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Oral History Interview with Luther Bookout, November 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Luther Azel Bookout. Bookout joined the Marine Corps in July of 1941 to attend Officer Training School, and was called to active duty in 1942. He was assigned to Field Artillery School and joined C Battery, 1st Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, and was promoted to first lieutenant. He landed in Auckland, New Zealand on early 1943, then redeployed in July to Guadalcanal. Luther participated in the battles of Bougainvil… more

Date: November 29, 2015

Creator: Bookout, Luther

Oral History Interview with Archibald Rackerby, September 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Archibald Rackerby. Rackerby joined the Marine Corps on 27 December 1941 and took basic training at San Diego. From there he went to officer’s training at Quantico and earned a commission in January 1943. At New Caledonia, Rackerby was assigned as a weapons platoon commander in the Third Raider Battalion. He was in combat on Bougainville but was injured in the neck in a training exercise on Guadalcanal in January, 1944. He was se… more

Date: September 29, 2015

Creator: Rackerby, Archibald

Oral History Interview with Charles Hutton, July 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Hutton. Hutton joined the Navy in late 1943. After basic training, Hutton went to hospital corpsman school, all at Great Lakes. He then went to Sampson Navy Hospital to serve as a neuropsychiatric technician. He then went to Guam before being assigned to the USS Relief (AH-1). He went to China aboard the ship with the First Marine Division after the war ended. On the return trip, Hutton had several liberated POWs as … more

Date: July 29, 2015

Creator: Hutton, Charles E.

Oral History Interview with Irma Ashenbrenner, June 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Irma L. Ashenbrenner. Ashenbrenner was born 26 September 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She joined the WAVES in 1943. She attended boot camp at the U.S. Naval Training Center (WR) at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York. While at boot camp she attended radio classes. Following that she was sent for six months for more advanced instruction at the Navy Radio Training School at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. There she … more

Date: June 29, 2015

Creator: Ashenbrenner, Irma

Oral History Interview with Raymond Bunfill, May 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Raymond Bunfill. Bunfill went into the Army in September, 1944 and trained at Camp Fannin, Texas. He landed on Leyte in late March where he was assigned to the 108th Infantry Regiment, 40th Infantry Division. While in the Philippines, Bunfill served on Leyte, Mindanao and Panay during operations to clear Japanese resistance. When the war ended, he travelled with his unit to Korea for occupation duty. When the division was se… more

Date: May 29, 2015

Creator: Bunfill, Raymond

Oral History Interview with Robert Goolsby, April 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Goolsby. Goolsby was born in Winters, Texas on 29 March 1922 and graduated from high school in 1939. Upon joining the Army in 1941, he underwent basic training at Fort Bliss, Texas. He was assigned to the Army Medical Corps and received training as a medical technician. In 1943 he was sent to Louisiana where he was trained in malaria control. After completion of the training he was assigned to an eleven-man Army Malar… more

Date: April 29, 2015

Creator: Goolsby, Robert

Oral History Interview with Paul Hatgil, April 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Paul Hatgil. Hatgil joined the Army Air Forces after working briefly in the defense industry. He received communications training and was assigned to the 505th Bombardment Group. On Tinian, he oversaw the teletype office adjacent to General Curtis LeMay. He recalls seeing the Enola Gay heavily guarded by Marines. Although at the time he was unaware of the atomic bomb, an important message arrived for LeMay, sent to the telet… more

Date: April 29, 2015

Creator: Hatgil, Paul

Oral History Interview with Robert Lynch, March 29, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Lynch. Lynch joined the Army in May of 1945. He completed basic training at Fort Hood, Texas in September. He learned how to drive Army trucks, and qualified as a marksman. In October, he was transferred to Fort Ord in California. Lynch shares details of his training, and his travels to and through California. He deployed to Nagasaki, Japan and served with the 32nd Infantry Division occupation forces. He returned to the US… more

Date: March 29, 2015

Creator: Lynch, Robert