Clyde Small
Enlisted March 1943
Returned December 1945
Began in Military Police Escort Guard Company in New Caledonia (11 months)
Guadalcanal
MP - the "343rd" July thru October 1944
New Guinea (2 months)
Biak
Island
Sansapor - applied for and received transfer to 44th Fighter Squadron;
worked as an armoror, servicing, loading, repairing machine guns on fighter
planes. Hung bombs, adjusted cameras.
Lingayen Gulf, Luzan Island, Philippines - for invasion
Mindoro, Philippines - reassigned back to MP in Lingayen due to shortage.
Ieshima - joined the 1131st
The war ended while he was in Okinawa, but he came down with jaundice
/ hepatitis and was sent to the naval hospital in Guam for about 1 month
to recover. (He almost died and was sick enough to have viewed death as
a mercy!)
He was then sent to Saipan upon recovering to wait for the ship home. |
