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Oral History Interview with Robert Meyer, June 25, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert W. Meyer. Meyer was born in Olympia, Washington on 3 September 1924. After graduating from high school in 1942, he was drafted into the Army on 15 May 1943. He was placed into the Army Specialized Training Program. Following 13 weeks of basic training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, he was sent to the University of Alabama for 3 months of specialized training. He was accepted for flight training, but returned to the infantr… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Duration: 2 hours 41 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Meyer, Robert
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Franklin Pomroy, October 25, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral history with Franklin Pomroy. Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Pomroy, aged 17, joined the US Marine Corps. After completing boot camp he was sent to Camp Lejeune and assigned to H Company 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. He presents a riveting narrative of combat conditions, death, destruction, jungle diseases and man’s inhumanity to man that he witnessed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Pel… more
Date: October 25, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Pomroy, Franklin
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Lyall Dean, October 25, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Lyall Dean. Dean was born in Westchester, New York on 19 October 1918. He attended Deerfield Academy prior to attending Union College until June 1941. Joining the US Marine Corps 2 February 1942 he attended boot camp at Parris Island. He went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for additional training at which time he was assigned to the 1st Marine Division, H Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. He recalls boarding the … more
Date: October 25, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Dean, Lyall
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Stephen Boykin, October 25, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Stephen Boykin. Boykin joined the Marine Corps in August of 1940. In 1942, he was in the second wave entering the Guadalcanal Campaign, where he was severely wounded by a grenade. In early 1943, after being hospitalized, he was sent back to the US for one year of physical therapy. Boykin received a medical discharge in early 1944.
Date: October 25, 2003
Duration: 57 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Boykin, Stephen
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Whitney Jacobs, October 25, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Whitney Jacobs. Born in 1922, he enlisted in the Marine Corps in January 1942. He was assigned to the First Division and sent to Wellington, New Zealand where they prepared to go to Guadalcanal. He mentions the dock workers strike. He describes his experiences as a machine gunner on Guadalcanal. He recounts his actions during the Battle of the Tenaru River for which he was awarded the Navy Cross. He shares an anecdote about … more
Date: October 25, 2003
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Jacobs, Whitney
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Leo Schmittgens, October 25, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Leo Schmittgens. Schmittgens joined the Marine Corps in April of 1944. He completed training as an 81mm mortar man, and served with the 1st Marine Division. He traveled to Guadalcanal and Ulithi for additional training, and participated in the Battle of Okinawa. They remained on the island through the end of the war. He was discharged in April of 1946.
Date: October 25, 2003
Duration: 51 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Schmittgens, Leo
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Arthur Pendleton, October 25, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Arthur Pendleton. Pendleton joined the Marine Corps in 1940. In 1942, he deployed to Fiji and then New Guinea for additional combat training. They participated in the Guadalcanal Campaign. He provides vivid details of his time on Guadalcanal, including living, working and combat conditions. They also participated in the Battle of Cape Gloucester. He was discharged in January of 1946.
Date: October 25, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Pendleton, Arthur
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Young, October 25, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Young. Upon completion of boot camp, Young was assigned to H company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He landed on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942. He describes the slow progress through the jungle, the shortages of water and of being bombed, strafed and shelled every day. He describes the battle of the Tenaru River and the high casualties inflicted upon the Japanese as they made numerous banzai charges.… more
Date: October 25, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Young, James
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Michael Silan, January 25, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Michael Silan. Silan joined the Marine Corps in February of 1943. He trained as an airplane mechanic, and provides details of his training, including the type of airplanes and engines he worked on. In December of 1943 he traveled to New Caledonia aboard the USS Mintaka (AK-94), and shares experiences of his travels. He was assigned to Marine Scout Dive Bomber Squadron 241 (VMSB-241), and served as a Marine plane captain. In the s… more
Date: January 25, 2002
Duration: 2 hours 58 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Silan, Michael
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Theron MacKay, September 25, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Theron MacKay. MacKay was born in Providence, Rhode Island 13 July 1924 and joined the Navy in June 1943. After completing boot camp at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Illinois, he was sent to Solomons, Maryland for amphibious training. He received four weeks of training in the duties of each member of a boat crew in various types of large landing craft and graduated as a qualified Coxswain. He then went aboard the US… more
Date: September 25, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: MacKay, Theron
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Mal Garcia, October 25, 2000

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Mal Garcia. Garcia joined the Navy in 1941 and received basic training in San Diego. He was assigned to USS Argonne (AG-31) where he served as a radioman striker. During the attack on Pearl Harbor he assumed duty as coxswain of a whaleboat, transporting injured survivors to the dock. He also helped to rescue men trapped inside USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Garcia gives details of radio communication protocol, including codes and fre… more
Date: October 25, 2000
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Garcia, Mal
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Bill Lewis, April 25, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Lewis. Lewis joined the Navy in July 1939 and received basic training in San Diego. Upon completion, he was assigned to the USS Breese (DM-18) where he worked in the engine room. He participated in neutrality patrols and survey trips along the Pacific coast. Ten days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, his ship reported sighting a Japanese submarine outside Pearl Harbor. During the attack, he saw the USS Utah (BB-31) rol… more
Date: April 25, 2001
Duration: 51 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Lewis, Bill
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John Tucker, March 25, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Tucker. Tucker joined the Navy in January of 1945. Beginning in the spring, he served as Storekeeper Third-Class aboard USS Remey (DD-688). They went through a typhoon close to Okinawa and provided shore bombardment in Alaska. They were docked on the coast of Japan when the Japanese surrendered. Tucker recalls Japanese officials from the city of Ōminatoa surrendering aboard the destroyer, and signing a peace treaty. They ret… more
Date: March 25, 2003
Duration: 33 minutes
Creator: Tucker, John
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Andrew Pate, July 25, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Andrew Pate. Pate joined the Army in February of 1945. He completed training with the Army Chaplain Corps. Pate served as a Stockade Chaplain at Fort Lewis in Washington, where he remained through August. From August of 1945 through the spring of 1946, Pate was assigned as Chaplain to Nichols Air Base in Manila, Philippines and Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, Japan. He returned to the US and was discharged in June of 1946.
Date: July 25, 2003
Duration: 53 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Pate, Andrew
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James D. McLaughan, May 25, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James D McLaughan, following another interview from 2001. McLaughan joined the Army Air Forces after completing three years of college at Cal Poly. He was stationed at Hamilton Field as a pilot with the 70th Fighter Squadron when the war broke out. He participated in the Yamamoto mission and notes that Rex Barber, who got the kill, always charged into a fight, and that Admiral Halsey sent two cases of fine whiskey to the squ… more
Date: May 25, 2008
Duration: 39 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: McLaughan, James D.
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Art Goethe, June 25, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Art Goethe. Goethe dropped out of high school after contracting tuberculosis. Upon recovery, he worked as a roofer at the Army barracks. In 1942, he enlisted in the Navy, with his parents’ permission. Despite his abbreviated education, he scored well on examinations and went on to radio school. He transferred in and out of many outfits as a radioman, working on a wooden sub-chaser, an LTA blimp, and an airship rescue unit be… more
Date: June 25, 2008
Duration: 40 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Goethe, Art
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Virgil Lewis, February 25, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Virgil Lewis. Lewis joined the Navy in October 1943 and received basic training at Davisville. Upon completion, he was assigned to the Seabees and received further training at Port Hueneme. He landed on Guadalcanal in February 1943 and worked as a truck driver, transporting work crews to Henderson Field and Fighter Strip Number Two. He recounts one especially intense air raid and the heroic acts performed by fellow soldiers.… more
Date: February 25, 2009
Duration: 48 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Lewis, Virgil
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Clay Reeves, October 25, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clay Reeves. Reeves joined the Marine Corps in September 1942. As he enlisted, he signed his full name for the first time in his life, and he remembers how he accidentally signed a document on the wrong line. After joining his platoon, his first duty included answering the phones while guarding cookies in an office. After reassignment to Camp Pendleton, Reeves joined an anti-tank battalion. He first traveled overseas in Febr… more
Date: October 25, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Reeves, Clay
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Edgar, January 25, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert C. Edgar. Edgar was born 30 March 1924 in Santa Ana, California. Upon entering the Army Air Forces in February 1943 he was sent to a college training detachment in La Grande, Oregon. After thirty days of pilot training he was sent to Santa Ana Air Base classification center for testing. Qualifying for bombardier training, he was sent to Kingman, Arizona to gunnery school. He also trained in Albuquerque as a bombardier… more
Date: January 25, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes
Creator: Edgar, Robert
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with William Wheless, March 25, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Wheless. Wheless joined the Army Air Forces in the summer of 1942. He served as a C-47 pilot in the Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India Theater. Wheless was assigned to a base in Assam Valley, northeastern India. He and his squadron flew over the Himalaya Mountains supplying General Stilwell and Merrill’s Marauders in Burma, and Allied forces stationed in Yunnan Province in China. He survived many dangerous mis… more
Date: March 25, 2010
Duration: 25 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Wheless, William
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Weston Bonney, February 25, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Weston Bonney. Bonney joined the Navy in August of 1943. He served as Chief Storekeeper aboard USS Kendrick (DD-612) beginning in March of 1944. They provided gunfire in support of ground troops advancing northward through Italy. He participated in the invasion of southern France in August, and escorted a convoy to the Mediterranean Sea in November, returning to the US in December. In August of 1945 they traveled to Pearl Harbor,… more
Date: February 25, 2010
Duration: 26 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Bonney, Weston
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ivan Hammond, May 25, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ivan Hammond. Hammond joined the Marine Corps in 1943. After training as an air liaison as a part of Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO), He became a part of the invasion force for Iwo Jima and describes landing on the beach, trying to dig a foxhole, and moving across the island. He witnessed the flag raisings from the base of Mount Suribachi and saw some of the first B-29s land on the island detailing the battle damage. Hi… more
Date: May 25, 2010
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Hammond, Ivan
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Norman E. Carroll, January 25, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Norman E. Carroll. When Carroll reached 18, he joined the Navy in December, 1942. After basic training at Great Lakes, Illinois, Carroll volunteered for submarines and went to submarine school in New London, Connecticut in June, 1943. When he finished submarine school, Carroll was assigned to the USS Guitarro (SS-363). Carroll was aboard the Guitarro for five war patrols in enemy waters. Carroll describes being attacked with depth charges, making repairs, a … more
Date: January 25, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Carroll, Norman E.
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Everett Fulton, January 25, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Everett Fulton. Fulton joined the Navy in 1936 serving as a machinist mate. He details the work and equipment used in the metal shop. Fulton was discharged in 1940 only to rejoin the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He describes training as a dive-bomber pilot and what it was like to fly a SB-2C Helldiver. Fulton joined VB-14 on the USS Wasp (CV-18) and flew missions over the Philippine Islands. Formosa, and Iwo Jima. … more
Date: January 25, 2011
Duration: 2 hours 55 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Fulton, Everett
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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