Kenneth Hoyt enlisted in the Navy on Tuesday July 28, 1942 at Salt Lake and stayed there till Friday the 31st then left Salt Lake for San Diego and got there on Aug. 1, 1942. He got out of Boot Camp in Sept. and started to machinist's school there in San Diego on Sept. 21 st as a Seaman 2/c... He graduated from there on Jan. 8, 1943 with a score of 90.75%, and as machinist mate 2/c, then on Jan. 19th or 20th he left San Diego on the U.S.S. Pres. Monroe as a troop member for New Caledonia and got there on Feb. 5th. On Feb. 15 he went aboard the U.S.S. Fanning DD385. 0n March 31st reached New Zealand. On April 11th left New Zealand. On March 4th went to Suva, Fiji Islands. On June 11, 1943 left the U.S.S. Fanning. On June 13, 1943 left New Caledonia on the U.S.S. President Polk. June 28th reached San Francisco and called his mother on the phone about 6 PM and surprised her nearly out of her pants. Aug. 3rd left San Francisco to go on 15 day leave, got home on the 5th and left Nephi for San Francisco on Aug. 15th to go back. Ken and his brother Ballard got together on July 4, 1943 at San Francisco when Ken came back from the Pacific on his DD Fanning and Ballard got there from being in the Atlantic for 3 months. They had been on opposite sides of the world then got together and I think the Lord had a hand in this. Then after Ken had been home on the 15 day leave, went to Portland, Oregon and got there about the 17th of Aug. then to Bremerton, Washington, then from there on out to the Aleutians off Kiska Kodiak, Alaska. Kenneth Hoyt-Aug. 15, 1943 This was on the Transport U.S.S. Pres. Monroe, was gone. a year, then was transferred off that and then came back to the states after being in several battles along with Ballard, such as Mabein, Apamama, Kwajalein, around Saipan and at Guam and then Ken came back to San Pedro Aug. 22, 1944 and called me (mother) on the phone again which was a thrill, then got home on Sat. Aug. 26, 1944 on a 30 day leave and on Monday Aug. 29th took off for Driggs, Idaho with Clyde, Beth, Julia and mother. Kenneth Hoyt stayed aboard the Tucker D.D. 875 along the east coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean. Was on shore patrol duty in Portland, Maine when the end of World War 2 ended. Rode the train to Shoemaker, California where he was honorably discharged from the United States Navy on September 29, 1945. Earl Ballard Hoyt and Kenneth James Hoyt visited each other on their ships in the South Pacific Ocean in 1943. They met in Honolulu a few days before Christmas of 1943 and planned to spend Christmas together, but Ballard's ship-the Cruiser Mobile-s-sailed for the USA a few days before Christmas. .