-30). It was docked at Subic Bay, P.I. I've had better Christmases. However, I WAS aboard a US Navy vessel and NOT in a foxhole somewhere "in country." I joined the Navy to see the world (and avoid the infantry) and damned if I didn't: Japan twice, Hong Kong twice, Taiwan twice, Subic Bay was our home port overseas--Long Beach was our "real" home port. I boarded the ship a Radioman striker (E-3) and left 19 months later as Radioman 2nd Class (E-5). My service allowed me to return to college on the GI Bill and to be the first in my family, from time immemorial, to graduate from college. I retired from teaching after 31 years of junior high social studies. The End.

My uncle was a Radioman around the same time, also based in Long Beach.

Would you happen to know anyone named John Lewin?

Ah, lotsa radiomen in our family trees

That was my Dad's job in the Army Air Corps -- WWII.

Would you happen to know anyone named John Lewin?

Sorry, no.

Wedemeyer, Hagan, Short, House, Shugrew, Godines, Stethem? Yes.

60 years ago today my father was aboard his ship, the USS Sierra, a destroyer tender, in Tsingtao, China.