Ricketts, Maurice

Ricketts attended Fremont Vocational High school in Lander, Wyoming, and joined the National Guards Horse Calvary at 16. After a 29 day encampment with our Rag Tag Army, 1940, he joined the regular Navy for six years, and was happy, proud and obedient. He was assigned to a destroyer as a deck hand going everywhere at a time of a national war-time emergency; combat experience in the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Pacific. Naval occupation in China. He attended several Ordinance Service Schools as an honor student, became a first class petty officer. He attended Real Estate school and b...