Oral History Interview with Bill Sheehan, May 14, 2001

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Sheehan. Sheehan joined the Navy in October of 1942. He was trained as an aviation machinist mate and became a flight engineer on a PBM Mariner. Sheehan discusses engine maintenance and the challenges of minimizing the constant corrosion that threatened the plane. He briefly discusses flying anti-submarine missions along the East Coast and later in the Pacific. Sheehan also describes weathering a typhoon on the water. He returned to the U.S. and was stationed in California at the end of the war. Sheehan left the Navy in November 1945, but returned to the reserves and retired in 1966