An Interview with Robert L Hackney (2013-03-14)
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Title
An Interview with Robert L Hackney (2013-03-14)
Creator
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Description
Robert L . Hackney was born on a farm in Greenbrier , Tennessee on October 13 , 1926 . Hackney’s father worked as the chief metalworker out of a company in Detroit , Michigan . His job required him to travel from state to state from March to November each year and his family joined him. For the remainder of the year , they would return to Tennessee . On December 7 , 1941 Hackney was in Detroit working as a paperboy and he sold 105 issues in a single night following the attack on Pearl Harbor . Hackney enlisted in the Navy in November 1943 , just after he had turned 17 years old , and received his basic training at the Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois . After completing his basic training , Hackney attended signal school at the University of Illinois for three or four months . Following his graduation from signal school , Hackney and some other men went to Boston , Massachusetts where they picked up their brand new landing craft infantry ship (LCI) and sailed it around the coast , through the Panama Canal , and to San Diego , California . Next , they sailed the ship to Pearl Harbor where they stayed for four months until heading to the South Pacific Theater for eighteen months . Their LCI was present for the entire Battle of Okinawa from April 1 1945 through June 22 and never got hit with a single bullet . The LCI only held thirty-five men , the majority of whom were young like Hackney . On April 15 , 1946 , after the end of the war , Hackney left the Navy . He spent ten months away before returning in February 1947 and spending the next eighteen years of his life in the Navy . He sailed on the Battleship Wisconsin and attended ground control approach school to become an air control man and direct planes in landing during bad weather . Hackney got married in 1947 and was made Chief in 1956 . He retired from the Navy in 1964 and spent the next twenty-two years of his life working for the Postal Service .
Date
2013-03-14
Publisher
N/A
Publisher of Collection
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Contributors
Robert L Hackney ; East Texas War and Memory Project
Interviewer
Kyle Hackney
Type
Moving Image
File Format
mp4
Duration
00:34:28
OH #
981.1
Language
eng;
Rights
All rights to materials within this collection are held by respective holding institutions or individuals with the exception of public domain items. The materials contained within this collection are made available online for educational and/or personal research purposes only.
CONTENTdm file name
4925.mp4
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