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HILL, John (b. 1912)

ProfessionsBusinessman
Military ServiceU.S. Navy WWII Veteran, USS Boise

Oral Histories

OH 1381

Businessman. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy, December, 1941; assignment as a radio communications officer; duty on an LST around Kavieng; construction of a radio station on Emirau; transfer to the cruiser USS Boise, 1944; personal observations about General Douglas A. MacArthur; Battle of Leyte Gulf, 1944, and kamikaze attacks; postwar career in the television industry.