John Harder Oral History Transcript, 1994

Interview of John Harder (born 1927) regarding his service in the Navy during World War II as a fifteen-year-old who lied about his age. He describes his reaction to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his experience as a seaman on a submarine in Alaska, his training to become a shipfitter, his work on the U.S.S. Jarvis, his day-to-day life and duties on a destroyer, his reflections on the ethics of the war and its end, his later service in the Korean War, his homesickness, his experiences in Japan, Pearl Harbor, and Kodiak, Alaska, the ways ships were used in the Aleutian Islands, and the lasting impact the war had on him. <br> <br> <a href="https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A122132">Listen to the audio of this interview here.</a>