Richard Britt

Richard Britt entered the service after graduating from the University of Illinois, where was a member of the ROTC, but, due to his height(5'4"), he didn't have to do the military training. He arrived at Pearl Harbor more than half a year after the attack, but the place was still a mess. He worked loading and unloading cargo on military ships, a job that before the bombing had been done by the Japanese. He also worked in the Marshall Islands as a water-point, filtering sea water into fresh water. His mother died while he was stationed in the Marshall's and he was unable to make it home for her funeral. After he was discharged, he came home on the aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Roi, which was so full of men that "the chow line never stopped."


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