Decker, Charles, December 11, 1981

Item — Box: 3 of 6

Transcript of interview with Charles Decker, December 11, 1981

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Dates

Creation: December 11, 1981

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Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

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Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Charles Decker was born in Ohio in 1921 and grew up in Ladysmith, Wisconsin. Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Decker enlisted in the Navy for six years. When he arrived in Japan, he was assigned to the Medical Battalion. During the Occupation, Decker worked in General Douglas MacArthur’s Headquarters as a senior International Business Machines man where he worked to protect IBM while it was running in Japan.