Harig, Harold (Interview outline and video), 2009

• Main Author: Harig, Harold
• Other Authors: Smither, James (Interviewer), Byron Area Historic Museum (Byron Center, Mich.), BCTV
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives 2009
• Subjects: Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); United States > History; Military; Michigan > History; Veterans; Video recordings; United States. Navy; World War; 1939-1945 > Personal narratives; American; Gunner; Pacific; Shamrock Bay
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/28965; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/47fe7fdf292e353ddcbabe52c287302b.mp4; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/e307c6a112971b1d96799f7ca6d07e42.pdf

Harold Harig served in the US Navy from 1943 to 1946. He trained as an anti-aircraft gunner and served aboard the escort carrier USS Shamrock Bay. He sailed on convoy escort duty to North Africa, and later served in the Pacific in the Philippines, Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns, and was later based in Japan.