| Interviewee | BOCK, Leonard (b. 1925) |
| Military Service | U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, PC-1135, PC-1128 |
| Interview ID # | OH 1193 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment and recruit training at Bainbridge Naval Receiving Center, 1942-43; electrician’s school, Newport, Rhode Island, 1943; assignment to PC-1135; convoy duty to Aruba; Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944; sinking of a Japanese submarine off Wotje Island; Marianas Campaign, 1944; witnessing mass suicides by Japanese civilians jumping off cliffs at Saipan; transfer to PC-1128; Okinawa Campaign, 1945, and kamikaze attacks; sinking of PC-1128 and his survival during a typhoon, October, 1945; assignment to an APA and participation in the Bikini Atoll atom bomb tests, 1946; postwar adjustment to civilian life. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
| Physical Description | 141 pp. plus documents (1 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
