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MORBY, George W. (b. 1915)

Military ServiceU.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Oral Histories

OH 1453

His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his subsequent experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His decision to enlist in the Navy, 1937; boot camp, San Diego, California, 1937; assignment to the Worden, 1937; stationing of the Worden at Pearl Harbor, September, 1939; pre-war training exercises; his description of the Pearl Harbor attack; sinking of the Worden on January 12, 1943, after going aground in Constantine Harbor, Amchitka Island, Alaska; assignment to the USS Hoel, July, 1943; operations in the Central Pacific, 1943-44; the sinking of the Hoel by Japanese naval gunfire in the Battle of Samar, October 25, 1944; his two-day ordeal clinging to a life raft; rescue and recuperation; assignment to the seaplane tender USS Pine Island, March, 1945; Okinawa Campaign and kamikaze attacks, April-May, 1945.