Pond, James (Interview outline and video), 2009

• Main Author: Pond, James
• Other Authors: McCauslin, Kelly (Interviewer), Spring Lake District Library (Spring Lake, Mich.)
• 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; Arctic
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29375; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0ea0e66c345207b9ebf2b298443f23e3.mp4; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6b0145e193345e72d58cf10ef351063e.pdf

James Pond was born in Santa Ana, California in 1925. He became very bored with school during the war and dropped out when he was 17 to enlist in the Navy. James went through boot camp in Idaho and then went to signal school in Chicago. After signaling on destroyers in the Arctic, James retinas became burned and he could no longer work as a signal man. He went back to school to become a hospital corps man and was sent to work in a hospital in Okinawa after the invasion. James also worked as a doctor aboard a ship stationed outside of Sasebo and Nagasaki, Japan