Edward F. Hayes oral history transcription, 2004

Hayes discusses his youth in St. Louis, MO, his US Naval Academy education, assignment to USS Maryland at Pearl Harbor, HI, attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, flight training, assignment to Attu, Alaska where he was involved in bombing the Northern Kurile Islands and then Okinawa, courtship of his wife, helicopter training at Patuxet River, MD, Military Assistance, Jakarta, Indonesia, Korean War, Naval War College student and staff, NROTC at Holy Cross College, Retirement career and travel.

Hayes was born in St. Louis in St. Louis, MI in 1918. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1940 and served in the Navy for thirty years, retiring in 1970. Part of the WWII Navy Veterans Oral History Project.