Wikander, Ed, “Wikander, Ed (Interview outline and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed March 16, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29630.
Ed Wikander joined the Navy in 1934 and served as a seaman on board the battleship USS Tennessee until leaving the Navy in the middle of 1941. After Pearl Harbor, he was drafted back into the Navy, and spent about two years working at a Marine base in California before being sent to Tinian to help build a hospital. He was called up again for Korea, and served on a destroyer based in Japan.