Andrew Greener
Army
Yaphank
Andrew Greener was
inducted into the Army in Jan. 1943 at Camp Upton. From Upton he was
sent to Vancouver, Washington for basic training. Andrew was then
sent to Florida where he trained with the 1497th Corp
Construction Unit. The unit was sent to San Francisco where it
embarked for Okinawa. Arriving at Okinawa they were put to work
rebuilding the port, which had been destroyed during the taking of
the island. Once the island was secured they began to build tankers
that would be used for carrying oil, preparing for an invasion of
Japan. With the dropping of the atomic bomb the invasion never
occurred. Greener was discharged from the service in April 1946 in
Indiana. Returning to Yaphank he worked at the Brookhaven National
Laboratory and was a member of the Yaphank Fire Department.