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Marvin Melius, veteran
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Marvin Melius, 2007
Branch of Service: Navy
Highest Rank: Chief Torpedo Man (CTM)
Military Service: Enlisted, May 1939-Oct. 1945
Audio interview Other Materials

Listen to the following interview sections by scrolling forward to the time cue
:29 Stationed in Pearl Harbor
2:03 Day of Pearl Harbor attack
15:41 The naming being O'Hara Airfield in Chicago
16:05 Battle of Midway
21:07 Memories of discharge orders
24:06 Feelings on WWII & Pearl Harbor movies

Newspaper article about Pearl Harbor attack. (Article was provided by Marvin Melius.)

Pearl Harbor Survivor license plate.

Marvin Melius was aboard the USS Jenks, which was one of the destroyers
that helped capture the German U-505. The German U-505 is now on display at the
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

Marvin Melius marries one month after the war ends.

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