Oral History Interview with Dick Shumacher, December 18, 2006
Description:
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dick Schumacher. He was born in 1916 in Canton, Ohio. In about 1941, he received a Navy commission and was sent to Navy Supply Corps School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first duty assignment was to the Supply Department at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard during the building of the USS New Jersey (BB-62) and the USS Wisconsin (BB-64). He was assigned to the USS Ashland (LSD-1) in 1943 and served in the Pacific Theater unt…
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Date:
December 18, 2006
Duration:
38 minutes 06 seconds
Creator:
Schumacher, Dick
Partner:
National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation