Hammond, Robert (Bob) N. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004

Citation

Hammond, Robert N., “Hammond, Robert (Bob) N. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004,” Digital Collections, accessed April 6, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28957.

Title

Hammond, Robert (Bob) N. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004

Contributor

Boring, Frank (Interviewer)
Michigan Military Preservation Society (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Description

Robert Hammond was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on February 18, 1923. Robert enlisted in the Navy about one year after Pearl Harbor was attacked and went through basic training in Chicago. After basic training, Robert went to radio, gunnery and flight schools. He went on 39 flight missions as a radioman/gunner on TBF fighter bombers, seeing action at Palau, Saipan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa and Formosa. Eventually Robert and the others in his crew were in such bad shape, they could no longer pass their physicals. They had been pulled from their flight missions shortly before the bombs were dropped on Japan. Military records are appended to interview outline.

Date

2004-06-26

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In Copyright

Publisher

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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