Oral History Interview with Richard Johnson, January 3, 2008
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Johnson. Johnson was eight years old when the war began. His father, despite being aged out of the draft, chose to enlist in the Coast Guard and was assigned to a tug boat as a watertender. Johnson visited him once and after that corresponded by V-mail. The tug’s crew was reported as KIA in the Philippines, but this was done in error after the boat had merely anchored in the wrong place. On the homefront, in Long Bea…
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Date:
January 3, 2008
Duration:
50 minutes 55 seconds
Creator:
Johnson, Richard
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Partner:
National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation