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• Description: , and was selected to go aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) and served in the ship's fire control division (firing the ship's gun). He participated in the ship's major operations in the Pacific Theater in 1944 and 1945, including the invasion of Okinawa. After
• Text: Division on the ship -Part of the crew that fired the ship's guns (00:09:53) Pacific Theater & Battle of Okinawa -The Indianapolis participated in ten major operations in the Pacific Theater -He participated in nine of them -The ship was hit by a kamikaze

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• Description: ) and sailed to San Diego (via the Mississippi River and the Panama Canal) before going to the Pacific Theater. He served as the radio operator on the flotilla flagship, but also handled supplies and knew how to operate a 20mm antiaircraft gun. Gerald
• Text: Command for amphibious ships -Able to go home every weekend during Radio School -Took a “milk train” back to Michigan -Occasionally got leaves to downtown Chicago (00:07:43) Deployment to Pacific Theater -After Radio School, he and his class went to Seneca

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• Description: to Belfast, Ireland in preparation for the Normandy Invasion. In late 1944 he was reassigned to a ship in the Pacific Theater, and in January 1945 they set sail. He was aboard that ship and participated in the pre-invasion bombardment of an island
• Text: the crew to abandon ship -Operated in the south Atlantic Ocean until September 1942 -Sailed to Brooklyn Naval Yard and he got 90 hours of leave -At this point his brothers were serving in the Pacific Theater -From Brooklyn Naval Yard they went back

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• Text: and sometimes they would be destroyed by enemy ships (00:14:52) • Still some enemy (German) ships out in the Caribbean; 1944 and early 1955 (00:15:05) Off Duty (00:15:33) Would often swim in the ocean, attend theaters (Truman’s White House, name of theater

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• Text: in Detroit • Describes Great Lakes Naval Station o What it looked like o Basic training (10 weeks long) o Required courses (6 weeks of classroom work) (05:25) Shipped to San Francisco • Placed on an oilier named Kaskaskia (06:50) Pacific Theater in 1945 (08

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• Text: Grand Valley State University Veteran's History Project World War II – Pacific Theater Robert Scholz Total Time (01:19:57) Introduction (00:00:08)  Robert was born January 16th, 1918 in Quincy, Illinois (00:00:22)  His father owned a grocery store

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• Description: and the U.S. was in the war. He served aboard the Wakefield until Thanksgiving 1942 when he was reassigned to the USS Arapaho. Aboard the Arapaho he served as the ship's doctor. Through the summer of 1943 the ship operated in the Pacific Theater and during
• Text: the Pacific Theater -Learned about the fall of Allied territories in early 1942 -Given 10 to 15 days of leave -Told not to talk about his experiences for secrecy's sake (01:25:19) Transportation of Marines to Guadalcanal -Reported back to the USS Wakefield

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• Description: Jay Shook served in the US Navy in World War II and the Korean War. He served in the Pacific Theater in World War II on the USS Bailey, a destroyer, and escorted LSI's and LSG's in to landing zones. During the Korean War, Jay served on the USS Bryce

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• Text: and sent to a hospital in New York. -Injured his back. -Navy didn’t tell them too much about the Russian position or Cold War in detail. -Iceland was backed by Russia, but the locals were very friendly. -Locals worked on the base in kitchens, and theater

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• Description: Raymond Frederick served in the U.S. Navy between 1944 and 1946 in the Armed Guard. He worked with the Merchant Marines in the transport of supplies throughout the Pacific Theater. He discusses what he was doing before the war, his experiences
• Text: Interview Notes (Length: 0:51:29) Raymond Frederick World War II Veteran: Pacific Theater United States Navy: 05/44 – 02/46 (00:00) Early Years: ™ Born in Kansas during the height of “Oil Boom” ™ Father was an oil field worker, came from a ranch

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• Text: when he was a boy -He didn't get seasick on the Savannah but his stomach felt uneasy at first (00:26:12) Possible Transfer to Pacific Theater -Considered requesting a transfer to the Pacific Theater -Wrote to a friend serving in that area and asked him

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• Description: Albert Eitel, born in Nebraska in 1926, served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946 in the Pacific theater during World War II. Albert enlisted at the age of 17. He did basic training at Great Lakes Naval Base in Illinois, and then trained on LSTs