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Marvin Petzoldt, veteran
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Marvin Petzoldt, 2007
Branch of Service: Navy
Highest Rank: 2nd Class Storekeeper
Military Service: Enlisted, Jan. 1942-March 1946
Audio Interview

:30 Enlisted into the military at 19 as a payroll clerk
3:40 Pearl Habor
4:50 Deployment into war
6:20 Ship hit by bomb
9:25 Time spent at the University of Rochester, New York
12:11 How the war changed him
12:40 Bomb was 20' from him when it hit the ship
13:30 Life after the war
14:01 Going to war at 19 years of age and parents deceased
15:35 Milk story
17:37 35 roughest days aboard the Savannah in the Mediteranian
 


Marvin Petzoldt, 2007 (Interviewed by Janet Davison, SDPB Radio)


Marvin Petzoldt, 1942 (Photo taken in Boston)


Marvin Petzoldt, 1942 (Photo taken in Boston)

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