So he put us to work, putting in anti-aircraft emplacements all around the perimeter of the harbor, and in strategic places. Ordinarily Navy regulations would be that I'd have to get a tractor to pull an air compressor from place to place. But that morning the fellows'd just get around the air compressor, and just push it from emplacement to emplacement. Dragging their hoses and jack-hammers with them. We got that complete and I turned back to my regular Navy bosses and they said that I should sand bag these two buildings that we had just completed.
Sand bag the entrances and so on.
They told us what to do and so on. I had a Japanese boy there, just maybe 18 years old. They shouldn't do this. We got all the things sand bagged, and then we were put on a detail, on a fire watch on about a 5 acre supply dump that had all kinds of lumber and timber and stuff like that. We stayed there all evening.