71st CB Bn.
US Navy
Pacific
World War II
  William Wallace Kline
Langdondale Penn.
Enlisted 8 March 1943
Discharged 18 February 1946


Interviews



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Served in Pacific
Alatoona, Pa.
Ft. Eustace, Va.
Providence
USS Young America (Trans-Pacific)
Guadalcanal
Bougainville Invasion
Okinawa Invasion

Mr. Kline served in SeaBees in the Solomon Campaign participating in the invasion of Bougainville. His third invasion was at Okinawa where, while searching a Japanese cave was wounded by rifle fire on May 11, 1945. His specialty was explosive disposal, an all voluntary detachment within the Construction Battn.