Oral History Interview with Roger G. Anderson, March 16, 2012 Page: 37

                                
some rumors about a point system about your length of service and overseas service and
so on, you know. So we got to calculating whether we'd have enough points you know.
Mr. Misenhimer:
Then what?
Mr. Anderson:
Then of course went there and they checked us over for a couple three days to see that we
weren't going to infect the whole United States and we got a furlough to go home. I came
home for thirty days. In the meantime of course by that time things had been settled. The
Japanese had surrendered and so on and I finally got a telegram stating that I would no
longer be on detached service in the 22nd Group and to report to San Antonio, Texas for
discharge. So we went down there to get discharged and of course the government wasn't
ready for that many people to be released and we'd go down every day and check the list
and see if we were on the list to get discharged. And there was a notice on board... I
should say, in the meantime I told you our engineer was from Taylorville, Illinois and
while he was home on furlough he bought a car, a Plymouth business coupe and he had
driven it down to Texas to get discharged and he was going to get around and drive slow
coming home, you know. So they had said if you could get to Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
you'd probably get discharged quicker. So we signed up and drove to Sioux Falls, South

Dakota from San Antonio and got discharged right away. Came home and that ended my
career.
Mr. Misenhimer:
So what day were you discharged?
Mr. Anderson:

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