We did get to handle a top secret shipment known as ‘big boys,’ which we found a month later to be the atomic bombs on their way to Japan. Beyond all this training, my only duty assignment was at an ammunition depot in Port Chicago, Calif., supervising the loading of ammunition aboard merchant ships for transport to the Pacific. With my commission in January ’45, I had more training in Washington, D.C., and Hingham, Mass. “I then went through midshipman school on an old cruiser refitted for training berthed on the Hudson River and affiliated with additional classes at Columbia University. I remained at RPI on a continuous schedule without vacation or downtime from July 1, 1943, to October ’44 and completed sufficient credits for my 3rd and 4th year of college, and then was awarded a B.Ch.E.
“You know the full routine we experienced there.
Charles Peters sent his life history beginning with college here are excerpts:Īfter his sophomore year at Syracuse University he received Naval orders to report to RPI in Troy.
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