| Interviewee | RICHARDSON, Iliff D. (b. 1919) |
| Military Service | U.S. Navy WWII Veteran |
| Interview ID # | OH 1284 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | His experiences as a guerrilla fighter in the Philippine Islands during World War II. Assignment to patrol-torpedo boats in the Philippines,1941; orders from General Douglas A. MacArthur to establish a clandestine radio network to maintain communications with Commander Southwest Pacific after his evacuation from Corregidor; his role in plotting Japanese minefields in Leyte Gulf prior to MacArthur's return in 1944; pre-invasion weather reporting from Leyte to MacArthur's headquarters; dealings with Filipino guerrillas; transfer to stateside duty and his work with the Industrial Incentives Division of the Navy Department; sale of rights to the book about his adventures, American Guerrilla in the Philippines. |
| Interviewer(s) | William J. Alexander |
| Physical Description | 26 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
