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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. 


Images Provided by Frank M. "Bud" Marshall

Frank M. "Bud" Marshall WWII Cap Pins (Left, Kamikaze Survivor Pin; Middle, Designated Radio Operator Pin, the operators were called "Sparks"; Right, U.S.S. Anderson DD 411 Pin.).


U.S.S. Anderson (DD 411)


U.S.S. Anderson (DD 411) Dockside


Notice of Separation from U.S. Naval Service


History of U.S.S. Anderson (DD 411)



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