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exciting and make a little extra money, and about the
only thing I was qualified for or could see that I could
do was be a diver. So I made an application --I don't
remember if it was oral or written--to try to be a
qualified diver. So the chief who was in charge of me
as a carpenter says, "Oh, no, you ain't got time to do
that. You've got work to do here. He says, "If I
happen to need you for some carpenter work here, you're
going to be off on a diving excursion, and I won't have
you here, so I won't approve of it. (chuckle) Anyway,
it turned out that his boss was the diving officer. The
carpenter warrant officer in charge of the diving
operation was also over me and also over him, so he went
ahead and put me in, anyway, and made me a diver and
qualified me back in about June or July of 1941. But I
didn't get the extra pay until about December, 1941,
because our pay billet didn't come open. You know,
everything went according to pay billet. You could
qualify, and you could be doing a job for several months
or a year before you actually started receiving the pay
or it actually went on your record. It didn't go onyour record that you was a diver until you started
receiving pay. So I think around something in November,
1941, I started receiving the pay. My records indicate
it was somewhere in that area. It was before the attack
on Pearl Harbor, anyway.13
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, Joseph C. Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989, book, September 19, 1989; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137897/m1/15/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.