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

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: Text

Oral History Interview with Joseph B. Brown, March 23, 2001

Interview with Joseph B. Brown of Abilene, Texas, who is a World War Two veteran of the United States Marine Corps. In the interview, Mr. Brown recalls memories of growing up and his time in the Marines, particularly from training, being wounded, and working campaigns in the South Pacific.

Date: March 23, 2001

Creator: Cox, William G. & Brown, Joseph B.

Item Type: Text

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Oral History Interview with Maurice Stamps, March 18, 2009

Interview with Maurice Stamps, a serviceman in the U. S. Army during World War II. Stamps discusses growing up on a farm in Iowa, joining the army, going to Hawaii and staying at Schofield Barracks. He was assigned to the Classification/Assignment section at Fort Shafter without ever having basic training. He was later assigned to the Message Center at Ft. Shafter. He remembers his correspondence with his girlfriend Enid, whom he married upon his discharge in 1946.

Date: March 18, 2009

Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 43 seconds

Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Stamps, Maurice

Item Type: Sound

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Oral History Interview with Carl Peltier, March 4, 2001

Interview with Carl Peltier, a U. S Marine during World War II. He begins by discussing his reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He then joined the Marines when he was old enough. He trained in San Diego before shipping out to Hawaii where he joined the 2nd Marine Division. Further training included heavy weapons and mortars. Later, he landed on Saipan and describes his small arms and rations. He witnessed General Simon Buckner getting killed on Okinawa. He was later wounded on Okinawa. Afte… more

Date: March 4, 2001

Duration: 59 minutes 21 seconds

Creator: Nichols, Chuck & Peltier, Carl

Item Type: Sound

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Oral History Interview with William F. Graham, March 24, 2001

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: Sound

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Oral History Interview with Joseph B. Brown, March 24, 2001

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: Sound

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Oral History Interview with Hazael R. Olivares, March 29, 2003

Interview with Hazael R. Olivares, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. Olivares dropped out of high school and decided to join the U. S. Navy after hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He took his 16-week basic training course at Great Lakes in Illinois where he learned how to fire various guns and recognize aircraft. After basic training, he was assigned to Algiers, Louisiana where he learned how to weld. Aboard the USS Bordelon (DD-881), he served as a Ship Fitter in the … more

Date: March 29, 2003

Duration: 49 minutes 40 seconds

Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Olivares, Hazael R.

Item Type: Sound

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

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: Sound

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Oral History Interview with Annie May Web, March 24, 2001

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: Sound

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Oral History Interview with Arwin Bowden, March 9, 2000

Interview with Arwin Bowden, a marine during World War II. He begins by discussing his training in San Diego and New Zealand before the Battle of Tarawa. He describes being wounded in the battle, the casualties he saw, and being shipped back to Pearl Harbor for treatment before joining the battle of Saipan. He describes ancedotes about Japanese killing themselves rather than surrendering, eating food from a garden watered from rainwater running down from outhouses, the wages he made, and the ti… more

Date: March 9, 2000

Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 03 seconds

Creator: Cox, Floyd & Bowden, Arwin J.

Item Type: Sound

[Letter from Joe Davis to Catherine Davis - March 18, 1945]

Letter from Joe to his wife Catherine discussing his guilt at not writing her, his sympathy for Mrs. Dawe's injury, his plans to move out of Luling when he returns home, and visiting Walter.

Date: March 18, 1945

Creator: Davis, Joseph Emmett

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from Joe Davis to Catherine Davis - March 1, 1945]

Letter from Joe to his wife Catherine discussing the mail service, his respect for the way Catherine handled her falling out with Mr. Davis, the weather, smoking too many cigarettes, and looking forward to coming home.

Date: March 1, 1945

Creator: Davis, Joseph Emmett

Item Type: Letter

[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 12, 1945]

Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including a spat with Baker over Elaine staying with Catherine, which escalated into Nell going through Catherine and Elain's closets and taking the clothes she had given them. Catherine resolves to stay positive, and intends to play bridge and eat ice cream with Corrine, Maxine, and Martha.

Date: March 12, 1945