My Life Adventure

About the Book

The autobiographical story of a young man who was born into a “Sharecropping” family in Texas just before the Great Depression. Sherwood describes some of the details of his daily life and times growing up in a large family living on the edge of survival, both good times and bad. He takes us through his childhood, adolescence and coming of age in rural Texas. Seeing no future in sharecropping, he joins his brothers in California where he tells how he was able to obtain a much prized high school diploma despite major obstacles. The country now at war, he tells how he prepared to serve his country and the three years he spent island hopping in the Pacific during WWII in a unique squadron of the United States Army Air Corps. The end of the war is not the end of his story, though. With the hope and determination that carried him and his generation through so much, he tells how he re-entered civilian life in Sacramento, California, went back to work at McClellan AFB and then met and married the woman who has been his wife for over sixty years.

About the Author

When Sherwood was a young boy, he learned many of the values and goals that defined his young life while helping his sharecropping family survive hard times, even before the Great Depression affected the country. Seeing life as a great adventure, Sherwood quickly learned that meeting difficult challenges were, in reality, opportunities to gain knowledge and open doors to a life away from sharecropping. Taking advantage of every opportunity that came his way and by making one or two of his own, Sherwood left Texas and made a whole new future for himself in California, but first he had to go to war.

He entered the the US Army Air Corps in November 1942 and except for Basic Training he served the rest of his time in the South and North Pacific Areas until the WW II ended. His tour begin in NewCaledonia and hopscopping among many islands brought him to Okinawa three months before the war ended. A few weeks after that he served a period of Temporary Detachment in Manila, Philippines before returning to California to be discharged from Military Service.

He returned to his former employment at McCellan Army Air Base near Sacramento, California where he met and married his wife, Georgia Ann Mc Master, in November 1947 to begin a new family. Hence, Volume II which is now in process.