Pond, James (Interview outline and video), 2009
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 beca...
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ftgvstateunivdc:oai:digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu:29375 2023-05-15T15:01:28+02:00 Pond, James (Interview outline and video), 2009 Pond, James McCauslin, Kelly (Interviewer) Spring Lake District Library (Spring Lake, Mich.) 2009-02-07 application/pdf video/mp4 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 eng eng Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Veterans History Project (U.S.) PondJ 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 In Copyright Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27) 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 Oral History Moving Image Text 2009 ftgvstateunivdc 2021-07-14T10:33:25Z 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 Text Arctic Grand Valley State University: GVSU Digital Collections Arctic |
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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 |
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