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Military Service: U.S. Army WWII Veteran, A Battery, 202nd Battalion, 607th Coast Artillery Regiment
Oral Histories
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Induction and stateside training, Camp Hulen, Palacios, Texas, and Camp Cook, Lompoc, California, 1942-43; operations in New Guinea, 1943-44; invasion of Toem, 1944; invasion of Leyte, 1944; invasion of Mindoro, 1944; eyewitness accounts of kamikaze attacks; operations around Zamboanga, Mindanao.
Date of Interview: January 5, 1999