Collection	Winnebago County Historical Commission
Copyright	Oshkosh Public Museum
Description	Gelatin print of Howard Fischer.
Event	World War II
Medium	Photographic Paper
Notes	Bust view of Howard Gregory Fischer. He is wearing a blue jumper with Seaman Third Class Rating sleeve patch and blue cap with "US NAVY". Hand tinted. Howard Gregory Fischer was born in Oshkosh, WI, the son of Fred and Alma M. Fischer. He enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of fifteen and was serving on a ship at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked. He was wounded by shrapnel and forced to jump overboard where he was scorched by burning oil on the surface of the water. He was mistakenly reported as killed in action in the Milwaukee papers. He was sixteen years old at the time of the attack. He was transferred on a hospital ship to San Fransisco and then home on a two-week furlough to Oshkosh in January 1942. He was wounded in action again in 1942 and sent to a hospital in Corona, CA.
Object ID	P2005.20.100
Object Name	Print, Photographic
People	Fischer, Howard Gregory
Place	Oshkosh, WI
Print size	9" x 12"
Subjects	Portrait photographs Male World War II United States Navy Pearl Harbor Casualties Pacific Theater of Operations
Title	Howard Fischer
Year Range from	1943
Year range to	1945

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