Frank M. "Bud" Marshall, 2007
- Branch of Service: U.S. Navy
- Highest Rank: Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Military Service: Enlisted, 1943 - 1946
Listen to the following sections by scrolling forward to the timecode.
0:00 - Enlisted; how ended up in South Dakota
2:12 - ROTC; Pearl Harbor memory
3:16 - Basic training; radio school; U.S.S. Anderson; Morse code; a convoy of ships; shelled islands
7:30 - Battle of Leyte Gulf (largest Naval battle in WWII); description of the battle; many dead and wounded; the ship was damaged
26:45 - High and low points of the war; death of a soldier; how the war changed him
29:30 - Funny things that happened during the war
Frank M. "Bud" Marshall Obituary
This story was recorded at an SDPB event in Vermillion, SD.