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Oral History Interview with Neal Gillingham, September 16, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Neal Gillingham. Gillingham joined the Navy after high school. He attended boot camp and medical corps school in Farragut, and was sent to Hawaii for jungle training before deploying to Saipan as a medic for a naval construction battalion. Although the island had been taken, he still had to worry about snipers and Japanese attacks at night. During Okinawa, he was assigned to a ship in the harbor which was struck by a kamikaz… more
Date: September 16, 2007
Creator: Gillingham, Neal
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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