Harold "Bud" Heym

“I enlisted when I was 17 years old in Richmond, Virginia and went to boot camp in Sampson, New York. I was part of 1,000-man group that was sent to Camp Pendleton, transferred to San Francisco to be shipped directly to Saipan in the Marietas Islands, Philippines. Nine-hundred-eighty of the men went to sea and I was picked in a group of twenty men who ran the Navy Piers in Saipan. I served in the administration office for the pier.”