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Oral History Interview with Juventino Mata, August 16, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Juventino Mata. Mata was born of Mexican-American parents on a ranch in Imperial County, California. He recalls being forced to flee Mexico as a youngster due to the Cristero War conducted by the Mexican dictator Elias Calles. In the US, Mata attended a segregated school to the 8th grade at which time he quit to contribute to the family income. He tells of the family working as itinerate farm workers, picking various crops throug… more

Date: August 16, 2016

Creator: Mata, Juventino

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Kenneth Barclay, April 14, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Kenneth Barclay. Barclay joined the Army in February of 1943. He served as a rifleman with the 27th Infantry Division, 165th Infantry Regiment. He deployed to Honolulu, Hawaii in May. Barclay participated in the Battle of Makin in November, the Battle of Saipan in mid-1944, the Battle of Okinawa in April of 1945. He received his discharge in November.

Date: April 14, 2016

Creator: Barclay, Kenneth

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Kenneth Merrill, January 18, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Kenneth ‘Mudhole’ Merrill. Merrill joined the Marine Corps and trained with Evans Carlson as a Raider. He was on Midway during the battle. In August, 1942, Merrill went with Carlson’s Raiders to raid Makin. Merrill provides several details about his role during the raid. From Makin, the Raiders rested a while before going to Guadalcanal in November, 1942, where Merrill participated in Carlson’s Long Patrol. When the patrol e… more

Date: January 18, 2016

Creator: Merrill, Kenneth

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with L. M. McGregor, December 13, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with L M McGregor. McGregor joined the Navy in June of 1942. He completed boot camp in San Diego. He served aboard the USS Sperry (AS-12) for the duration of the war. They went to Pearl Harbor, the Marshall Islands, Midway, Brisbane, Australia all before December of 1942. McGregor stood orderly watches for the Commodore of the submarine fleet. He also worked in laundry and the supply and service divisions on board. They went to G… more

Date: December 13, 2016

Creator: McGregor, L. M.

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with LeRoy Brunner, June 16, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with LeRoy Brunner. Brunner joined the Army Air Forces in September, 1945 and trained in San Antonio. He attended officer candidate school where he received a commission before going to radar school and being assigned to a meteorology school in Illinois. He served at a weather station in Alaska prior to the outbreak of the Korean War. Brunner discusses his long career in the Air Force.

Date: June 16, 2016

Creator: Brunner, LeRoy

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Leroy Raeber, April 16, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Leroy Raeber. Raeber joined the Navy in October of 1942. He served with the 62nd Naval Mobile Construction Battalion, and on Admiral Chester Nimitz’s maintenance staff. Raeber was stationed on Iwo Jima from 25 February through 1 May 1945, building a seawater conversion tank, filtering salt water to drinking water. He received a discharge in October of 1945.

Date: April 16, 2016

Creator: Raeber, Leroy

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Louis Janosek, March 21, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Louis Janosek. Janosek joined the Army Air Forces in March of 1943. He completed training in radio navigation and served as an Air Transport Command C-46 Flight Officer. They traveled to Liberia, West Africa, Ascension Island and China, Tunisia, Egypt, Bagdad, transporting supplies, food and equipment. He shares his experience flying over the Hump, the Himalaya Mountains. He received his discharge in 1946. In 1947, he renewed his… more

Date: March 21, 2016

Creator: Janosek, Louis

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Louis Wolfort, April 21, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Louis Wolfort. Wolfort was drafted into the Army in January of 1941. He completed Officer Candidate School at Fort Knox, Kentucky in July of 1942. He was then sent to Camp Funston, Kansas to start the 9th Armored Division. He was a light tank instructor at Camp Funston, then went back to Fort Knox, and provides detail of the equipment he used in training. From there he was sent to the West Coast and shipped out as a replacem… more

Date: April 21, 2016

Creator: Wolfort, Louis

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Margaret Russell, July 19, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Margaret Russell. Upon graduating high school in 1942 Russell went to secretarial school. She went on to work as a typist at a defense plant outside Joliet, Illinois where they made munitions. She entered the Navy WAVES in September 1944. She went to Hunter College in New York City for boot camp. She describes life at the college during her training, as well as the issued uniforms. From there she went to Milledgeville, Georg… more

Date: July 19, 2016

Creator: Russell, Margaret

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Marilyn Dow, December 14, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Marilyn Richards Dow. Dow joined the Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, WAVES, in March of 1943. She attended Navy Storekeeper School in Bloomington, Indiana. She was stationed at a base in Edenton, North Carolina as a teletypist, taking coded messages for and from her commanding officer. She shares stories of working and living at the base, and meeting her husband there. Dow was discharged in May of 1945.

Date: December 14, 2016

Creator: Dow, Marilyn

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Orville Brauss, December 28, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Orville Brauss. Brauss joined the Marine Corps in 1942, and was called for active duty in 1944. He completed officer training and joined the First Marine Division in Pavuvu, Solomon Islands. He participated in a combat training landing on Guadalcanal in January of 1945 and the Battle of Okinawa in April. After the war ended, Brauss served with the occupation troops in China, guarding supply trains, bridges and depots to keep food… more

Date: December 28, 2016

Creator: Brauss, Orville

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Otis Sumner, July 12, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Otis Sumner. Sumner was drafted into the Navy in November, 1943 and went to Samson for boot camp. Training completed, he was assigned to the USS Hodges (DE-231). He was aboard working as a water tender during the invasion of Luzon. Sumner was discharged in May 1946.

Date: July 12, 2016

Creator: Sumner, Otis

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with P. A. Penley, April 4, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with P.A. Penley. Penley joined the Army in 1942. He studied mechanical engineering at several universities before becoming an infantryman. Penley joined the 66th Infantry Division and was sent to Europe. He mentions a submarine attack on the convoy during the voyage to France that resulted in the loss of over 700 of his fellow soldiers. Penley served as a jeep driver in a weapons company and describes the bitter cold he encounte… more

Date: April 4, 2016

Creator: Penley, P. A.

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Patrick Walseth, December 22, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Patrick N. Walseth. Walseth joined the Navy in July of 1944. On 15 November, he was assigned to USS LSM-43, and assisted with transporting construction equipment to Pearl Harbor. Walseth learned several tasks aboard the ship, including training with the telegraph machine, the 20mm gun and general deck seaman responsibilities. In January of 1945, they landed six Sherman tanks and 30 Marines on Oahu. Beginning 19 February through 2… more

Date: December 22, 2016

Creator: Walseth, Patrick

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Paul Evans, April 27, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Paul Evans. Evans joined the Marchant Marine in the summer of 1944. He was assigned as a radio operator on the SS Charles M. Russel. Evans describes life aboard ship and details the ceremony when they crossed the equator. He discusses his role as a loader for a 20mm anti-aircraft gun and coming under attack during the landings on Leyte. Evans also describes receiving an SOS while on watch and how the senders were too far awa… more

Date: April 27, 2016

Creator: Evans, Paul

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Paul Morabith, February 2, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Paul Morabith. Morabith was working as a machinist when he was drafted in July, 1942. He could have been deferred, but went into the Army Air Forces when he was called. He trained as a mechanic on B-26s. Eventually, he switched to aerial gunnery and went to England in April, 1944. He flew 32 combat missions, starting in France prior to D-Day. Morabith recalls returning to base on two engines and the crew contemplating whethe… more

Date: February 2, 2016

Creator: Morabith, Paul

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Ralph Crocker, August 12, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ralph Crocker. Crocker joined the Naval Reserve in 1942 at Texas A&M, and was called to active duty in the spring of 1943. He studied civil engineering at Rice University for eight semesters. He then completed Officer Candidate School at Camp Endicott, Davisville, Rhode Island. He served with the Civil Engineer Corps as a Seabee, and worked as an operations officer on Espiritu Santos, New Hebrides. He and the enlisted men he was … more

Date: August 12, 2016

Creator: Crocker, Ralph

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Ray Flores, December 8, 2016

The National Museum of The Pacific War presents an oral history interview with Raymond Flores. Flores was born in San Antonio in 1922 and tells of times during the Depression. He worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps until December 1941 at which time he joined the Army Air Forces. After spending some time at Shephard Field, Texas he shipped out to Brisbane, Australia. Upon his arrival he was quartered at the Ascot Racecourse where he was assigned to the kitchen staff. He was then sent to M… more

Date: December 8, 2016

Creator: Flores, Ray

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Ray Whitfield, February 22, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ray Whitfield. Whitfield joined the Army Air Forces and served as a B-29 pilot flying off of Guam in the last few months of the war. He describes some of his missions and what it was like to fly a bomber. Whitfield stayed in the service after the war and flew B-36 bombers. He describes an incident where he had to make an emergency drop of three atomic bomb casings. Whitfield left the Air Force after serving for ten years.

Date: February 22, 2016

Creator: Whitfield, Ray

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Richard Donaldson, April 24, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Donaldson. Donaldson joined the US Army Air Forces reserve in 1942. In February of 1943 he was called to active duty. He shares details of his military classes at Washington University and flight training, including night flying and Link Trainer instruction. He graduated as a pilot in May of 1944, flying a B-29. Donaldson served with the 314th Bomb Wing, 19th Bomb Group, 28th Bomb Squadron. He worked as an instructor in o… more

Date: April 24, 2016

Creator: Donaldson, Richard

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Richard Hall, February 10, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Hall. Hall joined the Navy in June, 1943, having passed tests to be eligible for the V-12 program. Once in, he elected to try for flight training and passed those tests. He began flight training in January, 1944, earning his commission and wings in April, 1946. He discusses aspects of his flight training, including qualifying for carriers. One of his first assignments was ferrying aircraft from various places to Norf… more

Date: February 10, 2016

Creator: Hall, Richard

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Richard Maxwell, March 15, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Maxwell. Maxwell joined the Navy in September of 1941. He completed Officer Candidate School, and served as Yeoman Second Class aboard a landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP), and later served as Captain aboard an amphibious command ship (LCC). In 1942, Maxwell deployed to Hawaii. In the Solomon Islands, he worked as an administrator of a PBY outfit. After the war, he served with occupation forces in Japan.

Date: March 15, 2016

Creator: Maxwell, Richard

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Richard Reed, March 29, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Reed. Reed joined the Navy in late December, 1941 and trained at San Diego before reporting to motor torpedo boat school in Rhode Island. Reed relates many anecdotes about patrols and his experiences attacking Japanese barges around New Guinea in 1942. He recalls capturing only three Japanese POWs. Reed also tells stories about John Bulkeley. He returned to the US in February 1944 for treatment in a hospital before becomi… more

Date: March 29, 2016

Creator: Reed, Richard

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Richard Werner, September 23, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard E. Werner. Werner joined the Army in September of 1942. He served in the Medical Detachment with the 1106th Engineer Combat Battalion, 7th Army. They were transferred to England, and participated in infantry combat and built pontoon bridges during the Normandy invasion and traveled as far as the Rhine River when Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945. Werner served with the occupation in Germany and returned to the US in Novem… more

Date: September 23, 2016

Creator: Werner, Richard

Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

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