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George
Holderby: Abstract | Full
Story | Images
and Artifacts
Please meet George D. Holderby, Petty Officer First Class, Electricians
Mate, United States Navy, World War II.
Before World War II, George
D. Holderby was a student for two years at Arkansas Tech in
electrical engineering, but money became
tight and he headed for Globe, Arizona, to work with his brother.
One year later, he moved to Burbank, California, and started
work at Lockheed Aircraft Company on the assembly line building
P-38 fighter planes. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
in December of 1941, Mr. Holderby enlisted in the U.S. Navy in
Los Angeles. His education in electrical engineering qualified
him to become an Electricians Mate Third Class and earned him
an immediate active duty assignment instead of being sent to
infantry boot camp. Right after Mr. Holderby enlisted, he was
given shore leave prior to active duty, and he returned to his
birthplace, Newark (new-ARK), Arkansas. On this trip home, he
met his wife to be, Mildred Parrott. Months later, he proposed
to her by letter, she accepted also by letter, and they married
October 7, 1942, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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