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Full Name: Harry W. Fieldsted
Spouse: Beverly Dawn Holder
Children: Billy Burke Shiner, Terry J., Gary, Tony Fieldsted
Branch of Service: U.S. Merchant Marines
Time Served: 1944- 1946 (World War II)
Training: Basic Training—Catalina Island; Portland, Oregon; Fireman 2nd Class, Fireman Water Tender; Certified Lifeboat Man
Where Served: South Pacific
Deceased: No
Where Living When Entered Service: Boneta, Utah
Drafted or Volunteer: Volunteered
Fall of 1944 I went to Salt Lake City to enlist in the Navy. Since the quota was full, I enlisted in the Merchant Marines. Basic training was on Catalina Island, off the coast of California. I then went to Portland, Oregon where I was assigned to the new ammunition cargo ship Victory SS Twin Falls. My job was to keep the engines maintained. I had to learn fast about the boilers, and how to keep the engines running the ships turbines. The ship was loaded with thousands of tons of ammunition that we hauled from the harbors to the war ships. We would travel with the third fleet in the South Pacific to restock them. Any explosion would have destroyed the ship and everything on it or around it. We were in Leyta Harbor in the Philippines when the war ended. I returned home January 1946.
Spouse: Beverly Dawn Holder
Children: Billy Burke Shiner, Terry J., Gary, Tony Fieldsted
Branch of Service: U.S. Merchant Marines
Time Served: 1944- 1946 (World War II)
Training: Basic Training—Catalina Island; Portland, Oregon; Fireman 2nd Class, Fireman Water Tender; Certified Lifeboat Man
Where Served: South Pacific
Deceased: No
Where Living When Entered Service: Boneta, Utah
Drafted or Volunteer: Volunteered
Fall of 1944 I went to Salt Lake City to enlist in the Navy. Since the quota was full, I enlisted in the Merchant Marines. Basic training was on Catalina Island, off the coast of California. I then went to Portland, Oregon where I was assigned to the new ammunition cargo ship Victory SS Twin Falls. My job was to keep the engines maintained. I had to learn fast about the boilers, and how to keep the engines running the ships turbines. The ship was loaded with thousands of tons of ammunition that we hauled from the harbors to the war ships. We would travel with the third fleet in the South Pacific to restock them. Any explosion would have destroyed the ship and everything on it or around it. We were in Leyta Harbor in the Philippines when the war ended. I returned home January 1946.