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OH 1518

Engineer. His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Wyoming, light cruiser USS Boise, and submarine USS Mackerel during World War II. His pre-war education and employment; enlistment in the Navy, July 8, 1942; boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois; fire control school, 1942; assignment to the training battleship Wyoming, December, 1942; transfer to the Boise, April, 1943; volunteering for assignment to the U.S.

OH 1017

His experiences while aboard the target battleship USS Utah during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

OH 0333

His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Cummings during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

OH 0462

His experiences while aboard the battleship USS California during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

OH 0467

His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Medusa during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

OH 1382

His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy and boot camp, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942; advanced schooling in meteorology and aerology, 1942; volunteering for duty in China; accounts of insurgency operations and intelligence gathering in China, 1943-45; comments about the Sino-American Cooperative Organization.

OH 0429

His experiences while aboard the destroyer-minesweeper USS Wasmuth during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.