First page of the Brice Dooley archive.
Memories of Brice by Glenn
Hi Jackie:
I am glad I could enlighten you on such a significant day in history.
The following is approximately what I related to Gail, about Uncle Brice [talking about Dewayne ‘his dad”).
His dad was a quiet man who didn’t fit in (was common thing) well after WW2. Brice was the Coxswain on a landing craft in the Pacific Theater. If you saw “Saving Private Ryan” you got an idea of what the landing craft guys did. His education was the war and apparently both he and Uncle Jim Dooley learned to fight and or brawl while participating. I and Les (maybe) worked with him on the Wellington grain elevator construction project (White Construction Company). Brice went on to work for them for a unknown amount of years. I don’t remember Les for sure. Ray Chapman was there too. Ray & I must have been a 8th or 9th graders. (more…)