| Interviewee | BAIRD, Melvin R. “Pancho” (b. 1919) |
| Military Service | U.S. Navy WWII Veteran |
| Interview ID # | OH 1460 |
| Date(s) of interview | - , |
| Description | A combination of interviewing and reading from his personal correspondence about his pre-World War II experiences with the U.S. Asiatic Fleet (1937-1940) and his later experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His stationing aboard the destroyer USS Alden as a radioman; his account of the grounding of the SS President Hoover off of Hoishito Island, December 14, 1938; comments about the Sino-Japanese War; various personal experiences during liberty ashore at Manila, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Haiphong, and other Asian port cities; comments about the various Asian peoples; events on the South China Patrol; his civilian activities after his discharge; his being drafted for Navy duty, 1944; brief descriptions of his activities as a radio technician on Blue Beach during the Okinawan Campaign, April, 1945; observations of kamikaze action on Okinawa; descriptions of typical shipboard routine. |
| Interviewer(s) | James Baird |
| Physical Description | 268 pp |
| Terms of Use | Open |
