Ronald H. Fithian talks about his brother Albert Smith Fithian who served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Albert Fithian was a member of the 6th Marine Division and participated at Guadalcanal and in the Battle of Okinawa. A. Fithian was killed on Okinawa, at the age of 20, during the battle for Sugar Loaf Hill on May 16, 1945.
In this interview, Ronald Fithian discusses how his family believed for fourty-five years that his brother Albert was buried on Okinawa, but a visit to the island by Ronald revealed that his brothers body, along with the rest of the bodies of American soldiers who were killed on the island, had been exhumed and reburied at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, otherwise known as Punchbowl Cemetery.
oral histories (literary genre)
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American