Bocian, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2008
Smither, James (Interviewer)
Gerald Bocian was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1925 and enlisted in the Navy in 1943 when he was only 17 years old. He went through training in Chicago and then chose to continue his training with submarines. After going through submarine school Gerald was stationed at Pearl Harbor where he worked on refitting submarines while the crew had time off on R & R. Gerald worked in Hawaii for 3 years before he went on a war patrol on the submarine USS Silversides in the Pacific.
2008-12-11
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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Bocian, Gerald, “Bocian, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed November 21, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27168.