Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Sauer, May 15, 1976 Page: 4
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Sauer
4Marcello:
Sauer:
Mar cello :
Sauer:What sort of training did you undergo to become a radio-
man?
Well, I had to take Morse code and learn how to receive
it. I also had to learn how to take care of my typewriter.
I became rather adept at it, and I became typewriter
repairman plus my other duties. Then . . . oh, I was
in that about two months, I guess, and they needed a radio
material man working in the transplant room to take care
of the equipment.
What sort of a job is this called? Radio material man?
Yes. That was the technical end of it. One was sending
and receiving--radioman--and the other one was technical
end of it. So I decided that I would try for that because
it fascinated me--radio material--and I went into it.
And then some months after that--I forget how long
--I went in to get me a haircut one day, and the head
barber says, "How about trying out for a barber?" I
said, "Shoot, I have never cut a head of hair before
in my life." He said, "You look like you might be able
to cut hair." He said, "You know, you get quite a bit
more pay up here." Of course, at that time money always
looked good because you never had any. So I applied for
a barber's job, and sure enough, they accepted me. I was
a barber, then, until Pearl Harbor. After Pearl Harbor,
I went back into radio material and went on with that.
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Sauer, Oscar E. Oral History Interview with Oscar H. Sauer, May 15, 1976, book, May 15, 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306809/m1/6/?q=%221976-05%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.