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forced to pull away from their gun sights to brush the hair out of their eyes.
For 37 months, he barbered on the USS Massachusetts, a destroyer with a crew of 2,900. In between 27 major clashes at Formosa. Saipan, the Fiji Islands. New Guinea, Okinawa and other Pacific battle sites. Watts worked full-time to keep hairlines in compliance with Navy regulations.
"We didn't necessarily have to cut it real short, just off their necks and off their ears." he reported.
The war took priority over trims, of course, and during engagements with the enemy, "Mighty Mamie’s" barbershop closed. Watts then traded his scissors for a battle station, manning phones on the third deck. Appointments were often interrupted. “We were the first out and the first to leave." he said of the Massachusetts and her crew, noting that they never even struck land during their last year in action.
Watts left the Navy and her battlewagons behind at the close of World War II and returned to Virginia to open a barbershop in Washington, building the red brick office and apartments which now house the county’s welfare department.
"There was just one old
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