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NAVY
WWII

LUBBOCK

edge of a road. We bombed, fired our thousand dollars, and we opened
rockets and strafed until the target A & L Auto Sales. Due mostly to
area was clouded with smoke and the rising market in automobiles,
dust, impossible to see. we prospered.
Sept. 22, 1944:
We left Peleliu and headed for Ulithi, “I met and married Susan
an atoll west of Yap. McMahan in May 1949, sold
Tomorrow is D-Day for Ulithi. out to my uncle, moved to
It is scheduled to be a three-day Albuquerque, and opened A J
campaign. Auto Sales. Over the next fifteen
years, I was in several automotive
Sept. 23, 1944: businesses, and by then, we had
Ulithi D-Day four children.
More like a 3-minute campaign.
August 1, 1944: Ulithi was deserted. “In 1967, I moved to Lubbock and
We were catapulted at 0520 with opened Lubbock Stereo Center.
instructions to land on Saipan and On October 11, 1944, while the The Lubbock Tornado hit in
pick up an observer. With Tinian ship was undergoing repairs at May 1970, and soon after, I
secured, we headed south across Manus Island,
the equator to Espiritu Santos for Andy received
R&R or more like B and S (beer and orders to report
swimming). Part of our time was to flight school. Kincaid Roofing
spent getting our planes and gear He spent the
ready for the next invasion. next 18 months
in flight school
Sept. 16, 1944: and was Proudly Salutes
Strike on Peleliu today. The Naval discharged on
gunfire was hitting the southern points, March
end of a mountain range. Several 10, 1946. our Veterans
OS2U’s over the island directing the
gun fire reminded me of our mid- His first
air with the cruiser’s SOC over job after
Tinian. We dropped our bombs and discharge was
fired our rockets into a clump of trees in Cincinnati
where Torchy directed us. I didn’t flying air
see the actual target, but Torchy said shows. He
we hit the intended positions. talked his
Uncle Leo
Sept. 21, 1944: into going
I was up before 0400 this morning into the used
for the early strike on Peleliu. We car business
were catapulted at 0520 with two with him. “I
500 lb. bombs and 8 rockets. Our used the GI
target was an area in front of our Bill to borrow
armored cars and troops along the a couple of

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