Bocian, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2008
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Title
Bocian, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2008
Creator
Contributor
Smither, James (Interviewer)
Description
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.
Date
2008-12-11
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Subject
Publisher
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
BocianG
Format
application/pdf
video/mp4
Type
Moving Image
Text
Language
eng
Collection
Citation
Bocian, Gerald, “Bocian, Gerald (Interview outline and video), 2008,” Digital Collections, accessed April 20, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27168.