Kuzawa, Marion (Interview outline and video), 2015

Marv Kuzawa enlisted in the Navy in 1942 at the age of 21. For basic training he was sent to Camp Perry, Virginia. Eventually he was placed in the Seabees and sent to Kodiak Island and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to construct infrastructure for the War. After being transferred to the 14th Constru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuzawa, Marion
Other Authors: Childress, Jim (Interviewer)
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan 2015
Subjects:
Oral history
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
United States > History
Military
Veterans
Video recordings
World War
1939-1945 > Personal narratives
American
United States. Navy
Kodiak
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Online Access:https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/40676
https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a18300bc603b8bb9160d71508207e05b.m4v
https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d758c39b1ac6454f732c49d18c388459.pdf
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Summary:Marv Kuzawa enlisted in the Navy in 1942 at the age of 21. For basic training he was sent to Camp Perry, Virginia. Eventually he was placed in the Seabees and sent to Kodiak Island and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to construct infrastructure for the War. After being transferred to the 14th Construction Battalion, Marv was sent to Honolulu Hawaii to build Quonset huts where the effects from the Pearl Harbor attack were still evident. In May of 1945 Marv arrived in Okinawa Japan to construct infrastructure for the ongoing invasion, and he was present in Okinawa during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In November 1945 he left Japan on the USS Topeka and coincidently met up with his brother as they were both discharged at Great Lakes military base in Illinois.

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