Oral history interview with Wesley Todd, [videorecording], 2002.

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Oral history interview with Wesley Todd, [videorecording], 2002.

Wesley S. Todd, a Wauwatosa, Wisconsin native, discusses his service as a Naval aviator in the Marine Corps during World War II aboard the USS Ticonderoga, the USS Essex, and the USS Bunker Hill.

Video recording : 3 videocassettes (ca. 90 min.) ; sd., col.; 1/2 in.Transcript : 28 p.Military papers : 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)

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