Latigo, Samuel (Interview outline and video), 2010

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Title

Latigo, Samuel (Interview outline and video), 2010

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Contributor

Ryan, Kelci (Interviewer)
Caledonia High School (Caledonia, Mich.)

Description

Samuel Latigo was born in 1927 in San Antonio, Texas. Raised by his grandmother, he worked as a teen before enlisting in the Navy at the age of seventeen. Following training in San Diego, the Navy assigned him to the troop transport U.S.S. Edgecombe. The Edgecombe carried troops to New Guinea and the Philippines and participated in the invasion of Okinawa and the landing of occupation troops in Japan following the end of the war. Following the end of the war, the Edgecombe returned to the United States and the Navy discharged Latigo.

Date

2010-03-27

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Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

LatigoS

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application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng

Citation

Latigo, Samuel, “Latigo, Samuel (Interview outline and video), 2010,” Digital Collections, accessed December 23, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29164.
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