Latigo, Samuel (Interview outline and video), 2010

Ryan, Kelci (Interviewer)

Caledonia High School (Caledonia, Mich.)

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.

2010-03-27

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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