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like to get a hold of some of the guys that I can remember, which are only two or three but I don't know how the heck to do that. Mr. Misenhimer Anything else that you can recall from World War II? Mr. Finley I can't think of too much off hand anymore. Oh yeah. When I got out, discharged, I was a PFC; they gave me Corporal stripes, which was nice. Then they encouraged me to reenter. That's why I said they talked about going into the Reserves and stuff. I didn't want to be obligated. If I had done that then I would have been in the Ko ean War probably. I didn't need anything like that. Mr. Misenhimer The unit that you were in was Headquarters Company, 4" Marines? Mr. Finley Yes. Always Headquarters Company and attached to some MAG group. I can't remember the names of them. I think they were the 11t and 15". I just don't remember. I used to have letters around here where I had written home but I can't find them anymore. Heat rash. I had pustules all over my body. These were the size of my little finger. I hadn't been messing around with the local women or anything. So I went to the medic
and he said, "What you've got is a bad case of heat rash. We can cure that." So they put me in the sick bay and this big old Corporal came in one day. In those days all they had to treat anything with was penicillin. So he had this needle about two inches long and had this vial filled up with this penicillin. He said, "Son, just turn over." He was an older man. "It's not going to hurt you. You're not going to feel a thing." By God I didn't
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Albert Finley. Finley joined the Marine Corps around December of 1943. He provides vivid details of his boot camp experiences. He served with Headquarters Company, 4th Marines, as a radar mechanic on Corsairs, repairing radio and radar gear. Beginning in September of 1944 they traveled to Guam, Kwajalein, Pearl Harbor and Majuro in the Marshall Islands. Finley shares a number of anecdotal stories, including working with POWs. He was discharged in the fall of 1946.
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