Oral History Interview with Franklin B. Murphy, November 20, 2003 Page: Title Page
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Oral History Interview with Franklin B. Murphy, November 20, 2003 (Sound)
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Franklin B. Murphy of Milford, Maine. He discusses enlisting in the U.S. Marines and going through basic training in South Carolina before completing his communications training in North Carolina. He also talks about his journey from Hawaii to Tarawa and the horrors he saw when they arrived and started to set up communication lines. Mr. Murphy was assigned to the twenty-fourth marines as their communication before being sent to Iwo Jima. He was in Guam for some recreational time when the bombs were dropped on Japan and the war ended, he was then discharged December of 1945.
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Oral History Interview with Franklin B. Murphy, November 20, 2003, text, November 20, 2003; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1613114/m1/1/: accessed June 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.