William T Walker Jr. Born March 22 1925 on the farm of
his GG Grandparents Georgianna M.Mc Cullough & Frank P.McCullough.of
Wheeler County, Ga. Erick Community. Lois Inez (Skelton) Walker
& William T Walker Sr. the parents of William, this their
first of four children.
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Bill, as he was later called, was raised on a farm and
spent most of his life on a small farm as a laborer starting
out at .50 Cents per day picking cotton & doing what ever
became necessary as the work around a farm is never done. |
Some time in the year of 1933, my father, a World War 1 veteran,
decided to move to my Grandmothers homested near Mc Rae Georgia
where there was a CCC Camp ( Civillian Conservation Corps.)
CCC was a goverment program started by Franklin D Rosevelt for
WW1 Veterans. They were going too build a State Park ( Little
Oak Mulgee) near by and Veterans would be paid a $1.00 Per Day
and room and board at a camp nearby. The family would live
in a house on my grandmothers farm. A short time went by and
my mother and father divorced and the family was split up. I
went to stay with an uncle nearby, the others to other relatives
and my mother keeping the baby brother. I stayed with my Uncle
ED. He had three boys and a very large farm. We all went to school
together and worked together on the farm.
Time pasesed and I was in High School at Wheeler County High
School when Pearl Harbor was bombed on Sunday morning, All the
boys near and above 18 years of age wanted to enlist into the
service. I was 17 at that time but the draft board told me that
I would be drafted as soon as I became of age in March.
That day came when my friends and neighbors invited me to
become a soldier in the United States Army. I was inducted
into the Army at Ft. McPherson Ga. near Atlanta, Ga. After a
few days going through the Induction Center I was sent by train
to Camp Hood, Texas for training at the Tank Destroyer Training
Center. This was the first time I had been away from home. I
did not know any one. I found myself in a strange enviroment
with free food, clothes & and $30.00 per month to spend as
I wished. It was thirteen weeks of making your own bed, doing
your own laundry, inspections, heat like I never has felt in
Texas, doing KP, Guard Duty, firing range and what ever they
decided we needed.
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