Ashore At Pearl Harbor-- Part 4: At the Hydrogen Bomb Tests

As postmaster of the USS West Virginia, he had to stay with the ship until it was salvaged. Most all of the rest of his shipmates were reassigned to other ships, but he ended up having to remain ay Pearl Harbor for a year-and-a-half.

In 1943, he was sent to gunners mate school in Washington, D.C., and ended up staying there for the rest of the war.

During the Korean War, he was commander of the USS Patapsco.

In 1954, he was at the hydrogen bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll where his ship was exposed to 20,000 times the recommended dosage of radiation. He retired from service in 1956.

Interesting Life. --RoadDog