Oral history interview with Morris V. Grenzow [sound recording], 2002.

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Oral history interview with Morris V. Grenzow [sound recording], 2002.

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Morris V. Grenzow, a Juda, Wisconsin native, discusses his World War II service with the 50th Seabee Battalion in the Pacific theater. While working at the Badger Ordnance Plant near Baraboo (Wisconsin), Grenzow comments on being recruited as a carpenter's mate first class. He speaks of conditions at boot camp at Norfolk (Virginia), assignment to the 50th Battalion, and transport via California and Hawaii to his first assignment at Midway Island. Grenzow talks about dredging the harbor and building airfields at Midway Submarine Base, having five months of R&R at Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), and constructing a harbor and airfield at Tinian Atoll. He discusses the high skill level of the men in the Seabees, living in Quonset huts, and drinking bad beer, and he touches on the food and mail service. Grenzow addresses attending 50th Battalion reunions and making limited use of a VA hospital for skin cancer. He talks about his marriages and children. After being discharged from the Navy, he discusses getting a job as a construction foreman in Arizona, but soon returning to Wisconsin to run his own residential construction business. Grenzow recalls an accident on Tinian when some men were killed by a mine explosion.

Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 20 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips.Videorecording : 1 videocassette (ca. 20 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.Master sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 20 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips.Transcript : 15 p.Military Papers : 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder).

Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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