Coastal Patrol (for submarines) and MP duty – Rhode Island
Reported
for duty Mar 3, 1942
Point
Judith Mar 12, 1942 and Breton Point in July
Fort Wetherill, Jamestown, RI Sep
1942
Married Feb 20,1943 in Worcester
during first furlough in RI
Camp
Pendleton, VA Apr 14, 1943
Costal Patrol in
Virginia Beach with first furlough in NYC June 27, 1943
Left Camp Pendleton,
VA Jan 1, 1944
Transport of
artillery by train to San Francisco (guard duty in the caboose)
Arrival in Camp
Stoneman, CA until Jan 20th and left San Francisco the next day
Arrived by ship at
Fort Hare, Oahu, Hawaii Jan 31, 1944
Arrive Lake Battery Feb 13; J.J.
Area on Mar. 31
Arrive at Pearl Harbor May 24 (blew
up 2 ships sunk)
Loaded aboard LST 240 on May 24;
left West Lock, P.H. May 25
Departure
from Pearl Harbor on LST 240: switchboard duty. Learned how to type.
Left the ship with $10 in rummy winnings.
Was on the
LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship: USS LST-240.
Stop in Eniwetok Island on June 7
before departure for Saipan with arrival at Saipan on June 14th.
REALM OF THE
GOLDEN DRAGON
Know Ye, that pfc.
Harry G. Fenner, US ARMY on the 31st day of May 1944, on board the USS
LST 240, Latitude........., Longitude 180 degree E appeared on the THRESHOLD OF
THE FAR EAST, and having been duly inspected was accepted into the ANCIENT AND
SACRED ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON
Signed by 2 people Mystic Scribe, Order of the Golden Dragon
Stamped in red "USS LST 240 Office
c/o Fleet Sos Office
San Francisco, Calif.
Official Business
Three
battles with 532nd Field Artillery assigned to units as
described below
24th Army
corps artillery attached to 2nd marine division SAIPAN and TINIAN
(June 44)
96th army
attached to 6th Marine division LEYTE (Oct 44)
10th
Army OKINAWA – XXIV Artillery Corps
(April 45)
due
to leave for Japan when the war ended.
Dengue fever and hearing loss (no
medical exam on discharge, mom was unable to find medical evidence of hearing
loss in the late 40s while working at the VA in Rutland)
medals for sharpshooter and marksman:
!st Sargeant (unknown date of
promotion) serial number 11048844