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Oral History Interview with Melvin Pratt, July 23, 2019

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Melvin Pratt. Pratt joined the Navy in April of 1944. He served as Seaman 3rd Class with the gunnery gang aboard the minesweeper USS Strength (AM-309). In December, they arrived in Pearl Harbor, and began training in preparation for the Iwo Jima invasion. On 16 February 1945, they began sweeping off Iwo Jima to clear the way for the invasion fleet. In late March, they assisted in clearing the approaches to the beaches off Okinawa… more
Date: July 23, 2019
Duration: 58 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Pratt, Melvin
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Oral History Interview with Ralph Schultz, July 29, 2019

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ralph Schultz. Schultz joined the Marine Corps in in late 1942. He completed radio/telephone school. He joined the 3rd Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO), and was shipped to Guadalcanal and assigned to Headquarters 3rd Marine Division. In July of 1944, they participated in the Battle of Guam. As part of JASCO, Schultz helped coordinate and control naval gunfire and close air support of landings on the island. After receiving in… more
Date: July 29, 2019
Duration: 59 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Schultz, Ralph
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Oral History Interview with Clyde Covey, July 17, 2019

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Clyde Covey. Covey joined the Navy in October of 1945. He served as a Fireman aboard the patrol craft escort, the PCE-870, in Hawaii, completing patrols around Pearl Harbor, and in between the equator and the Aleutians. They had about nine different posts, where they would send up weather balloons with transmitters, radioing weather information back to Pearl Harbor. Covey later completed motor machinist school, and was assigned t… more
Date: July 17, 2019
Duration: 42 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Covey, Clyde
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Oral History Interview with James Ashbaugh, July 9, 2019

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Ashbaugh. Ashbaugh joined the Navy in April of 1944. He completed Electrician School. He served as Fireman 1st Class aboard a landing craft tank, the LCT-60. He traveled to Bougainville and Manus. Ashbaugh continued his service after the war ended, and participated in the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, for which he provides vivid details. He served for a total of nine years in the Navy.
Date: July 9, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Ashbaugh, James
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Oral History Interview with Alfred Gluck, July 12, 2019

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alfred Gluck. Gluck joined the Merchant Marines in mid-1941. He served as a Seaman aboard a liberty ship, the SS George L. Baker (1614). In May of 1943, they traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii, transporting general supplies and merchandise for people on the island. He returned to San Francisco, and was assigned to the SS James Lick in July as Able Seaman, traveling to New Hebrides and New Caledonia, transporting military cargo. In 1944… more
Date: July 12, 2019
Duration: 41 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Gluck, Alfred
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Oral History Interview with George Redding, July 25, 2018

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George Redding. Redding joined the Navy in June of 1944. He was assigned to the 81st, 91st and 8th Construction Battalions, and served with a pontoon outfit, ferrying supplies from ship to shore. In January of 1945 he traveled aboard a troop ship to Hawaii for additional training, then on to Ulithi, Eniwetok and Okinawa. They remained on the coast of Okinawa through August, transporting Red Cross supplies, Sherman tanks, and howi… more
Date: July 25, 2018
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Redding, George
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Oral History Interview with Charles Davidson, July 31, 2018

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Davidson. Davidson joined the Navy in the spring of 1943. He served as Seaman 1st Class. He completed the equivalent of a master’s degree in electrical engineering. He worked in a field engineering group at a Naval research lab in Washington. He was later sent to the Banana River Naval Air Station in Florida, running tests on carrier-controlled approach. He volunteered for the invasion of Japan in 1945, though after the b… more
Date: July 31, 2018
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Davidson, Charles
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Oral History Interview with Raymond Johnson, July 24, 2018

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Raymond Johnson. Johnson joined the Navy in July of 1943. He completed submarine training, and served aboard the USS Tirante (SS-420). Johnson went on two of the ship’s three patrols around Midway, Guam and Korea. Johnson returned to the US after the war ended, and received his discharge in February of 1946.
Date: July 24, 2018
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Johnson, Raymond
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Oral History Interview with Robert Ulery, July 27, 2018

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Ulery. Ulery joined the Army in December of 1945. In March 1946 he was sent to Le Havre, France. He served with the 3rd Infantry Division, Artillery Band in Bad Wildungen, Germany. Ulery played the sousaphone in the band, and they traveled all over the American Zone of Germany. He was in Nuremberg when the war criminals were sentenced to death. Ulery shares details of his 13 months living and working in Germany after the w… more
Date: July 27, 2018
Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Ulery, Robert
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Oral History Interview with Bailey Salmon, July 14, 2018

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Bailey Salmon. Salmon joined the Marine Corps in March of 1943. He completed advanced training with landing craft vehicles, and was placed in the V-12 Navy College Training Program. He traveled to a transit center in Hawaii, and practiced for the invasion of Japan. He was transferred to Guam, and joined the 3rd Marine Division. Shortly thereafter, the bombs were dropped and the war ended. He was ranked as Acting 1st Sergeant and … more
Date: July 14, 2018
Duration: 38 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Salmon, Bailey
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Oral History Interview with Thomas Killian, July 12, 2018

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Thomas Killian. Killian joined the Army in April of 1945, at the young age of 14 years old. He was assigned to the 29th Regimental Combat Team, 10th Army. He traveled to Okinawa, arriving 26 June 1945, participating in the invasion of the island. They traveled south on the island, towards Naha, and helped with cleanup, and had some direct combat with the Japanese. By August the bombs had been dropped and the war was over. Killian… more
Date: July 12, 2018
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Killian, Thomas
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Oral History Interview with Maurice Clark, July 12, 2018

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Maurice Clark. Clark joined the Army Air Forces in April of 1943. He served with as a Radio Operator and 2nd Navigator with the 93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force, aboard the B-29 the crew named Lil’ Butch. From February through August of 1945 they were stationed in Guam, and completed bombing missions over Japan, to destroy their war-making capabilities. They bombed targets on the Caroline Islands, Marianas and … more
Date: July 12, 2018
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Clark, Maurice
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Oral History Interview with Whitcomb Jones, July 28, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Whitcomb Jones. Jones volunteered for the Army Air Forces in June 1943, and went to flight training in Texas. He finished flight school and went to B-17 crew training in Nebraska. Just prior to deploying overseas, Jones was ordered to B-29 training. Upon completion of training in a B-29, Jones was sent to Saipan and assigned to the 499th Bob Group. He flew a few sorties before the war ended. He extended his service time in order … more
Date: July 28, 2017
Duration: 26 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Jones, Whitcomb
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Oral History Interview with Walter Karnes, July 28, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Walter Karnes. Karnes was drafted into the Army in January 1945. He was aboard a troop ship in the Pacific headed for the Philippines when the war with Japan ended. He spent some time guarding Japanese prinsoners of war on Leyte before deciding to extend his enlistment. He was back in the US in December and was assigned to Germany in Janaury 1946. He shares a few anecdotes about his time in Occupied Germany. His enlistment expire… more
Date: July 28, 2017
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Karnes, Walter
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Oral History Interview with Charles Kollman, July 28, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Kollman. Kollman joined the Marine Corps in January 1944 and had basic training at San Diego. After training, he went to Hawaii and was at Maui when the war ended. He returned to the US and was discharged in December 1945.
Date: July 28, 2017
Duration: 16 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Kollman, Charles
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Oral History Interview with William Jackson, July 28, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Jackson. Jacklson was drafted into the Army Air Forces in June 1943 after he had finished high school. He trained in aerial gunnery and served as a nose gunner on a B-24. He flew 32 missions over Italy, Romania, Czeckoslovakia, Germany, etc. before being shot down over Poland, captured and made a prisoner of war in October 1944. He shares anecdotes about bailing out, being captured and interrogated, and arrving at Stalag … more
Date: July 28, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Jackson, William
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Oral History Interview with Donald Wertz, July 19, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with W. Donald Wertz. Wertz joined the Army Air Forces in February of 1943 and trained as a pilot earning his commission in March of 1944. In January of 1945 he went overseas and joined the 42nd Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Squadron in New Guinea, in time to participate in the invasion of the Philippines. His group was set up in Palawan, Philippines and flew missions throughout the archipelago. Wertz completed 34 missions. He was disch… more
Date: July 19, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Wertz, Donald
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Oral History Interview with Ralph Stintzcum, July 26, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ralph Stintzcum. Stintzcum joined the Marine Corps in 1943 and trained at Parris Island before going to radio and radar school in Florida. From there, he went to the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro where he was assigned to Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 131 (VMTB-131) as an aircrew member. In March, 1944 his unit boarded the USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80). In August, Stintzcum headed for Guam. His unit also went to Okinawa where th… more
Date: July 26, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Stintzcum, Ralph
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Oral History Interview with Kenneth Shaub, July 7, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Kenneth Shaub. Shaub joined the Marine Corps right after the attack on Pearl Harbor and trained at Parris Island and then Quantico as a radio operator. He was then assigned to a tank battalion in the 4th Marine Division. He went to the Marshall Islands and mariana Islands campaigns. Between campaigns, he trained at Maui. Shaub served in a Sherman tank during the Mariana campaign and relates a few anecdotes about combat on Saipan.… more
Date: July 7, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Shaub, Kenneth
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Oral History Interview with Peter Schultheiss, July 17, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Peter Schultheiss. Schultheiss grew up in Germany and was a student when the war started. He recasll details about being in a national youth orgaization: Deutsches Jungvolk (the 10-14 year-old branch of the Hitler Youth). Before he finished school, he was recruited to serve within an antiaircraft battery in Halle in 1944. He served on an 88mm gun. In January, 1945, Shultheiss began serving as a horse messenger to German infantry … more
Date: July 17, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes
Creator: Schultheiss, Peter
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Oral History Interview with William Meriwether, July 27, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Meriwether. Meriwether was studying to become a doctor when he entered the Army Medical Corps in December, 1942. He continued training as a doctor and was discharged in 1946. He was recalled and commissioned in 1952 and spent one year in Korea as a pathologist with the 48th MASH unit and studied the cause of serious infectious diseases along the DMZ. Meriwether relates details of his career in Army medicine.
Date: July 27, 2016
Duration: 41 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Meriwether, William
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Oral History Interview with Robert Kenny, July 29, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Kenny. Kenny joined the Army Air Forces in August 1942. He completed airplane mechanic training at Dallas Aviation School in Texas, and gunnery school in Las Vegas, Nevada. Beginning I 1944, Kenny served as a B-17 Flight Engineer with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. They tracked weather in the North Atlantic between North America and Europe, benefitting the European Theater of Operations. Their squadron was coine… more
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 36 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Kenny, Robert
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Oral History Interview with Margaret Russell, July 19, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Margaret Russell. Upon graduating high school in 1942 Russell went to secretarial school. She went on to work as a typist at a defense plant outside Joliet, Illinois where they made munitions. She entered the Navy WAVES in September 1944. She went to Hunter College in New York City for boot camp. She describes life at the college during her training, as well as the issued uniforms. From there she went to Milledgeville, Georg… more
Date: July 19, 2016
Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Russell, Margaret
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Oral History Interview with Otis Sumner, July 12, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Otis Sumner. Sumner was drafted into the Navy in November, 1943 and went to Samson for boot camp. Training completed, he was assigned to the USS Hodges (DE-231). He was aboard working as a water tender during the invasion of Luzon. Sumner was discharged in May 1946.
Date: July 12, 2016
Duration: 45 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Sumner, Otis
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