Oral History Interview with Albert E. Kennedy, April 15, 1987 Page: 2
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college. So I was working at a Western Auto store there for
$2.00 a day, and I knew I'd never save enough money to go to
college, so I decided to join the Navy. I had visions of
maybe making the U.S. Naval Academy through the Navy, but
that didn't work out, either.
You said that you actually joined in Houston. Was there any
significance to that?
That was the nearest...that was the local recruiting station.
Describe the process by which you got aboard the USS Houston.
Well, I went through the Naval Training Station in San Diego,
and from there I went to the USS Pennsylvania. That was around
1940. During the fall of 1940, they put out a fleet letter
asking for volunteers for the USS Houston, to go to the Asiatic
Station. I applied for that and was accepted, and I got on
the Houston at Pearl Harbor in 1940.
Why did you volunteer -for duty on the Houston in order to go
to the Asiatic Station?
Two reasons. One, I wasn't getting along with the chief
petty officer in charge of my division, and the other was
a romantic thought of being in China and all the things I'd
heard about the Asiatic Fleet..Marcello:
Kennedy:
Marcello:
Kennedy:
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Kennedy:
Marcello:I'm assuming from what you said, then, the fact that you were
living in Texas had nothing to do with your going aboard the
Houston.
No, not really. No.Kennedy:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Kennedy, Albert E. Oral History Interview with Albert E. Kennedy, April 15, 1987, book, April 15, 1987; Denton, TX. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137862/m1/4/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.