"I felt if I'm good enough and they need me that bad, I'm just gonna go." (Video Interview, 3:51)
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Robert Russell Hunt
Robert Hunt [2007]
War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Navy Unit: USS Tambor Service Location: Pacific Theater; Hunter Point, California; Wake Island; Midway Rank: Chief Place of Birth: IA
Torpedoman Robert Hunt served on the Tambor with Warren Link. His interview, done for the book We Were Pirates, by Robert Schultz and James Shell, reveals
that he kept a wartime diary, forbidden by regulations. He even wrote in it once during an attack on a ship they were trying to prevent
from taking supplies to the Japanese on Wake Island. Hunt was on 12 consecutive missions on the Tambor; he could have asked for a break
but felt as long as he was needed and was doing his job, he would stay on. The Tambor was on patrol when Wake was attacked and was the
first submarine to spot the approaching Japanese fleet for the Battle of Midway. His vivid description of San Francisco on V-J Day
suggests what an exhilarating and frightening day that was, as he was attacked at one point by rioters.