Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978 Page: 30
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Lowe
30still have a little bit of it every now and then when I'm
excited. But we were loaded aboard the . . . it was a
"presidential" ship. It was a commercial ship, and I believe
it was the President Jackson. There was another ship, and
they loaded up two ships of Pearl Harbor wounded--the very
first ones to get out of there. We left there, as well as
I recall, unescorted, and we were zigzagging . . . and, of
course, I'm down below in my bunk, and I don't see anything at
all. All I know is what I hear.
We arrived in San Francisco on Christmas Day, 1941, and
they loaded us on some sort of a barge or something or other,
and we went up to Vallejo to the Mare Island Naval Hospital,
where I stayed until I finally recuperated from wounds received
in Pearl Harbor, which was in April sometime.
Then did they ship you back out to the fleet again?
Well, they sent me to what they called Goat Island. I was
assigned to go back to this ship , the Neosho.
You talked about sleeping in hammocks, well, back in those
days that's sure enough sleeping in hammocks--high--at Goat
Island. It was a receiving station there. If you're familiar
with San Francisco, it's this island right in the center of the
bay. I had a little luck there. During this time, I talked
with my mother and father.
I was going to ask you when they received word that you'd beenMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Lowe, John, Jr. Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978, text, August 7, 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529186/m1/32/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.