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Oral History Interview with Hal Olsen, June 30, 1999

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents and interview with Hal Olsen. Olsen joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1939 and went to Utah. When the war started, Olsen was a toolmaker. His deferment expired so he joined the Navy in January 1943. He attended aviation machinist school in Memphis before being assigned to the Bunker Hill Naval Air Station in Indiana. He eventually specialized in instrument repair. In January 1945, he shipped overseas to Tinian. On the side, he painted nose… more
Date: June 30, 1999
Creator: Olsen, Hal

Oral History Interview with Bobbie W. Noble, June 30, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Bobbie W. Noble. He joined the Navy at 17 shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and was aboard the USS North Carolina in early 1942. Noble did not finish high school and he received all his training aboard ship. He was in New York City when the French liner Normandie caught fire and capsized. He served as a powder hoist operator in the center gun of the number 3 turret. The North Carolina, after her shakedown cruise, spent the winter anchored in Portland,… more
Date: June 30, 2011
Creator: Noble, Bobbie W.

Oral History Interview with Morton Averack, June 30, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Morton Averack. Averack joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) at the age of 16, having been recruited from his high school, the School of Aviation in New York, where he had already acquired drafting skills. He and a Japanese-American teenager worked together to map the city of Mukden. The last map of the city had been made in 1933, and the OSS was tasked with updating it as part of its efforts to know the whereabouts… more
Date: June 30, 2011
Creator: Averack, Morton

Oral History Interview with Granville Coggs, June 30, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Granville Coggs. Coggs joined the Army Air Forces in the fall of 1943. He trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and at Tyndall Field in Florida, serving as a pilot and one of the original Tuskegee Airmen. Coggs was commissioned on 16 October 1945 as a second lieutenant bombardier pilot. He served as an aerial gunner, aerial bombardier, multi-engine pilot and B-25 pilot trainee who was scheduled for the 477th Bombardment Gr… more
Date: June 30, 2010
Creator: Coggs, Granville

Oral History Interview with Margaret Gardner, June 30, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Margaret Gardner. Gardner tells of life in rural South Carolina during the war years and the emotions she felt as the result of losing her husband, Ensign Russell Edwards, a US Air Corps fighter pilot.
Date: June 30, 2007
Creator: Gardner, Margaret

Oral History Interview with Alfred Kiracofe, June 30, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Kiracofe. Kiracofe was born in Gratis, Ohio in 1917 and graduated from high school in 1935. Entering the Navy in October 1942 he became a Commissioning Yeoman and participated in the forming of the Navy’s first five night-fighter units at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. He relates the experience of participating as a flying target for night-fighter pilots in training. He was assigned to Air Group 10 aboard the USS Intrepid (… more
Date: June 30, 2007
Creator: Kiracofe, Alfred

Oral History Interview with Robert Doane, June 30, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Doane. Doane joined the Navy in December of 1942. He completed aviation ordnance school and gunnery school in Oklahoma. He served as a gunner with a night flying outfit in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. He also worked with the radio and radar aboard the plane. He provides some details of practicing in night flights to and from the USS Independence (CVL-22) in the Pacific. In 1944 they participated in the Palau operation and … more
Date: June 30, 2007
Creator: Doane, Robert

Oral History Interview with Ruben Peterson, June 30, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ruben Peterson. Peterson grew up in Madrid, Iowa and attended Iowa State College under the Navy’s V-5 Aviation Program, where he enrolled in flight training. He was transferred to the University of Georgia in January 1943 where he continued flight training. After three months he was transferred to Pensacola where he received his wings. He trained in Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, but he preferred fighter aircraft and vo… more
Date: June 30, 2007
Creator: Peterson, Ruben

Oral History Interview with Darl Good, June 30, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Darl Good. Good volunteered for service in the Army, enlisting in January, 1941. Good trained at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He also attended a clerical school and worked in the headquarters at Fort Knox making sure the armored divisions had spare parts for their vehicles. After a few years there and promotion to warrant officer, Good transferred to the 918th Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company where he learned to drive a variety of ve… more
Date: June 30, 2006
Creator: Good, Darl L.

Oral History Interview with Bill Harper, June 30, 2005

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Harper. In 1937, Harper joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and worked in his native Texas. In 1939, he joined the Army and was assigned to D Battery in the Fifth Field Artillery. He never received basic training. He went straight to work with a 155mm Howitzer crew at Fort Benning. The unit moved to New York after participating in the Louisiana Maneuvers. Harper made sergeant and worked in supply. He eventually was a… more
Date: June 30, 2005
Creator: Harper, Bill

Oral History Interview with Richard Straw, June 30, 2004

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Straw. Straw was born in Pulaski County, Indiana 18 August 1914. He was unable to complete high school as he had to help his father on the farm. Drafted into the Army Air Corps in February 1942 he went to Kelly Field, Texas for basic training. Upon completion of basic he was sent to Los Angeles for aircraft mechanic school, which he attended for three and one-half years. He recalls working on engines of the B-17 and … more
Date: June 30, 2004
Creator: Straw, Richard
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