John W. Morris
Q:
I was just trying to pin down the time.
A:
It had to have been in 1945, 1946, 1947. Early 1947 maybe. Yes. I left in 1947 to come home and
get married and go to school.
Q:
How would you assess General Casey from your experiences there?
A:
We were all very impressed with General Casey. I didn't see that much of him, incidentally,
except at meetings. I would go to all the meetings as the Air Force engineer liaison with the
Army. I was always the junior officer. Most of the
others were colonels and generals.
Q: Are there any other aspects of the Tokyo
assignment that you would like to cover?
A:
There are a couple of other points and events
in Tokyo which might be of interest before
leaving that assignment.
First, I mentioned meeting my wife in the
Philippines. Gerry had come to Tokyo several
months before I did. When I arrived we
renewed our acquaintance, and from the
spring of 1946 to her departure for the United
States on the 23d of November 1946, we saw
a lot of each other and decided we would be
married back in the States. We thought about
being married in Japan and staying there
because it was an excellent time and place to
have a family and to be together. The living
conditions would have been very attractive,
and we had learned the lifestyle and found
ourselves very happy in Japan-Tokyo
particularly.
However, I had been notified that I could
attend graduate school at the University of
Iowa in pursuit of a master's degree. That, to
me, was important, and so, after discussing it,
we decided that the best arrangement would
be to be married on my return in the spring of
1947.
The wedding date was set for 12 May, which
happened to be the date on which my parents
had been married, at Saint John's Church in
Wilmington, North Carolina. My departure
from Japan was planned for early April, and
Geraldine King, from Wilmington, North
that would allow me ample time to attend to
Carolina, as an Army nurse in Tokyo, Japan,
the preliminary arrangements necessary for
in 1946, a year before her marriage to
the wedding.
Captain John W. Morris.
Unfortunately, t h e T e x a s C i t y d i s a s t e r
occurred, and the servicemen in Japan with
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