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I know where he was, but I did not get to see him. They were there and within a week, he went back home. That was the end of John Kennedy. I got there, I know he was there yet, but I didn't get to see him. Mr. Misenhimer: Did you get in to those islands around like New Georgia or Ghizo or any of those? Mr. Hall: I don't think so, no. We stuck pretty tightly around Bougainville because that was where the action was. Mr. Misenhimer: Right, it had moved up there by then. Mr. Hall: The Japanese had a huge, huge... Mr. Misenhimer: Base up there, huh? Mr. Hall: They had everything, and on the Bougainville it was the same way. They had two huge airfields: one on the north and one on the south, and we were right in the middle. We'd have to move out and get them and anything that moved up and down that line we had to work on.
Mr. Misenhimer: Did you ever attack any large ships? Mr. Hall: No, I did not. They had been... in that area there were really no large ships anymore. They'd all been sunk, but you heard the story of the combat at Ironbottom Sound that was right in there.
Transcript of an oral interview with Arelius Hall and his daughter Margaret. He discusses joining the Navy and becoming a Quartermaster on PT-246, being stationed in the Pacific and doing patrols around Bougainville and seeing other damaged PT boats coming into harbour.
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