Scope and Contents Before his induction into the United States Army, Mr. Gooch had already left his home in rural Lauderdale County, Tennessee to attend high school in Ripley, Tennessee and began earning a living at the Millington Naval Air Base during the summers as well as at the Dyersburg Army Air Base in the evenings. Mr. Gooch gives an often blunt, but insightful account of his World War II military service. Knowing he would soon be drafted, Mr. Gooch describes how he began exploring military service as a...