Oral history interview with Vinal W. Jorgenson, 1999.

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Oral history interview with Vinal W. Jorgenson, 1999.

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Vinal Jorgenson, a South Wayne, Wisconsin native, discusses his Pacific-Theater World War II service with the Navy as a torpedoman aboard the Abner Read (a destroyer).

Sound recording : 2 sound cassettes (ca. 67 min.) ; analog, 1 7/8 ips.Videorecording : 1 videocassette (ca. 67 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in.Master sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 67 min.) ; analog, 1 7/8 ips.Transcript : 48 p.

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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Jorgenson, Vinal W., 1913-2001,

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Jorgenson (1913-2001) served aboard the USS Abner Read in the Pacific theater of World War II. After the war he returned to farming and settled in Janesville, Wisconsin. From the description of Oral history interview with Vinal W. Jorgenson, 1999. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 85250502 ...

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McIntosh, James F., 1923-

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Abner Read (Destroyer).

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