His full name was Horace Bernard Carson but he went by "Jack". He was born March 10, 1923 at Healdton, OK and was the son of Tom and Willie Ruth (Jones) Carson.
Jack married 1st, Kathryn Lewis on Oct. 12, 1939 at El Reno, OK and had three children: Jackie, Tommy and Johnny. They were divorced in 1967. He was married 2nd to Mary in 1971 at Reno, NV.
Jack Carson was a WW II U.S. Navy veteran and received an honorable discharge. He was a Coxswain (T) (CB) USNR. He was discharged from the U.S. Naval Personnel Separation Center, Shoemaker, California on November 5, 1945; discharge document #43897 San Francisco, California.
The rating of Coxswain according to the 'U.S. Navy, 1775-1969' was re-designated as Boatswain’s Mate, 3rd Class in 1948. In our modern Navy it is an E-4 rating.
I know little of Uncle Jack’s military service except what My Dad (B. B. Carson) told me; and it was that Jack was in the “Seabees” and served in the Mariana Islands during the war. I've seen a document that listed his service number as #671 50 21.
The “Seabees” an acronym for the initials CB, stood for Construction Battalion and was created on March 5, 1942. The force was recruited from the civilian construction trades and the personnel who were deployed to the South and Central Pacific were trained at Port Hueneme near Oxnard, Ventura Co., CA.
In the Central Pacific, where Uncle Jack was deployed, a series of important battles were fought in the Mariana Islands; Saipan (June 1944), Guam (July 1944) and Tinian (Aug. 1944). Guam, the largest of the Marianas, was turned into a base for Allied operations and is still a U.S. Territory.
After these battles, Navy LST’s landed the heavy equipment which the Construction Battalion used to construct and pave several large airfields on Guam and Tinian. From these airfields Army Air Corps B-29 bombers were launched to attack targets in the Western Pacific and on mainland Japan.
It was on Aug. 6, 1945 that the B-29 “Enola Gay” took-off from an airfield on Tinian carrying in its bomb-bay a top secret weapon, the atomic bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, another B-29 flying from Tinian carried the second atomic bomb “Fat Man” which was dropped on Nagasaki thus ending the war in the Pacific. “V-J Day” was announced on Aug. 14, 1945 and the surrender document was signed on Sept. 2, 1945.
The Seabees returning from duty to the United States were sent to the Construction Battalion Recuperation and Replacement Center at Camp Parks, Shoemaker, California where they were reformed and reorganized and the men assigned to other battalions hence the “T” indicating temporary assignment when Uncle Jack was discharged on Nov. 5, 1945 at San Francisco, CA.
After the war, Jack became a fireman and lived for a number of years at Stockton, CA and then moved to Flagstaff, AZ after he retired. He moved to Choctaw, OK around 1978, then to the nearby Harrah/Newalla area.
Sometime later, he bought his brother Lonnie’s farm in Chanute, KS, lived there for awhile, and then moved back to McCloud, OK with his wife Mary.
Uncle Jack died on Monday morning March 15, 2010 at the hospital in Shawnee, OK of cancer. His sons Jackie and Tommy had came from California to visit for his birthday and were at his bedside when he passed away. There were no services or newspaper obituary and his body was cremated. Apparently those were his wishes.
My older brother, Jim took his ashes and buried them in the family plot near my oldest brother Lonnie's grave at the Schwartz Cemetery in rural eastern Cleveland County.
Jack married 1st, Kathryn Lewis on Oct. 12, 1939 at El Reno, OK and had three children: Jackie, Tommy and Johnny. They were divorced in 1967. He was married 2nd to Mary in 1971 at Reno, NV.
Jack Carson was a WW II U.S. Navy veteran and received an honorable discharge. He was a Coxswain (T) (CB) USNR. He was discharged from the U.S. Naval Personnel Separation Center, Shoemaker, California on November 5, 1945; discharge document #43897 San Francisco, California.
The rating of Coxswain according to the 'U.S. Navy, 1775-1969' was re-designated as Boatswain’s Mate, 3rd Class in 1948. In our modern Navy it is an E-4 rating.
I know little of Uncle Jack’s military service except what My Dad (B. B. Carson) told me; and it was that Jack was in the “Seabees” and served in the Mariana Islands during the war. I've seen a document that listed his service number as #671 50 21.
The “Seabees” an acronym for the initials CB, stood for Construction Battalion and was created on March 5, 1942. The force was recruited from the civilian construction trades and the personnel who were deployed to the South and Central Pacific were trained at Port Hueneme near Oxnard, Ventura Co., CA.
In the Central Pacific, where Uncle Jack was deployed, a series of important battles were fought in the Mariana Islands; Saipan (June 1944), Guam (July 1944) and Tinian (Aug. 1944). Guam, the largest of the Marianas, was turned into a base for Allied operations and is still a U.S. Territory.
After these battles, Navy LST’s landed the heavy equipment which the Construction Battalion used to construct and pave several large airfields on Guam and Tinian. From these airfields Army Air Corps B-29 bombers were launched to attack targets in the Western Pacific and on mainland Japan.
It was on Aug. 6, 1945 that the B-29 “Enola Gay” took-off from an airfield on Tinian carrying in its bomb-bay a top secret weapon, the atomic bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, another B-29 flying from Tinian carried the second atomic bomb “Fat Man” which was dropped on Nagasaki thus ending the war in the Pacific. “V-J Day” was announced on Aug. 14, 1945 and the surrender document was signed on Sept. 2, 1945.
The Seabees returning from duty to the United States were sent to the Construction Battalion Recuperation and Replacement Center at Camp Parks, Shoemaker, California where they were reformed and reorganized and the men assigned to other battalions hence the “T” indicating temporary assignment when Uncle Jack was discharged on Nov. 5, 1945 at San Francisco, CA.
After the war, Jack became a fireman and lived for a number of years at Stockton, CA and then moved to Flagstaff, AZ after he retired. He moved to Choctaw, OK around 1978, then to the nearby Harrah/Newalla area.
Sometime later, he bought his brother Lonnie’s farm in Chanute, KS, lived there for awhile, and then moved back to McCloud, OK with his wife Mary.
Uncle Jack died on Monday morning March 15, 2010 at the hospital in Shawnee, OK of cancer. His sons Jackie and Tommy had came from California to visit for his birthday and were at his bedside when he passed away. There were no services or newspaper obituary and his body was cremated. Apparently those were his wishes.
My older brother, Jim took his ashes and buried them in the family plot near my oldest brother Lonnie's grave at the Schwartz Cemetery in rural eastern Cleveland County.
His full name was Horace Bernard Carson but he went by "Jack". He was born March 10, 1923 at Healdton, OK and was the son of Tom and Willie Ruth (Jones) Carson.
Jack married 1st, Kathryn Lewis on Oct. 12, 1939 at El Reno, OK and had three children: Jackie, Tommy and Johnny. They were divorced in 1967. He was married 2nd to Mary in 1971 at Reno, NV.
Jack Carson was a WW II U.S. Navy veteran and received an honorable discharge. He was a Coxswain (T) (CB) USNR. He was discharged from the U.S. Naval Personnel Separation Center, Shoemaker, California on November 5, 1945; discharge document #43897 San Francisco, California.
The rating of Coxswain according to the 'U.S. Navy, 1775-1969' was re-designated as Boatswain’s Mate, 3rd Class in 1948. In our modern Navy it is an E-4 rating.
I know little of Uncle Jack’s military service except what My Dad (B. B. Carson) told me; and it was that Jack was in the “Seabees” and served in the Mariana Islands during the war. I've seen a document that listed his service number as #671 50 21.
The “Seabees” an acronym for the initials CB, stood for Construction Battalion and was created on March 5, 1942. The force was recruited from the civilian construction trades and the personnel who were deployed to the South and Central Pacific were trained at Port Hueneme near Oxnard, Ventura Co., CA.
In the Central Pacific, where Uncle Jack was deployed, a series of important battles were fought in the Mariana Islands; Saipan (June 1944), Guam (July 1944) and Tinian (Aug. 1944). Guam, the largest of the Marianas, was turned into a base for Allied operations and is still a U.S. Territory.
After these battles, Navy LST’s landed the heavy equipment which the Construction Battalion used to construct and pave several large airfields on Guam and Tinian. From these airfields Army Air Corps B-29 bombers were launched to attack targets in the Western Pacific and on mainland Japan.
It was on Aug. 6, 1945 that the B-29 “Enola Gay” took-off from an airfield on Tinian carrying in its bomb-bay a top secret weapon, the atomic bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, another B-29 flying from Tinian carried the second atomic bomb “Fat Man” which was dropped on Nagasaki thus ending the war in the Pacific. “V-J Day” was announced on Aug. 14, 1945 and the surrender document was signed on Sept. 2, 1945.
The Seabees returning from duty to the United States were sent to the Construction Battalion Recuperation and Replacement Center at Camp Parks, Shoemaker, California where they were reformed and reorganized and the men assigned to other battalions hence the “T” indicating temporary assignment when Uncle Jack was discharged on Nov. 5, 1945 at San Francisco, CA.
After the war, Jack became a fireman and lived for a number of years at Stockton, CA and then moved to Flagstaff, AZ after he retired. He moved to Choctaw, OK around 1978, then to the nearby Harrah/Newalla area.
Sometime later, he bought his brother Lonnie’s farm in Chanute, KS, lived there for awhile, and then moved back to McCloud, OK with his wife Mary.
Uncle Jack died on Monday morning March 15, 2010 at the hospital in Shawnee, OK of cancer. His sons Jackie and Tommy had came from California to visit for his birthday and were at his bedside when he passed away. There were no services or newspaper obituary and his body was cremated. Apparently those were his wishes.
My older brother, Jim took his ashes and buried them in the family plot near my oldest brother Lonnie's grave at the Schwartz Cemetery in rural eastern Cleveland County.
Jack married 1st, Kathryn Lewis on Oct. 12, 1939 at El Reno, OK and had three children: Jackie, Tommy and Johnny. They were divorced in 1967. He was married 2nd to Mary in 1971 at Reno, NV.
Jack Carson was a WW II U.S. Navy veteran and received an honorable discharge. He was a Coxswain (T) (CB) USNR. He was discharged from the U.S. Naval Personnel Separation Center, Shoemaker, California on November 5, 1945; discharge document #43897 San Francisco, California.
The rating of Coxswain according to the 'U.S. Navy, 1775-1969' was re-designated as Boatswain’s Mate, 3rd Class in 1948. In our modern Navy it is an E-4 rating.
I know little of Uncle Jack’s military service except what My Dad (B. B. Carson) told me; and it was that Jack was in the “Seabees” and served in the Mariana Islands during the war. I've seen a document that listed his service number as #671 50 21.
The “Seabees” an acronym for the initials CB, stood for Construction Battalion and was created on March 5, 1942. The force was recruited from the civilian construction trades and the personnel who were deployed to the South and Central Pacific were trained at Port Hueneme near Oxnard, Ventura Co., CA.
In the Central Pacific, where Uncle Jack was deployed, a series of important battles were fought in the Mariana Islands; Saipan (June 1944), Guam (July 1944) and Tinian (Aug. 1944). Guam, the largest of the Marianas, was turned into a base for Allied operations and is still a U.S. Territory.
After these battles, Navy LST’s landed the heavy equipment which the Construction Battalion used to construct and pave several large airfields on Guam and Tinian. From these airfields Army Air Corps B-29 bombers were launched to attack targets in the Western Pacific and on mainland Japan.
It was on Aug. 6, 1945 that the B-29 “Enola Gay” took-off from an airfield on Tinian carrying in its bomb-bay a top secret weapon, the atomic bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, another B-29 flying from Tinian carried the second atomic bomb “Fat Man” which was dropped on Nagasaki thus ending the war in the Pacific. “V-J Day” was announced on Aug. 14, 1945 and the surrender document was signed on Sept. 2, 1945.
The Seabees returning from duty to the United States were sent to the Construction Battalion Recuperation and Replacement Center at Camp Parks, Shoemaker, California where they were reformed and reorganized and the men assigned to other battalions hence the “T” indicating temporary assignment when Uncle Jack was discharged on Nov. 5, 1945 at San Francisco, CA.
After the war, Jack became a fireman and lived for a number of years at Stockton, CA and then moved to Flagstaff, AZ after he retired. He moved to Choctaw, OK around 1978, then to the nearby Harrah/Newalla area.
Sometime later, he bought his brother Lonnie’s farm in Chanute, KS, lived there for awhile, and then moved back to McCloud, OK with his wife Mary.
Uncle Jack died on Monday morning March 15, 2010 at the hospital in Shawnee, OK of cancer. His sons Jackie and Tommy had came from California to visit for his birthday and were at his bedside when he passed away. There were no services or newspaper obituary and his body was cremated. Apparently those were his wishes.
My older brother, Jim took his ashes and buried them in the family plot near my oldest brother Lonnie's grave at the Schwartz Cemetery in rural eastern Cleveland County.
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