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Oral History Interview with Everett Campbell, June 10, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Everett Campbell. Campbell joined the Navy around 1942. By 1943 he had completed flight school and received his wings. He served in the Pacific theater as a fighter pilot aboard the USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76). In July of 1944 they traveled to Pearl Harbor to join a carrier division. They participated in the Battle of Peleliu in September and the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October. They returned to the US in April of 1945 and Campbell… more
Date: June 10, 2015
Creator: Campbell, Everett

Oral History Interview with Bill Dean, April 10, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Dean. Dean was born in Sapulpa, Oklahoma on 7 September 1924 and graduated from high school in 1942. Upon being drafted in 1943, he was sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri for thirteen weeks of basic training. While there he was selected to attend the Army Specialized Training Program at Colorado State College at Fort Collins. Soon after he entered the program, it was discontinued and he joined the 80th Infantry Divisio… more
Date: April 10, 2015
Creator: Dean, Bill

Oral History Interview with Paul Simpson, April 10, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Paul Simpson. Simpson joined the Army in December of 1944. After boot camp, he deployed to Saipan where he served on patrol. Simpson participated with the 147th Infantry Regiment through the Battle of Iwo Jima, where he was stationed when the war ended. He returned to the US and received his discharge around early 1946.
Date: April 10, 2015
Creator: Simpson, Paul

Oral History Interview with Vernon Bowen, April 10, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Vernon Bowen. Bowen quit school and joined the Navy in August 1944. After training, he went aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13) and served as messman and as a 40mm antiaircraft gun loader. He describes his experiences when the ship was bombed in March, 1945 and how he escaped from below decks. Bowen rode the ship back to New York. He was discharged in June, 1946.
Date: April 10, 2015
Creator: Bowen, Vernon

Oral History Interview with Winn Pinkston, March 10, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Winn Pinkston. Pinkston was born in Chireno, Texas in 1921. After graduating from high school he attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas for two years. He entered the Civilian Pilot Training Program in 1941 and following this training he entered secondary Civilian Pilot Training in which aerobatics were taught. Upon graduating for this course, he accepted a job as an instructor with Coleman Flying School in Coleman, Texas.… more
Date: March 10, 2015
Creator: Pinkston, Winn

Oral History Interview with Anna Gatti, March 10, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Anna Gatti, nee Cocchi. Gatti graduated from Boston University as a French major in 1942. While volunteering at a settlement house, she met her future husband, Corry, who was a student at Harvard. In 1942, Corry was drafted into the Army. In 1943, Gatti joined the Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). She completed Meteorology School in New Jersey and served as Aerographer, Third Class on a base in Califo… more
Date: March 10, 2015
Creator: Gatti, Anna

Oral History Interview with Bernice Harriet Wallis George, February 10, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Bernice Harriet Wallis George. George served with the US Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) beginning October of 1942. She was trained for a highly secret project designed to crack the German Enigma encryption. She then was assigned to Washington, DC, where she worked on the prototype decryption devices called bombes. George continued her work through December of 1944.
Date: February 10, 2015
Creator: George, Bernice Harriet Wallis

Oral History Interview with Francis Jerome McArdle, January 10, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Francis McArdle. McArdle was born in Swissvale, Pennsylvania on 4 June 1925. Upon joining the Navy in 1943, he was sent to Sampson, New York for boot training. He then went to Quincy, Massachusetts where he was assigned aboard the USS Quincy (CA-71) as a carpenters mate. He recalls a visit to the ship by General Dwight D. Eisenhower prior to the invasion of Normandy. He describes the carnage on Utah Beach and picking up the … more
Date: January 10, 2015
Creator: McArdle, Francis J.

Oral History Interview with James Womack, December 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Womack. Womack was born in Decatur, Texas in October 1924 and graduated from high school in 1941. Upon enlisting in the Army Air Corps in 1942, he went to Sheppard Field, Texas for basic training. This was followed by a two month flight engineer course. In 1943 he was assigned to the 70th Ferrying Command, 20th Ferrying Squadron. Womack ferried B-26 bombers, B-17 bombers, and C-46 transport planes to various destinatio… more
Date: December 10, 2014
Creator: Womack, James

Oral History Interview with Everett Dyer, December 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Everett Dyer. Dyer was born in Bristol, Vermont on 23 March 1918 into a family of six children. After receiving his diploma from high school he attended the University of Houston and graduated in 1941. Upon being drafted in 1941, he was sent to Camp Roberts, California for basic training. After completing infantry training he went to Fort Lewis, Washington to join the 41st Infantry Division Headquarters as an aide to General… more
Date: December 10, 2014
Creator: Dyer, Everett

Oral History Interview with George Englebrecht, December 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with George Englebrecht. Englebrecht joined the Merchant Marine in 1944. He served in the engine room aboard tankers and was in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans during WWII. He shares several anecdotes about his merchant seaman experiences and illustrates several comparisons between the Merchant Marine and the Navy.
Date: December 10, 2014
Creator: Englebrecht, George

Oral History Interview with Seserino Calderon, November 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Seserino Calderon. Calderon was drafted into the Army in September, 1942 and trained in California. He was trained and assigned to the 161st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division and sent to Guadalcanal in late 1942. He served as a 60mm mortar man. After a brief invasion of Munda to take an airfield, Calderon enjoyed some rest at New Zealand before the invasion of the Philippines. His unit landed at Lingayen Gulf on Luzo… more
Date: November 10, 2014
Creator: Calderon, Seserino

Oral History Interview with Milford Lee, October 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Milford Lee. After high school, Lee performed in a traveling big band. Once the war started, he became a draftsman at Boeing and took the aviation cadet exam. In January 1943 he began flight training, earning his wings that fall. He served as a P-38 fighter escort and group leader over Ploiesti. He details the protocol for conducting large raids, from briefing to debriefing, describing intense antiaircraft fire over the targ… more
Date: October 10, 2014
Creator: Lee, Milford

Oral History Interview with Walter Neumann, October 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Walter Neumann. Neumann joined the Navy in April, 1944 and trained at Great Lakes. He attended radio school before reporting aboard YMS-231. They were just getting underway in the Pacific when the war ended. They shaped course for Japan to work minesweeping duties during the occupation. He was discharged I n1947 but stayed in the active reserves.
Date: October 10, 2014
Creator: Neumann, Walter

Oral History Interview with Ralph Sparks, April 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ralph Sparks. Sparks was drafted into the Army in 1943 and for part of basic training, they went to North Dakota to harvest a bumper wheat crop. He then trained in field artillery before heading for France in July, 1944. Sparks served as a forward observer around Metz. He also recalls moving into Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. Sparks recalls a story where his unit raided a wine cellar. When the war ended, Sparks made his… more
Date: April 10, 2014
Creator: Sparks, Ralph

Oral History Interview with Gus Cargile, March 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Gus Cargile. Cargile entered the Navy as an aviation cadet in May 1942. After graduation in August 1943 he took a Marine commission. Cargile trained in Georgia, Kansas, Texas and Florida before he became an instructor. He taught bombing, shooting and night flying in Florida and Texas. He flew the SNV in basic and a North American SNJ in advanced, and went on to fly the F4U Corsair, F6F, F7F, SBD. He made landings on the USS … more
Date: March 10, 2014
Creator: Cargile, Gus

Oral History Interview with Philip Schneiderman, April 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Philip Schneiderman. Schneiderman joined the Coast Guard in 1944 when he was 15 years old because he was able to get the doctor to waive him as a result of procuring a set of tires for the doctor. He was shipped to New Guinea to catch his ship and was in the hospital with a tropical disease when his ship came in. He snuck out of the Navy hospital to join his ship. He shares several anecdotes about life aboard an LST in the P… more
Date: April 10, 2014
Creator: Schneiderman, Philip

Oral History Interview with Ken Coonrod, June 10, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ken Coonrod. Coonrod joined the Navy in the fall of 1944. He served as an Electrician’s Mate Third Class in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. In late 1944, Coonrod was assigned to the Philippines. In mid-1945, he traveled to Okinawa, in preparation for the invasion of Japan. He was assigned to an LCVP just before the war ended. Coorod was transferred to Nagoya, Japan, and served with occupation forces aboard USS Littlehales (AGS-7). H… more
Date: June 10, 2014
Creator: Coonrod, Ken

Oral History Interview with William Keener, December 10, 2013

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Keener. Keener finished high school and headed for Norfolk, Virginia and worked as a welder in a shipyard. As a result, he could not enlist in the Army. He joined the Navy instead in 1941 and trained as a pilot in Florida. He was transferred to Pearl Harbor in February, 1942 and went aboard the USS Lexington (CV-2) and flew torpedo bombers. After the Battle of the Coral Sea, he was transferred to the USS Essex (CV-9)… more
Date: December 10, 2013
Creator: Keener, William

Oral History Interview with Sidney Duerr, December 10, 2013

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Sidney Duerr. Duerr enlisted in the navy in June, 1945 and trained at Great Lakes. Upon completion, he joined the company aboard the USS Baltimore (CA-68) and worked with the aviation unit and as a gunner. Duerr shares several anecdotes about his time in occupied Japan. He visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was discharged in June 1946 and decided to use the GI Bill to go to college.
Date: December 10, 2013
Creator: Duerr, Sidney

Oral History Interview with Ken Jernstedt, September 10, 1998

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ken Jernstedt. Upon completion of flight training at Pensacola, Jernstedt joined the third squadron of the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force (AVG), nicknamed the Flying Tigers. In this interview, Jernstedt describes the social complexities of the group, such as Pappy Boyington's unruly behavior as an experienced Marine who was unsatisfied with his rank with the AVG. He also recounts accidental encounters with… more
Date: September 10, 1998
Creator: Jernstedt, Ken

Oral History Interview with Gerald Rehbein, December 10, 2013

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Gerald Rehbein. Rehbein joined the Navy in April of 1944. He completed Radio School. In early 1945, he traveled aboard a troop transport ship to Guadalcanal. Rehbein speaks of the manual labor and living conditions while on the island. He was later transferred to Tulagi, loading and unloading supplies and ammunition. He was assigned as Radioman aboard the USS Fieberling (DE-640). They covered landings during the Battle of Okinawa… more
Date: December 10, 2013
Creator: Rehbein, Gerald

Oral History Interview with George Haddad, August 10, 2013

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George Haddad. Haddad shares much about his family history and growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1930s. He joined the Army in May of 1944. He trained at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and served with the 7th Infantry Division as a gunner on a 155mm gun and a 105mm howitzer. In May of 1945, Haddad traveled to Okinawa aboard USS Leon (APA-48), then went ashore via a Higgins boat. He explains his experiences through the battle, en… more
Date: August 10, 2013
Creator: Haddad, George

Oral History Interview with Eugene Paul, May 10, 2013

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Eugene Paul. Paul joined the Navy in January of 1943. He served as Fire Controlman aboard the USS Oakland (CL-95). They joined Task Group 50 near Funafuti, and supported amphibious assaults on the Gilbert Islands, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. Paul describes his experiences with kamikazes and going through typhoons. Paul returned to the US after the war ended.
Date: May 10, 2013
Creator: Paul, Eugene
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