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Lyman County South Dakota's Genealogy |
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Jim Serr Sept 1945 Jim Serr, who was among the first of the Kennebec boys to join navy, writes us a letter and encloses a clipping about the USS Pennsylvania, to which he was assigned and on which he was serving at the time of the Pearl Harbor incident. He says, “Since leaving the states last January, I spent five and a half months trying to catch my ship. Spent five months on the USS Colorado, sixty days of that was at Okinawa. I never saw so many suicide dives in my life and it scared the heck out of me a couple of times. The very day I finally reported aboard the Pennsylvania, August 12, she was torpedoed. What a reception. I thought I would have to make a swim of it for awhile. The war was so near over, too, that’s what hurt. You have no doubt heard of the navy’s point system. It don’t concern me because I have nine and a half months to do on my enlistment. I have 43 ˝ points though … enough to get out on. |
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