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Oral History Interview with Royal A. Wetzel, October 20, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Royal Arlington Wetzel. Wetzel joined the Navy in July, 1943 before finishing high school. After training, he shipped out to New Caledonia where he was assigned to the USS LCI-70. Wetzel served as the ship's cook and he shares various experiences he had aboard the 70.
Date: October 20, 2011
Creator: Wetzel, Royal A.

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 Greg Layman, January 20, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Greg Layman. Layman worked in a shipyard in Vancouver, Washington on escort carriers until he turned 18. After his birthday he joined the Navy and served in the Seabees with CBMU 521 spending 20 months on Tulagi improving infrastructure. Three weeks after the Japanese surrender, his unit was sent to Okinawa to build a permanent naval base. Three months later he was sent to the United States and discharged on 24 December 1945. more
Date: January 20, 2011
Creator: Layman, Greg

Oral History Interview with Jill Pitts Knappenberger, January 20, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Jill Pitts Knappenberger. She discusses growing up during the Depression, going to college before the war, then volunteering for the Red Cross in 1942, but delaying to stay home with her terminally ill sister before joining in 1943. She first worked in England before going to France. She was able to meet her twin brother, who was also in France just before he died in the Battle of the Bulge. She describes what it was like in the camps at the beginning of the… more
Date: January 20, 2011
Creator: Knappenberger, Jill Pitts

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
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