Hammond, Robert (Bob) N. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004
Files
Title
Hammond, Robert (Bob) N. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004
Creator
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
Rights
Subject
Publisher
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
HammondR
Format
application/pdf
video/mp4
Type
Moving Image
Text
Language
eng
Collection
Citation
Hammond, Robert N., “Hammond, Robert (Bob) N. (Interview outline, video, and papers), 2004,” Digital Collections, accessed May 8, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28957.