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Oral History Interview with Robert Schurmeier, April 20, 2018

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Schurmeier. Schurmeier joined the Navy in September of 1944. He completed ordnance training and was stationed at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi. He served as a gunner aboard PBMs and PBYs, conducting weekly submarine patrols between Corpus and Guantanamo Bay. In late 1945 he was transferred to Camp Shoemaker, California, working in a separation center discharging people out of the Navy. Shurmeier was discharged in… more
Date: April 20, 2018
Creator: Schurmeier, Robert

Oral History Interview with Louis Lepore, April 20, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Louis Lepore. Lepore was born 24 May 1923 to immigrant parents in San Diego. He attended San Diego State College. In July of 1943, he was activated into the V-12 Navy College Training Program. In 1944 he completed boot camp and went to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for OCS training. After being commissioned, Lepore joined the 5th Marine Division in Hawaii and trained at Camp Tarawa. In late 1944 he arrived at Iwo Jima where he was… more
Date: April 20, 2014
Creator: Lepore, Louis

Oral History Interview with William M. Stegall, April 20, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with William M. Stegall. He begins by speaking about scrap metal and scrap rubber drives he participated in during high school in Fort Woth, Texas. After high school, he volunteered for the Navy and was called into the service in April, 1945. Stegall describes in some detail his experiences while in training at San Diego. When he completed basic training, he was assigned to the USS Robert K. Huntington (DD-781) as a torpedoman and reported aboard right before the… more
Date: April 20, 2011
Creator: Stegall, William M.

Oral History Interview with Charles Cunningham, April 20, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Cunningham. Cunningham joined the Army in the spring of 1943 while enrolled at Texas A&M and received basic training at Fort Riley. In the summer of 1944 he was pulled out of engineering training and selected as an infantryman, despite his educational background. He remembers that as a private he was reading and writing letters for his platoon sergeant, who was illiterate. He landed on Omaha Beach six weeks after the… more
Date: April 20, 2011
Creator: Cunningham, Charles

Oral History Interview with Thomas French, April 20, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Thomas French. French joined the Navy and received basic training in San Diego. He received hospital corpsman training and was sent to the Solomon Islands, where he participated in evacuating wounded out of Guadalcanal. Patients were transferred with French in DC-3s, or C-47s, along with supplies ranging from toilet paper to hand grenades. French returned to the United States and served as a pharmacist’s mate at Miramar for … more
Date: April 20, 2011
Creator: French, Thomas

Oral History Interview with Karel Dahmen, April 20, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Karel Dahmen. Dahmen was born in the Netherlands and witnessed the bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940. He recalls the chaos of fires burning and people being shot. With two friends he quickly manned a vacant boat and carried 45 Jews across the North Sea to England, using only a compass and school atlas for navigation. He joined the Dutch Navy in February 1941 and was assigned to HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck as a radar operator. … more
Date: April 20, 2011
Creator: Dahmen, Karel

Oral History Interview with Howard Parr, April 20, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Howard Parr. Parr was inducted into the Army in July 1942 where he served as a radio operator in the Signal Corps. In 1944 he was sent to OCS to become an officer in the Signal Corps. In November 1944, he was sent to Finschhafen, New Guinea to serve with the 3169th Signal Service Battalion. He later volunteered to serve in a signal unit attached to the 273rd Heavy Construction Company, an engineering unit consisting of prima… more
Date: April 20, 2010
Creator: Parr, Howard

Oral History Interview with Eugene Cain, April 20, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Eugene Cain. Cain joined the Indiana national Guard and earned a commission. Cain speaks of following General MacArthur into the Philippines in 1944. Cain was an armored artillery battery commander. He describes the surrender of several hundred Japanese toorps. Apparently, after the war, Cain got into some trouble with a Filipino woman and was transferred out o fthe Philippines to Seoul, Korea, where he ran the officer's clu… more
Date: April 20, 2006
Creator: Cain, Eugene

Oral History Interview with John Alebis, April 20, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Alebis. Alebis was born in Detroit, Michigan on 7 February 1926 to immigrant Lithuanian parents. Upon entering the Army Air Forces in May 1944, he was sent to Shepherd Field, Texas for basic training. After three weeks of training he was sent to gunnery school at Las Vegas, Nevada. He describes the training he received as a gunner. Upon completion of gunnery training he was sent to Ellsworth Field, North Dakota where he… more
Date: April 20, 2002
Creator: Alebis, John
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