Earl Martin Knutson, 2007
- Branch of Service: U.S. Navy
- Highest Rank: Gunner Mate 2nd Class
- Military Service: Enlisted, June 1942 - December 1946
Listen to the following sections by scrolling forward to the timecode.
0:00 - Enlisted and training; aboard a fuel tanker; overview of service
2:55 - Pearl Harbor memory; joined Navy; dangerous missions on the ship
7:32 - Features on the ship; overnight liberties
10:04 - Eleven men to run gun on the ship
13:27 - About 380 men on the ship; radar picket duty; nine destroyers in convoy
18:01 - Tanker refueling process
20:30 - Pet monkey on the ship
23:10 - Atomic bomb and surrender
25:45 - Eating on the ship during rough seas
26:44 - Anchored in a radioactive area after the atomic bomb
28:48 - Life after the war and reunions
This story was recorded at an SDPB event in Vermillion, SD.
