Gynn Raymond Harris
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Gynn Raymond Harris was born on February 5, 1926 in Enterprise, Oklahoma. He was the son of a farmer and took pride in helping his family on their farm. He was a hard worker and took naturally to the demands of military life when he joined the United States Army in 1948. He specialized in communications as a supply technician. He helped to train new recruits as they prepared to go to Korea, though he never went himself. He was glad to have performed his duties and do his part to help advance others during the Korean War.
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Wartime Assignment
Gynn Harris describes his schooling. He explains his various duties at Camp Stoneman as a Communications Supply Technician. He shares his pay and what he did with his money.
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Video Transcript
Harris, Gynn
00:03:34
Transcribed by Emily Ezell on February 19, 2025
00:00:00[Beginning of Recorded Material]
Gynn Harris: I was born February 5, 1926.
Interviewer: And…
GH: And I was born in, uh, Oklahoma, uh, a little community called Enterprise.
I was a farmer.
I: Right…
GH: Uh, my dad had a farm, and uh, I worked on the farm driving a tractor…
00:00:30
GH: Doing all kinds of work you know that…farmwork which is kind of hard.
I: Mmm hmm.
GH: And uh, during the harvest season we get up at four o’clock in the morning
and go and milk the cows, uh,
00:01:00
GH: Then we would go to work which was, uh, gathering the crops, and uh, uh,
we would, uh, work till sometimes eleven o’clock at night. September 1948
00:01:30
GH: I am not sure of the date.
I: Mmm hmm.
GH: I went to a three month school to be a communication supply technician
and that school lasted three months. It was a general who went to one of
those islands over in the Pacific and he had seen a lot of electronic stuff
laying out on the beach and, uh, he requested fifty people to go to this
school and identify this stuff and put it back in stock.
00:02:06
GH: So that was the first job there at the base accountable and, uh, when they
found out that I had been to an Army school well they said that you were
going to take care of all the Army stuff, you know the engineering, the
quarter master, the ordinances and whatever…
00:02:32
GH: And, so uh, that’s I did that for I guess a couple of years. I never went to
Korea.
I: Oh you never went to Korea?
GH: I never went. We usually sent the ones that, uh, this new in the squadron
that wasn’t acquainted with, uh, the work so we would send them to Korea.
00:02:56
GH: I got something like a hundred fifty and month but I think I had a, I had a,
uh, an allotment going to my folks back home. When the war started, we
worked seven days a week…
I: Uh ha…
GH: sending…our fighter group went in a matter of days…
I: Um hmmm
GH: Down to Itazuke and they were flying, you know, over Korea, and uh, that’s
what we did.
[End of Recorded Material]