Oral History Interview with Russell J. Judah, June 23, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Russell J. Judah, June 23, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Russell J Judah. Judah joined the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, New York, in 1944. He graduated in August of 1945. He was immediately commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy, serving mostly in the Philippines and occupied Japan. He traveled aboard the SS Mission Loreto (1944), a type T2 tanker. Judah was discharged in March of 1946.
Date: June 23, 2019
Creator: Judah, Russell J
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Russell J. Judah, June 23, 2019 transcript

Oral History Interview with Russell J. Judah, June 23, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Russell J Judah. Judah joined the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, New York, in 1944. He graduated in August of 1945. He was immediately commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy, serving mostly in the Philippines and occupied Japan. He traveled aboard the SS Mission Loreto (1944), a type T2 tanker. Judah was discharged in March of 1946.
Date: June 23, 2019
Creator: Judah, Russell J
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Calloway Scott, June 23, 2011 (open access)

Oral History Interview with William Calloway Scott, June 23, 2011

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Calloway Scott. Scott joined the Army in October 1943 and received medical training at Camp Grant. Upon completion, he was sent to Omaha Beach with the 9th Infantry Division, arriving eight days after D-Day. Although there should have been three medics assigned to each company, they were often short-staffed, with only one medic per several hundred men. Scott participated in house-to-house fighting in Cherbourg and pushed onward into Belgium and Germany. He recalls an evening when Germans parachuted behind American lines, creating a great deal of confusion in the morning, but the Germans were taken prisoner without incident. Scott celebrated the end of the war alongside dancing Russians and returned home in October 1945.
Date: June 23, 2011
Creator: Scott, William
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Calloway Scott, June 23, 2011 transcript

Oral History Interview with William Calloway Scott, June 23, 2011

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Calloway Scott. Scott joined the Army in October 1943 and received medical training at Camp Grant. Upon completion, he was sent to Omaha Beach with the 9th Infantry Division, arriving eight days after D-Day. Although there should have been three medics assigned to each company, they were often short-staffed, with only one medic per several hundred men. Scott participated in house-to-house fighting in Cherbourg and pushed onward into Belgium and Germany. He recalls an evening when Germans parachuted behind American lines, creating a great deal of confusion in the morning, but the Germans were taken prisoner without incident. Scott celebrated the end of the war alongside dancing Russians and returned home in October 1945.
Date: June 23, 2011
Creator: Scott, William
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Warren Wilt, June 23, 2008 transcript

Oral History Interview with Warren Wilt, June 23, 2008

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Warren Wilt. Wilt was born on 5 November 1922 near Plevna, Kansas. Three of his brothers served in the military during World War II. He describes living on a Kansas farm during the Dust Bowl days in the 1920s and 1930s. Soon after enlisting in the Army in 1943, he was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina to begin training as a paratrooper. In March 1944, he was assigned to a bazooka team with Company H, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He describes participating in the Normandy invasion and tells of actions in which he was involved prior to being wounded. Following six months of hospitalization and recovery he returned to his unit and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. During this time he suffered from severe frostbite and was hospitalized. Upon being released from the hospital, he was assigned to the 713th Military Police Battalion. He was assigned to guard the residence of President Harry Truman when he attended the Potsdam Conference during July and August 1945. Following the surrender of Germany, Wilt returned to the United States and was discharged in December 1945.
Date: June 23, 2008
Creator: Wilt, Warren
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History