Add to ORKGThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Duane Howard. Howard was born in Miami, Indiana 30 November 1919. Although married with two children, he was drafted into the Navy in September 1944. After ten week of boot training at The Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Illinois he began three weeks of gunnery training. Upon completion of the training he was assigned to the merchant ship, SS O.B. Martin as a member of the Naval Armed Guard contingent. His job assignment was as a gunner’s mate on a 3 inch deck gun. He tells of the ship joining a convoy of forty ships and delivering their cargo to Calcutta, India. He also comments on visits the ship made to Leyte, Samar and New Guinea. In September 1945 the ship retur...