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          FlagsTechnician Fifth Grade Arthur J. MontemayorEighth Air Force
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1029th Signal Company

20th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, First Bombardment Division

Eighth Air Force

1942 - 1945

August 23, 1921 to September 1, 2019

Pre-WWII

Arthur J. Montemayor got a US Civil Service job as a messenger and teletype operator at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

1942

September 19:
Entered the Army

September 1942 to January 1943
: Basic training and courses in California. Because of his skills in operating teletype machines that he learned as a civilian in San Antonio, Texas, he was assigned to the Signal Corps as a teletype operator, although at one point he was sent to a school to learn to be an air traffic controller.

1943

January: Arrived at Tobyhanna Army Depot (Pennsylvania) and joined the 1029th Signal Company; to the 1029th as a teletype operator MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) 237. Reached the rank of Technician Fifth Grade.

August 9: Departed New York City on the Athlone Castle troop ship

August 17: Arrived Liverpool, England on the Athlone Castle troop ship.

August 18-19: Arrived at Kings Cliffe Army Airbase, where Arthur served with the 1029th Signal Company where he worked as a teletype operator, MOS 237

1945:

Arthur met Julia in Peterborough, England during the war and they married in 1945.

April: After the 1029th was disbanded, he was assigned to the 446th HQ and Base SV SQ. Air SV Group with orders to the Pacific and the war with Japan.

August 15: Japan surrendered.

August 26: Departed Southampton, Hampshire, England on the Queen Elizabeth ocean liner, which had been converted to a troop ship for the war.

August 31: Arrives at New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth among the first GIs to return to the US from Europe at war's end.

August 31: Arrived in New York City and departed for San Antonio, Texas.

November 9: Honorably discharged from the US Army.

The Rest of His Life

1945

November: Returned to his US Civil Service job at Brook Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.  He moved into Civilian Personnel and spent the next 32 years in personnel, and had assignments in San Antonio, Texas; Heidelberg, Germany; Kaiserslautern, Germany; Verona, Italy; Frankfurt, Germany; and Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

1947:

January: Julia gets passage to the U.S. aboard the Queen Elizabeth.

1977

Retired from the Department of Army Civil Service in 1977

2019

September 1: Passed away at age 98. .
All material not in the public domain Copyright 2023 Leonard H. Cizewski
and Roger Montemeyor

Last Major Update:
Minor Revision or Correction: November 23, 2023
Posted: November 21, 2023
Last Reviewed:

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Text by Roger Montemeyor, son of Technician Fifth Grade Arthur J. Montemayor
Edited by Leonard H. Cizewski