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Oral History Interview with J. Glen Cleckler, November 24, 2006

Description: Interview with J. Glen Cleckler, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He discusses his background, including the day he and seven of his friends skipped school to see a movie. In order to provide a believable excuse for their absence to their principal, they went to a recruiting office to get informational forms. The principal then gave them permission to graduate early to join the Marines. He discusses his experiences in boot camp and other training programs and the Battle of Iwo Jima, includin… more
Date: November 24, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Cleckler, J. Glen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Annie May Web, March 24, 2001

Description: Interview with Annie (Amy) May Webb discussing her husband's service and her experiences on the homefront during World War II. She describes delivering word of the birth of their daughter to her husband while he was aboard the USS Bennington serving with VMF-112.
Date: March 24, 2001
Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Bloomfield, Vivian & Webb, Annie May
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001

Description: Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman regarding her experiences during World War II. She begins by discussing her family background: her parents were Jews born in Poland and emigrated to the United States. Ethel's European aunts, uncles and grandparents all likely died in the Holocaust. As a first grade student, she taught her mother, a Polish immigrant, how to read and write English. She recalls, wartime rationing, Victory Gardens, scrap drives, and antisemitism among her school-aged classma… more
Date: March 24, 2001
Duration: 43 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001

Description: Interview with Ethel Reisburg Schectman of Fort Worth, Texas, who was born in New York City during the Great Depression to Jewish Polish immigrant parents. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences of World War II on the home front, including memories of D-Day, iron metal scrap drives, victory gardens, rationing, V-E and V-J Days, and what it was like being Jewish in Dallas during that time.
Date: March 24, 2001
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Joseph B. Brown, March 24, 2001

Description: Interview with Joseph Brown, who was in the Marine Corps during World War II. He discusses going to Guadalcanal, various guns and artillery he used, the battle of Tarawa and getting malaria just before it, then going to Hawaii for more training before returning to the South Pacific and fighting on Saipan and Tinian. He also discusses being wounded on Saipan, having a bayonet run through his forearm and keeping the bayonet as a souvenir after the war, and he talks about some of his experiences … more
Date: March 24, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Cox, William G. & Brown, Joseph B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with William F. Graham, March 24, 2001

Description: Interview with Bill Graham, a Marine during World War II. He begins by discussing joining the Navy and becoming a corpsman, then being transferred to the 2nd Marine Division after the Pearl Harbor attack. He also talks being in the first wave on Guadalcanal and various things that happened during the six months there, as well as contracting a severe strain of malaria, getting shipped back to the States and stationed near his home in Fort Worth, then returning to training in Virginia to prepare… more
Date: March 24, 2001
Duration: 41 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Smith, Ned A. & Graham, William F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Clipping: Secret role of women fliers recalled]

Description: Newspaper clipping of an article about WASP being hidden from public knowledge, including the U.S. Department of Defense withholding veteran status from the women who served in WWII. The article includes a photograph of a group of young women in jumpsuits walking away from a small propeller plane. On the back of the clipping is a large advertisement for a sale, and part of an article about Fort Concho.
Date: November 24, 1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASPs with Flag]

Description: Photograph of 21 WASP veterans standing outside on and in front of bleachers at the 1986 convention; two at the front are in uniform and holding a WASP flag.
Date: [1986-09-24..1986-09-28]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[WASPs with Flag]

Description: Photograph of 21 WASP veterans standing outside on and in front of bleachers at the 1986 convention; two at the front are in uniform and holding a WASP flag. A note with the date and location is on the bottom.
Date: [1986-09-24..1986-09-28]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with Robert Gregg, March 24, 1971

Description: Interview with Robert Gregg, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Decatur, Texas, who was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion"). Gregg discusses mobilization and deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and his capture, internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia and Changi Camp in Singapore, building the Burma-Thailand "Death" Railway, and liberation.
Date: March 24, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Gregg, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Letter from Charlie Kilpatrick to Mrs. Willie D. Stallings, July 24, 1945]

Description: Copy of a letter from Charlie Kilpatrick (?) to Mrs. Willie D. Stallings, signed by "Charles", that discusses the writer's injured hand and his plans for when he receives inactive duty status. On the back of the page, the name, "Willie Westmoreland Stallings 1902-1993" is written in pencil.
Date: July 24, 1945
Creator: Kilpatrick, Charlie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter from Ada Dawe to Joe Davis - September 24, 1944]

Description: Letter from Ada to her son-in-law Joe discussing news about Catherine, or "Cathy," Ada's daughter and Joe's wife. Cathy spent the night with her mother, and Mr. Davis and Dan Jr. showed her around. Cathy is worried about Joe, and Ada is hoping that he will be able to return home soon.
Date: September 24, 1944
Creator: Dawe, Ada Lea
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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