Oral History Interview with Houston James, May 26, 1983 Page: 2
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Marcello:Probably the primary reason.
Why did you select the Navy as opposed to one of the other
branches of the service?
My father had been a Navy man, and I was raised in a Navy town.What is the extent of your education?
I have a degree in publishing and printing out of the
Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York,
which I gained by going to the school on a GI Bill of
Rights.
So in other words, when you joined the Navy, you were a high
school graduate?
No, I had a ninth grade education when I joined the Navy.
When was it that you joined the Navy?
I joined the Navy on March 7, 1941.
Why did you decide to join the service in March of 1941?
Well, primarily because I was from a very large, extremely
poor family, and it gave me an opportunity to feed myself and
earn a little bit of money and all the other things that
would come about from a young man's dreams of going and seeing
the world and that type of thing, As soon as I became legally
of age, I joined. I had intentions of joining just as soon as
I became of age, and I went in seven days after my seventeeth
birthday.
So would it be safe to say, then, that ecomonics perhaps was
the primary reason for your entering the service?James:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & James, Houston. Oral History Interview with Houston James, May 26, 1983, book, May 26, 1983; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2100338/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.