Wikander, Ed (Interview outline and video), 2009

Citation

Wikander, Ed, “Wikander, Ed (Interview outline and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed March 16, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29630.

Title

Wikander, Ed (Interview outline and video), 2009

Creator

Wikander, Ed

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Description

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.

Date

2009-10-18

Rights

In Copyright

Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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