| Interviewee | GALER, Robert E. (b. 1913) |
| Military Service | U.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran, VMF-224 |
| Notable info | Medal of Honor recipient |
| Interview ID # | OH 1230 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Medal of Honor recipient. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war training at Pensacola and Quantico; assignment to Saint Thomas and reminiscences about the “destroyers-for bases” deal, 1940; experiences at Ewa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to Guadalcanal as commander of VMF-224, August 30, 1942-December 31, 1942; air combat around Guadalcanal; his receiving the Medal of Honor; reassignment to the States for war bond drives; experiences on Iwo Jima, February-March, 1945, as commander of a 584 Radar Team; assignment to the Philippines and Okinawa, 1945. |
| Interviewer(s) | William J. Alexander |
| Physical Description | 45 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
