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Because his training ended only two months before V-E Day and just six months before Japan's surrender, Hiestand did not see combat directly. He served as an assistant supply officers in the Pacific on a CVE III aircraft carrier dubbed the Vella Gulf...
...carrier did skirt the fierce battle for control of the island of Okinawa, and Hiestand was present in Tokyo Bay as diplomats signed Japan's unconditional surrender...
...Hiestand is a native of Pasadena, Calif., where he grew up and went to high school. He attended Pasadena City College for two years before enrolling at Occidental College. There, he needed only a year to complete almost all his bachelor's requirements. "They were accelerating everything then," he said...
...Most of weren't full graduates," he said of his naval training class. "For that matter, I still don't have a college degree." Hiestand never actually received his bachelor's because, he said, he did not want to take a remaining half course in religion...
Following the war, Hiestand became a recalled for the Korean War, however, and served as assistant to the supervisory cost inspector for the 11th naval district...