Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 Page: 26
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Marcello:
Turner:
Marcello:
Turner:at least more alert out in there than that.
Okay, this brings us into that weekend of December 7,
and, of course, we want to go in to this in as much
detail as you can remember. Describe for me what your
routine was on the Saturday of December 6, 1941. What
did you do that day?
There was no work. That was a holiday. Saturdays and
Sundays was holidays. There wasn't any work. I was
aboard. My liberty didn't start until Sunday morning at
8:00. At 0800 was when my liberty started.
What did you do aboard ship that day?
That Saturday probably all I did was just visit around,
and I might have been doing some little something in the
shop. We worked on our own thing. We made little
trinkets, airplanes, footlockers, or all kinds of stuff.
Maybe you studied for your next exam. That was one of
the biggest things because the billets were always open
for rate advancement. So we probably studied. I used
to play a lot of poker. Of course, back before the war,
there wasn't much money, so you used chips. Of course,
after the war started, over in the Pacific, well, wewere allowed to put the money right on the table. But
we used chips and played poker. We'd play dominoes,
forty-two. We'd sit around and just more or less visit
on Saturday.
But Sunday, now, was my day for liberty, so I was in26
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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/m1/28/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.