Fellner, Irving S.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Irving S. Fellner papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSC-301
Content Description
Papers: World War II Reminiscences, Anecdotes, photographs, maps, Naval notice of seperation, personnel roster, History of Bombing Squadron 13, poster, and Bombing Thirteen Ready Room Telex, 10/18/1944.
Dates:
1944
Found in:
Naval War College Archives
Irving S. Fellner oral history transcription
Item
Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 459
Scope and Contents
Fellner discusses his training as a dive bomber pilot in WWII. He comments on the mishaps he had, his ship, the USS Franklin, carrier landings, missions over Bougainville, Munda, Rendova, Guadalcanal, Formosa, Okinawa, and the Philippines, his torpedoing of the Battleship Yamato, receipt of the Navy Cross, friendship with actress Anne Baxter, instructor at Cecil Field, marriage and the war's end. Comments on the dropping of the bomb in Japan, and his time in the Naval Reserves.
Dates:
undated
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