Oral history interview with Charles Hansen [sound recording], 2000.

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Oral history interview with Charles Hansen [sound recording], 2000.

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Charles "Jerry" Hansen, a Racine, Wis. native, discusses his World War II service with the Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill, stationed in the Pacific as a member of the arresting gear detail. He touches on boot camp at Great Lakes (Illinois), assignment to the USS Bunker Hill as a replacement, and the overcrowding on the ship which caused crew members to sleep in the mess hall. Hansen talks about the hot conditions below deck, working the arresting cables to "hook" landing planes, and throwing unexploded ordnance overboard. He mentions leave at Ulithi Atoll where they each received two beers, assisting the marine landing at Iwo Jima, and the difficulties pilots and ship crews faced during night aircraft landings. Hansen details the landing as Okinawa including listening to the propaganda of Tokyo Rose, having his ship hit by two kamikazee planes, his actions once the ship was hit, and returning to the United States for ship repairs. At the end of the war, the USS Bunker Hill traveled to the South Pacific to bring soldiers home. Hansen comments on installing bunks on the hanger deck, the changes in food with the increase of people on board, discharge, and attending reunions of the USS Bunker Hill.

Sound recording : 2 sound cassettes (ca. 80 min.) ; analog, 1 7/8 ips.Videorecording : 1 videocassette (ca. 80 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.Master sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 80 min.) ; analog, 1 7/8 ips.

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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