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Oral History Interview with James William Harrison, January 27, 2005

Description: Interview with James William "Bill" Harrison, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He explains how he joined the navy in San Diego without going to boot camp. He worked on an oil tanker that shipped out to Pearl Harbor a month after the attack there and transported fuel out of San Diego to various ships at sea. He was then transfered to Admiral Nimitz's public relations department. There he and two others wrote stories about the action in the Pacific theater, particularly about t… more
Date: January 27, 2005
Duration: 58 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Parish, Brainerd & Harrison, James William
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 Mary Schandua, July 9, 2004

Description: Interview with Mary Schandua, a riveter for the Boeing Company during World War II. Florence Reeves also participates in the interview. She began working for the Boeing Company as a riveter in Seattle after she married her husband John, who was in the service. She assembled wing sections on aircraft.
Date: July 9, 2004
Duration: 47 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Nichols, Chuck & Schandua, Mary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Reunion Group Picture]

Description: Photograph of a group of five people posing together outside in a courtyard. The three woman stand in the center and the two men are standing to the left and right. The man on the far left is looking at the others while holding a newspaper. On the back of the photo is written, "1990 1990", "Seattle WA", "WASP Reunion", "Joe Haydu, Jewel Estes, Bea Haydu, Joy & Marvin Krieger".
Date: 1990
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Reunion Group Picture #2]

Description: Photograph of a group of five people posing together outside in a courtyard. The three woman stand in the center and the two men are standing to the left and right. The man on the far left is looking at the others while holding a newspaper. On the back of the photo is written, "Joe Haydu, Jewel Estes, Bea Haydu, Joy Krieger, Marvin Krieger", "Seattle, WA", "W.A.S.P Convention", "1990".
Date: 1990
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Reunion Group Picture #3]

Description: Photograph of a group of five people posing together outside in a courtyard. The three woman stand in the center and the two men are standing to the left and right. The man on the far left is looking at the others while holding a newspaper. The people were identified in another photo as Joe Haydu, Jewel Estes, Bea Haydu, Joy Krieger, and Marvin Krieger.
Date: 1990
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Reunion Group Picture #4]

Description: Photograph of a group of five people posing together outside in a courtyard. The three woman stand in the center and the two men are standing to the left and right. The man on the far left is looking at the others while holding a newspaper. Written on the back of the photo is, "1990", "Seattle WA", "WASP Reunion". The people were identified in another photo as Joe Haydu, Jewel Estes, Bea Haydu, Joy Krieger, and Marvin Krieger.
Date: 1990
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Reunion Group Picture #5]

Description: Photograph of a group of five people posing together outside in a courtyard. The three woman stand in the center and the two men are standing to the left and right. The man on the far left is looking at the others while holding a newspaper. Written on the back of the photo is, "1990", "WASP Reunion", "Seattle WA". The people were identified in another photo as Joe Haydu, Jewel Estes, Bea Haydu, Joy Krieger, and Marvin Krieger.
Date: 1990
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, May 15, 1945]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes discussing taking a train with other Red Cross workers from Chicago to Seattle, the Seattle area, traveling by ship to Oahu, and impressions of the island. Written on Burlington Hotel (Washington DC) stationary.
Date: May 15, 1945
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum
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