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MAGLAUGHLIN, Roy E. (b. 1926)

ProfessionsFarmer
Military ServiceU.S. Navy WWII Veteran

Oral Histories

OH 1189

Farmer. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Pilotfish in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; assignment to the Pilotfish, 1945; his responsibilities as a torpedoman striker; patrol off Marcus Island; also his observations concerning the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, and the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946.