Jack Fields Oral History Interview, 1994-11-20

CONTENT WARNING: Includes descriptions of suicide. Interview of Jack Fields (born 1926) regarding his service as a seaman and a fireman in the Navy during World War II. He describes his basic and gunnery training, his duties on board troop transport ships, his recollections of D-Day, his experience aboard the General J.R. Brooks and the U.S.S. De Long, and his salary for his service. He then describes his life after the war, including hunting stories, time spent working in the White Pine copper mine, his experience during the mining strikes of 1957, his time working in a Vancouver paper mill and as an auto mechanic. <br> <br> <a href="https://uplink.nmu.edu/islandora/object/nmu%3A122079">See the transcript of this interview here.</a>