Oral History Interviews with Charley L. Pryor, 1972-1973 Page: 2
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and lived in and around the vicinity of Lubbock until
I reached age eighteen. At age eighteen I dropped
out of school and joined the United States Marine
Corps in January, 1939. I took my training in San
Diego and was stationed there in San Diego for some
period of about a year and a half. Well, it was not
quite a year and a half. In February, 1940, I was
transferred to the Far East and went aboard the USS
Augusta in Shanghai, China, in March of 1940. We
stayed in China throughout most of that year operating
in and out of Shanghai for brief periods of time. We
spent most of the summer in around the northern
Chinese ports. We were in and out of Weihaiwei and
Chinwangtao and primarily operated out of the port of
Tsingtao. While we were in and around Tsingtao, we
observed the Japanese preparing for war. This was a
Japanese-occupied city. We came in contact with them,
and you might say that as we played, they were working
for war. They, of course, were on a war footing. We
watched them train during this period of time. Two
or three incidents came up that, I guess, required
the attention of the admiral that involved certain of
our American personnel--fleet personnel--not just
Augusta sailors or marines, but the Augusta was the
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interviews with Charley L. Pryor, 1972-1973, book, 1972-11/1973-02; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306969/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.