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Oral History Interview with Carl Peltier, March 4, 2001
Interview with Carl Peltier, a U. S Marine during World War II. He begins by discussing his reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He then joined the Marines when he was old enough. He trained in San Diego before shipping out to Hawaii where he joined the 2nd Marine Division. Further training included heavy weapons and mortars. Later, he landed on Saipan and describes his small arms and rations. He witnessed General Simon Buckner getting killed on Okinawa. He was later wounded on Okinawa. After the war ended, Peltier served in the Pentagon during the Korean War.
Date:
March 4, 2001
Creator:
Nichols, Chuck & Peltier, Carl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006
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 Indianapolis went to Tarawa and then the Marshall Islands. LeBow witnessed Japanese civilian suicides on Saipan. He also witnessed the flag-raising on Iwo Jima from his range finder position aboard the ship. LeBow describes being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. He also discusses delivering atomic bomb components to Tinian and being torpedoed on the way to the Philippines. He describes abandoning the ship and spending five days in the water, including his faith in God, hallucinations, rescue, and his recovery.
Date:
May 2, 2006
Creator:
Misenhimer, Richard & Lebow, Cleatus A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jerell E. Crow, August 24, 2002
Interview with Jerell E. Crow. He entered the Coast Guard in 1940 and trained in Florida and New York City. He served aboard a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) when those ships were first introduced. He traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Neville Island Shipyard operated by the Dravo Corporation as part of a crew that brought an LST down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. From there, the crew practiced operations at Biloxi, Mississippi. Eventually, Crow travelled to San Diego aboard the LST through the Panama Canal. From there, he went to Guadalcanal and unloaded tanks. Eventually, his ship was hit at Saipan and he was wounded. He also served aboard an LST during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Afterwards, Crow's LST was present in Tokyo Bay for the surrender. He visited Hiroshima while on occupation duty after the atomic bomb was dropped. Eventually, his LST made its way back to San Francisco where he was discharged.
Date:
August 24, 2002
Creator:
Rabalais, Larry & Crow, Jerell E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James William Harrison, January 27, 2005
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 the Battle of Midway. They also contributed to a radio show and worked with the national press corps. He then worked at the Naval Air Station in Seattle before traveling to Hilo, Hawaii to meet with soldiers who had returned from Tarawa. In Texas, he attended officer training school and college at Southwestern University. After the war ended, he studied at the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma for law school. He recalls an incident in which his office released a story about a cat that had kittens on board a cruiser; they reported this good news from the Pacific prior to the Battle of Midway. He also met Admirals Nimitz …
Date:
January 27, 2005
Creator:
Parish, Brainerd & Harrison, James William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Phinney, July 15, 2010
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 initiation ceremony, during which time Admiral Halsey was nearly shot by one of the ship's pilots who forgot to lock his gun. He also recalls some of the food he ate while at sea.
Date:
July 15, 2010
Creator:
Cox, Floyd; Phinney, James & O'Konski, Susan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with L. B. Blackmon, April 10, 2007
Interview with L. B. Blackmon, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses boot camp in San Diego, his assignment to Pearl Harbor, and his experiences during the attack. He later trained cadets in Corpus Christi.
Date:
April 10, 2007
Creator:
Misenhimer, Richard & Blackmon, L. B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arwin Bowden, March 9, 2000
Interview with Arwin Bowden, a marine during World War II. He begins by discussing his training in San Diego and New Zealand before the Battle of Tarawa. He describes being wounded in the battle, the casualties he saw, and being shipped back to Pearl Harbor for treatment before joining the battle of Saipan. He describes ancedotes about Japanese killing themselves rather than surrendering, eating food from a garden watered from rainwater running down from outhouses, the wages he made, and the time he had leave.
Date:
March 9, 2000
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Bowden, Arwin J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
History From the Bottom Up
Sound recording of a talk at the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego titled "History From the Bottom Up".
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
San Diego Workshop Welcome
Sound recording of Wyatt and Schultz giving a welcome speech during an Oral History Association Workshop in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 20, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interviewing Techniques
Sound recording of a talk titled "Interviewing Techniques" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California. The talk is specifically about techniques of mass media interviewing.
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History in Hawaii
Sound recording of a talk titled "Oral History in Hawaii" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 23, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Why of Oral History
Sound recording of a talk titled "The Why of Oral History" given during an oral history workshop in San Diego, California. Research for the talk was done by Manfred Waserman, teaching by Gwendolyn Safier, and preservation by Kenneth W. Rock.
Date:
October 20, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Funding Oral History
Sound recording of talk titled "Funding Oral History" given during the 1977 Oral History Association given by Willa K. Baum and Thomas Charlton in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 21, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Latin American Oral History
Sound recording of a talk titled "Latin American Oral History" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 21, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Oral History Workshop]
Sound recording of an oral history workshop in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 20, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wind, Water, and Quake
Sound recording of a talk titled "Wind, Water, and Quake" recorded during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 23, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Film History
Sound recording of a talk titled "Reel-on-Reel Film History" given at the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reliability of Memory
Sound recording of a talk titled "Reliability of Memory" given during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Philanthropic Foundations
Sound recording of a talk titled "Philanthropic Foundations" recorded during the 1977 Oral History Association Colloquium in San Diego, California.
Date:
October 22, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tale of Two Cities
Sound recording of a talk titled "Tale of Two Cities" given during the 1977 San Diego Colloquium in San Diego, California. The cities mentioned in the talk are Houston, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona.
Date:
October 21, 1977
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Antonio Amador, April 25, 2001
Interview with Antonio Amador, a veteran who was wounded in action as a sniper with the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. It includes a list of questions, which include a focus on Amador being shot and his experiences while serving and back at home.
Date:
April 25, 2001
Creator:
Amador, Y. & Amador, Antonio
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arthur Oviedo, April 16, 2001
Interview with Arthur Oviedo, a seaman in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War. He describes his time in the military and his experiences overseas.
Date:
April 16, 2001
Creator:
Flores, Jessica & Oviedo, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Bounds, April 12, 2001
Interview with John Bounds, a U.S. Navy Seal veteran from McGregor, Texas who served in the Vietnam War. Bounds describes his time in boot camp in San Diego and experiences in Vietnam. He also shares his opinions on the war and the state of things at home in the United States.
Date:
April 12, 2001
Creator:
Tiebaso, Miguel & Bounds, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Raymond D. Carter, April 26, 2002
Interview with Raymond D. Carter, a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War who served as a bosun's mate on LSTs. Carter describes his experiences in basic training and his impressions of the war.
Date:
April 26, 2002
Creator:
Bottoms, Aaron & Carter, Raymond D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History