Oral History Interview with Baine Kerr, May 4, 1993 Page: 6
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sent some to Iceland, some to the Canary Islands, or
various places of that type for some specialized kind
of duty, but that was just a very small number who did
that.
I chose the West Coast because I lived in Texas,
and I wanted to go through that way. At this point I
got married while I was in the officer training course
--in June--and my wife lived in San Antonio--her
family. We were married while I was at Indiantown Gap
because her family originally all came from around
Lewisburg, West Virginia, which is right on the
Virginia line, in the southeastern part near White
Sulphur Springs. So, we were married there. They let
you travel from Indiantown Gap to Philadelphia on your
own. You could make your own arrangements, and that
let you have a weekend, in effect. So, I took the
train down, and we got married on Saturday night, and
my brother, who was an FBI agent in Washington at the
time, and my mother came up for the wedding. They
picked us up about 5:30 in the morning, and we drove to
Washington and caught a train to Philadelphia--bighoneymoon (chuckle).
Daniels: When and where had you met?
Kerr: Oh, we had met at school--at the university--and we
were planning to get married, but I felt I needed to
have a job that paid at least $125 a month. We6
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Kerr, Baine. Oral History Interview with Baine Kerr, May 4, 1993, text, May 4, 1993; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1606360/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.