Stuart Hotchkiss Oral History Interview, July 16, 1989

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Stuart Hotchkiss Oral History Interview, July 16, 1989

July 16, 1989

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/OH0115/

After assignment to a minesweeper, he received command of the schooner BOWDOIN and conducted hydrographic studies along the coast of Greenland. In June 1943 Hotchkiss was given command of the COOLBAUGH (DE 217) in which he experienced a violent storm in the Atlantic and participated in convoy and firing exercises in the Pacific. The COOLBAUGH participated in the Leyte Gulf invasion as well as engagements at Luzon and Manila Bay. In August 1945 Hotchkiss took command of the DD 939 (former Z-39) and in November the USS GRIDLEY (DD 380), the latter of which he cruised the Mediterranean. Both the interview and the Stuart Hotchkiss Papers detail the above experiences.

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Lennon, Donald R.

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