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to be in engineering, but I didn't know just what field of engineering even after I started
college. After I got out of the Army, I enrolled in electrical engineering because I had
been a radar repairman while I was in the service. I went to service school and learned
how to be a radar repairman. So with that electrical background--electronics background--
why I thought maybe electrical engineering would be the right field for me but after a year
or so of that I decided that wasn't right. So I went into--moved over to civil engineering.
The
and Montana State
Q ..
You were drafted into the Army after high school?
A ..
Right.
Q ..
So you were in from January 1945 until August 1946. Were you in a Signal Corps unit?
A ..
No. Well, I first went in the infantry. I went through an infantry basic and some
advanced infantry training. Then I got sent over to Hawaii. Actually we were en route
to Okinawa as replacements for the infantry that were going to go in on Japan when they
attacked Japan.
About that time marry S] Truman decided that he was going to drop the atomic bomb, so
we didn't even go to Okinawa. They dropped us off in Hawaii. A couple of months later
they dropped the bomb on Japan. Otherwise I would have probably been in there on an
assault ship trying to get into Japan.
Q ..
Which would not have been happy for a lot of people.
A ..
Right, that's for sure.
Q ..
When you decided to go to Montana State, was that because your family was in Montana
now?
A ..
Yes, that's true.
Q ..
A lot of the people I've talked to who became civil engineers in the
credited their
ability to become engineers to the GI bill. Did you go to college on that basis, too?
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