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[Man standing on tank]
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Photograph of a soldier standing on a tank. Painted on the side of the tank: "Big Gas Bird (Navy)"
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Oral History Interview with Lewis R. Hopkins, January 15, 2004
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Interview with Lewis R. Hopkins, a pilot during World War II. He describes growing up on a farm in Georgia, going to college at Berry, and working for Sears, Roebuck, and the Royal Typewriter Company before joining the U. S. Navy. He tells an anecdote about joining the navy so he could go to New York to see the World's Fair, since he had heard the Atlanta Reserve would be making a trip to the Fair. He began flight training in Florida in December 1940, finished the next September, then drove cro…
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Date:
January 15, 2004
Duration:
1 hour 38 minutes 25 seconds
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Hopkins, Lewis R.
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006
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Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. LeBow joined the navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indianapoli…
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Date:
May 2, 2006
Duration:
1 hour 40 minutes 39 seconds
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Misenhimer, Richard & Lebow, Cleatus A.
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Lowell Dean Cox, February 1, 2005
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Interview with Lowell Dean Cox, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses joining the Navy and serving aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35). He was on board when the cruiser was attacked by a Japanese submarine and survived for five days in the water before being rescued.
Date:
February 1, 2005
Duration:
1 hour 51 minutes 06 seconds
Creator:
Bryk, Clarence & Cox, Lowell Dean
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Earl Smyth, Jr., October 20, 2003
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Interview with Earl Smyth, Jr., a serviceman during World War II. He discusses his time aboard the USS Saratoga at the Battle of Midway and at Guadalcanal, where the ship sustained two torpedo attacks. He saw Pearl Harbor three days after the attack.
Date:
October 20, 2003
Duration:
45 minutes 38 seconds
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Bryk, Clarence & Smyth, Earl, Jr.
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with James William Harrison, January 27, 2005
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Interview with James William "Bill" Harrison, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He explains how he joined the navy in San Diego without going to boot camp. He worked on an oil tanker that shipped out to Pearl Harbor a month after the attack there and transported fuel out of San Diego to various ships at sea. He was then transfered to Admiral Nimitz's public relations department. There he and two others wrote stories about the action in the Pacific theater, particularly about t…
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Date:
January 27, 2005
Duration:
58 minutes 50 seconds
Creator:
Parish, Brainerd & Harrison, James William
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Jack Kleiss, September 29, 2000
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Interview with Jack Kleiss, a pilot during World War II. He discusses training for carrier landings on USS Enterprise; the arrival of VMF-211 aboard Enterprise and their delivery to Wake Island; and the attack on Pealr Harbor on 7 December 1941. Kleiss was in a dive bomber and attacked Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway, where he earned the Navy Cross.
Date:
September 29, 2000
Duration:
1 hour 55 minutes 53 seconds
Creator:
Nichols, Chuck & Kleiss, Jack
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with E. R. Dolinar, April 5, 2003
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Interview with E.R. (Ed) Dolinar, a serviceman with the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses going to boot camp, torpedo school and submarine school. He was on the SSN Stingray as a torpedo crewman that offloaded supplies and guerillas in the Philippines. It picked up stranded Japanese sailors and transported them to Australia. The Stingray was then decomissioned. He was then part of a crew that studied and stripped captured German submarines, and he discusses the differences between th…
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Date:
April 5, 2003
Duration:
46 minutes 08 seconds
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Bryk, Clarence & Dolinar, E. R.
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with James Phinney, July 15, 2010
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Interview with James (Jim) Phinney, an aircraft electrician for the U. S. Navy during Wold War II. He discusses joining the Navy, going through boot camp and becoming an aircraft electrician. He was assigned to the USS Lexington but abandoned ship after it was hit by a torpedo. He was rescued and was then sent to San Diego to be reassigned to the USS Enterprise. He mentions being at Guadalcanal and later aboard a sub-chaser. The crew crossed the Equator and consequently participated in an initi…
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Date:
July 15, 2010
Duration:
2 hours 38 minutes 49 seconds
Creator:
Cox, Floyd; Phinney, James & O'Konski, Susan
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with James Walsh, July 13, 2007
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Walsh. Walsh was born in Wheeler, Indiana on 19 October 1926. He quit high school in 1944 and joined the Navy. He went to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois for six weeks of boot training followed by six months of amphibious training and gunnery training at Norfolk, Virginia. Upon completion of the training he went by troop train to Portland, Oregon. In September 1944 he went aboard Landing Craft Suppor…
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Date:
July 13, 2007
Duration:
1 hour 51 minutes 42 seconds
Creator:
Walsh, James M.
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Clayton Mishler
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Clayton Mishler. Mishler served in the Navy in China with the Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO), within a weather-reporting project that played a role in the US submarine campaign against Japanese shipping, in B-29 raids on Japanese cities and in rescuing downed Allied airmen. Mishler served in the Fukien Province with the Rice Paddy Navy, and traveled the Nine Dragons River in the course of his duties. He recounts nu…
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unknown
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1 hour 59 minutes 34 seconds
Creator:
Mishler, Clayton
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Karl Everitt, November 20, 2000
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Karl Everitt. Everitt joined the Navy in June of 1942. He served aboard the USS Electra (AKA-4), and worked on a salvage boat. They participated in the invasion landings on North Africa. He was transferred to shore in England, and assigned to the USS LST-48. Everitt participated in the Normandy landings. He was then assigned to join the 3rd Army, and participated with them through the Battle of the Bulge. He returned to the US in…
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Date:
November 20, 2000
Duration:
2 hours 55 minutes 39 seconds
Creator:
Everitt, Karl
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Oral History Interview with Willis Gathright, October 31, 2000
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Willis Gathright. Gathright was born on 3 December 1924 and graduated from high school in 1942. Upon being drafted in June 1943 he went to eight weeks of boot training at the US Naval Training Station in San Diego. This was followed by twelve weeks of sonar training at the West Coast Sound School at Point Loma, California. He describes how a sonar unit works. After graduating from the sonar school and receiving gunnery train…
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Date:
October 31, 2000
Duration:
1 hour 37 minutes 22 seconds
Creator:
Gathright, Willis
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Maurice Horine, January 8, 2001
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Maurice Horine. Horine joined the Navy in August of 1942. He completed Yeoman schooling. He served as Yeoman Second-Class with a Carrier Aircraft Service Unit in Seattle through April of 1944. In January of 1945, Horine was assigned to the USS General M. L. Hersey (AP-148). They transported troops to the Philippines and the Mariana Islands during the final amphibious offensive against Japan. After the war, he returned to the US a…
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Date:
January 8, 2001
Duration:
1 hour 3 minutes 40 seconds
Creator:
Horine, Maurice
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Lyman Mereness, February 23, 2001
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Lyman Mereness. Mereness joined the Navy in May of 1942. He received his wings in March of 1943. He served with the 8th Bomb Squadron. Beginning August of 1943, they served as the air group aboard the USS Intrepid (CV-11). Mereness supported the invasion of Hollandia and the Philippines Campaign, completing 39 combat missions. He was discharged in September of 1945.
Date:
February 23, 2001
Duration:
4 hours 15 minutes 10 seconds
Creator:
Mereness, Lyman
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Isidore Ozuna, October 24, 2000
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Isidore Ozuna. Ozuna joined the Navy in July of 1943. He served with the deck force aboard the USS Colorado (BB-45). His battle station was with the gun crews. He participated in the pre-invasion shelling and fire support of Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. He returned to the US after the war ended and received his discharge in December of 1945.
Date:
October 24, 2000
Duration:
2 hours 1 minute 48 seconds
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Ozuna, Isidore
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Henry Mooi, August 6, 2003
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Henry Mooi. Mooi joined the Navy in January of 1945. He served aboard USS Cabot (CVL-28). He served on fire watch duty. Mooi remained aboard the Cabot through the end of the war, and they provided air cover during the Japanese surrender on USS Missouri (BB-63).
Date:
August 6, 2003
Duration:
1 hour 51 seconds
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Mooi, Henry
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Jack Kaney, September 26, 2003
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Jack Kaney. Kaney joined the Navy in 1942. He completed Fleet Sonar School. He served as operator of sonar equipment for anti-submarine warfare activities aboard USS Finch (DE-328). They traveled to Algiers, North Africa, and escorted ships to Naples, Italy for Operation Dragoon. Kaney was later reassigned to USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-697), where he remained through the end of the war.
Date:
September 26, 2003
Duration:
10 minutes 17 seconds
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Kaney, Jack
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Oral History Interview with Coleman Harrington, September 26, 2002
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Coleman Harrington. Harrington joined the Navy in 1944. He completed Communications School, and stevedore training. He traveled to Okinawa, offloading supplies from ship to shore, where he remained through the end of the war. He traveled to Hong Kong. Harrington returned to the US and was discharged in January of 1946.
Date:
September 26, 2002
Duration:
14 minutes 35 seconds
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Harrington, Coleman
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Joe E. Hunter, October 10, 2003
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Joe E. Hunter: He joined the Navy in May, 1944 with basic training at Camp Wallace, Texas. He spoke of being chosen for the CINPAC (Commander-in-Chief Pacific Command) Boat Crew by Commander Hal Lamar, Admiral Nimitz's Flag Officer, and becoming the stern hook on Admiral Nimitz's barge. He took Admiral Bull Halsey out fishing once and another time picked up an unnamed vice-admiral off of a submarine. He told about interactin…
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Date:
October 10, 2003
Duration:
14 minutes 10 seconds
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Hunter, Joe E.
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Thomas Perkins
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Thomas M. Perkins. Perkins was born in Oxford, Maine in March 1929 and followed his older brothers in joining the Navy in July 1946. Perkins served in the Navy in both Europe and the Pacific, spending 13 years as an enlisted serviceman. He was promoted to Warrant Officer, then received his commission and achieved the rank of Commander, before retiring in 1975. Perkins shares experiences of his older siblings and their service in …
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36 minutes 22 seconds
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Perkins, Thomas
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Oral History Interview with James Grealish, October 11, 2003
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Grealish. Grealish joined the Navy in April of 1942. He completed Midshipman School. He served aboard the USS Waters (APD-8), transporting troops to the Solomon Islands, New Georgia, Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and rescuing survivors from the USS Helena (CL-50). He was later assigned as Commanding Officer of USS Cronin (DE-704). Grealish was discharged in 1946, though continued active duty through 1953 and service in the Res…
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Date:
October 11, 2003
Duration:
23 minutes 27 seconds
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Grealish, James
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National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
Oral History Interview with Will Lehner
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The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Will Lehner. Lehner joined the Navy Reserve in 1938. He began active duty in January of 1941, when he went aboard USS Ward (DD-139). They deployed to Pearl Harbor, where the destroyer patrolled locally over the next year. On 7 December, the Ward was conducting a precautionary patrol off the entrance to Pearl Harbor when she was informed at 03:57 by visual signals from the coastal minesweeper, USS Condor (AMc-14), of a periscope s…
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46 minutes 30 seconds
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Lehner, Will
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