Oral history interview with Jesse R. Smith, 1974 December 21.

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Oral history interview with Jesse R. Smith, 1974 December 21.

Interview with Jesse Smith, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS Tennessee during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

44 leaves ; 29 cm.

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North Texas State University. Oral History Collection.

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Smith, Jesse R., 1922-

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Marcello, Ronald E.

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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors (Marine Corps) Oral History Project.

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United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...

Tennessee (Battleship)

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