"Lines, lines, lines - the bane of our existence here. Yesterday was pay day - there were two lines stretching more than five blocks long - and with the end not in sight." (Correspondence, 8/16/45)
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Irving Oblas |
Irving Oblas, 1944 [detail] | World War II, 1939-1946
Navy
19th Fleet
Naval Training Station Sampson and PSC Lido Beach, New York; USN RS Shoemaker, California; Bremerton Group, Washington
Yeoman First Class
New York, NY
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Irving Oblas never left the States during World War II, but his voluminous correspondence with his wife offers invaluable descriptions of daily life in the Navy. In August 1945, on his way to California to be shipped out to Japan, Oblas mailed his wife a postcard from every stop his troop train made. He made it to San Francisco in time for V-J Day and served out his hitch decommissioning ships in the port of Bremerton, Washington.
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