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V S N;,vv PhotoGETS GIN—Kay A. C iprlpy, Ml, of Bakersfield, shows G., Martin, chief pharmacist's mate* wound received from an invendiary boinli during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Cierley was a construction boss on a navy project at the time of the raid. Today he enlisted in the navy s construction regiment* because the next time he meets the Japs he wants to be sure he's “got a gun, too.” (Official navy photo).LOCAL MAN IN NAVY TO REVENGE ATTACKrpjlE next time Ray Cierley meets a A Jap, he just wants to be sure liehas a gun in his hand.Foreman of a piledrivor unit of a construction gang' In Pearl Harbor during the attack on December 7, Cierley felt that his best as a civilian.'* wasn’t quite good enough.When Cierley raised his lighthand at the San Diego navy recruiting office to be sworn to duty, three fingers on the hand showed the ugly scars of a wound received from an incendiary bomb on that fateful Sabbath in Hawaii.On the job in the Pearl Harbor navy yard December 7, the 30-year-old Bakersfield man watched the attack from Its beginning, and immediately fell to in helping out in the best way he could.Our firm had some 25 pickup trucks in Pearl Harbor, and for three days following the attack, I drove one of them, which we had converted into an ambulance along with all the others, he said. While I felt that I was doing the best I could, there remained a sort of helpless feeling, and I decided that as soon as I could get things arranged. I’d get back to the mainland and start out again west—with a gun.”During the bombing, Cierley wasstruck by shrapnel from an incendiary bomb, and his wounds didn'theal for nearly four months. It’s the sulphur in them, I think, hesaid.Now a member of the navy’s construction regiment, Cierley will spend the greater part of his time in the service outside the continental limits of the United States. Which is all right with me, he said. That’s what I'm in this thing for.Father of two children. Cierley said that his wife will remain at their home at 115 West Warren street, Bakersfield, while he goes toNorfolk, Va., for an eight-week lr doctrination period before seeing at tion again.
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Bakersfield Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Mon, Jul 13, 1942
Page 8
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Clipped by
Daisy V.
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