AVIATION RADIOMAN - ARM3, ARM2, ARM1
PETTY OFFICER 3rd, 2nd, and 1st, CLASS
USS SANTEE, CVE-29
ATLANTIC & PACIFIC FLEETS

Assigned as Supervisor and Petty Officer in charge of the Aviation Electronics Shop. Reported aboard the USS Santee, CVE-29 as an Aviation Radioman 3rd Class, ARM3; advanced to Aviation Radioman 2nd Class, ARM2; then advanced to Radioman 1st Class, ARM1. Assigned to the Santee’s Aviation Electronics Division for maintenance, repair, service, trouble-shooting and installation of Aviation Electronics equipment of embarked Fighter and Torpedo-Bomber Squadrons; and as a Radar Operator at the Santee’s Combat Information Center (CIC). Supervised the Aviation Electronics Division personnel, operating radar at the Combat Information Center (CIC) and/or remote radar monitor operator on the Santee’s Island (Flying Bridge). Performed and Supervised Aviation Electronics Technicians in the maintenance, repair, service, installation and trouble-shooting, of Aviation MHF, VHF and UHF Radio Communications, Intercommunications (ICS), Navigation, Radio Homing and Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) equipment. General Quarters Station assignment as a remote Radar Operator and messenger for the Duty Officer of the Day (OOD) on the Santee’s Flying Bridge. On 13 February 1944 the USS Santee, stood out of Norfolk, VA with destroyer escort USS Tatum (DE-789), transited the Panama Canal on the 18 and 19 February and moored at San Diego, Calif.on the 28th February 1944. The Panama Canal transit ended my tour with the USS Santee’s wartime operations in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Campaign (Atlantic) and the beginning of wartime operations in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater campaign. The geographical S shape of Panama causes Eastward travels from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast.

U. S. Navy Transport, USS General W. F. Hase, AP-146

During World War II, dis-embarked the USS Santee, CVE-29 October 1944 and embarked the U. S. Navy Transport USS General W. F. Hase, AP-146 at Manus Island, Admiralties with 2500 other veterans of the World War II New Guinea campaign for transportation back the United States (San Francisco). This concluded my tour on the USS Santee’s wartime operations in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Campaign (Pacific). Later, separated from the active U. S. Navy after World War II in January 1946 and returned to civilian life. More on this in February 1946 to March 1951 item of My Profile.