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With Japan’s surface navy virtually destroyed, the main threat came from the air, especially the infamous kamikazes. On 29 April during one of the frequent air raids, our ship’s gunners shot down their first enemy plane as it headed for another ship. Whenever a Japanese aircraft flew in at low level, gunners on all 13 FROM COUNTRY BOY TO COMPANY PRESIDENT the surrounding vessels in the anchorage began shooting at it— sort of like the proverbial circular firing squad. Inevitably, this kind of firepower caused what has become known as friendlyfire casualties.

Roosevelt’s New Deal agricultural programs required an efficient way to ensure farmers did not exceed quotas of certain crops for which they received subsidy payments. With a recommendation from Uncle Harold, the county hired me at 60 cents an hour to help monitor crop acreage. Airplanes shot overhead photographs of farmland from an altitude of 15,000 feet. On the ground, we studied big prints of these images to identify fields for measuring the extent of various crops. This application of aerial photography was my first experience with remote sensing, a sphere of technology that occupied a good fraction of my later life.

I inherited an erector set from Harold Jr. and eventually acquired enough parts to build a skyscraper with an electric motor to lift an elevator. One year my Christmas present was a chemistry set of the type no longer sold because of safety concerns. Inevitably, I became interested in automobiles and bought an old Model T for all of seven dollars. The body was in bad shape, but I modified it with wooden boards into a primitive pickup truck that I could drive on the farm. Once, Harold allowed me to pick out a calf to raise.

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