Name: Bowyer, Richard Eugene
Year of Birth: 1926
Current Residence: North Little Rock, AR
County: Pulaski County
War Time Duty (MOS): Cook/Baker/Seaman 2nd Class
Branch of Service: US Navy
Theater of Operation: Pacific
Division:
Regiment: LST-742 Landing Ship Tank
Major Engagements: Philippines- Leyte (First Wave), Lingayen (First Wave), Borneo, Guam

Biography: Mr. Bowyer cooked for the men aboard the LST-742. Imagine running a ship aground, unloading it and putting back to sea during combat. He relates close calls with Japanese planes and submarines, his battle station on a 20 mm gun, making large quantities of food for the ship's crew, and some of the unsavory aspects of cooking food with weevils in it.