| Interviewee | HEPBURN, Stuart (b. 1924) |
| Military Service | U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, USS Talbot |
| Interview ID # | OH 1186 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | His experiences aboard the destroyer (later attack transport) USS Talbot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Aleutians operations, 1942; conversion of the Talbot into an attack transport, 1943; operations in the Solomon Islands, 1943; island landings of Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and underwater demolition teams on New Georgia, Vella Lavella, Stirling Island, Treasury Islands, and Bougainville, 1943-44; Marianas Campaign, 1944; collision with the battleship USS Pennsylvania; observations of Japanese civilians committing suicide on Guam; everyday life aboard ship; Leyte invasion, 1944; explosion on the USS Mount Hood in Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island; kamikaze attacks while on picket duty during the Okinawa Campaign, 1945. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello, Richard W. Byrd |
| Physical Description | 69 pp. plus documents (2 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
