| Title: |
Donald Patrick Finn
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| Local code: |
AFC/2001/001/1765
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
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| Collection: |
Veterans History Project
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| Description: |
By the end of World War II, Donald Patrick Finn, who served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater, could say he nearly saw it all. He was stationed in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He would serve as an aviation machinist and a gunner in Australia, Bali, the Dutch East Indies, and in the Aleutian Islands. He kept a diary and wrote letters to his sister in which he recorded detailed descriptions of his travels as well as pointed comments about military life, his comrades, and servicemen from other countries.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Video: |
[Video available]
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| Speaker: |
Finn, Donald Patrick, 1915-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1915
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Saskatchewan; Canada; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Messina, Maureen A.
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Navy
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| Historical events discussed: |
Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Alaska; Aleutian Islands, AK; Asia; Australia; Bali, Indonesia; Indonesia; North America; Oceania; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Alaska; Aleutian Islands, AK; Asia; Australia; Bali, Indonesia; Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; Indonesia; North America; Oceania; Oral history; U.S. Navy; United States; United States--Armed Forces; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns; World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025840-27767
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