Oral history interview with Stuart Hepburn, 1997 April 07.

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Oral history interview with Stuart Hepburn, 1997 April 07.

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Interview with Stuart Hepburn, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the destroyer (later attack transport) USS Talbot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Aleutians operations, 1942; conversion of the Talbot into an attack transport, 1943; operations in the Solomon Islands, 1943; island landings of Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and underwater demolition teams on New Georgia, Vella Lavella, Stirling Island, Treasury Islands, and Bougainville, 1943-44; Marianas Campaign, 1944; collision with the battleship USS Pennsylvania; observations of Japanese civilians committing suicide on Guam; everyday life aboard ship; Leyte invasion, 1944; explosion on the USS Mount Hood in Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island; kamikaze attacks while on picket duty during the Okinawa Campaign, 1945. Appendix includes a facsimile of a letter to the editor from the "Tin Can Sailor" from 1996 and a short biography of the interviewee.

69, [3] leaves : facsim. ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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