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Oral History Interview with Thomas Despain, January 29, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Thomas Despain. Despain joined the Navy and was training to be a gunner when the war ended. He was discharged a month later. When the war ended, Despain entered into a career in law enforcement.
Date:
January 29, 2016
Creator:
Despain, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Henry Jennings, April 12, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Henry Jennings. Jennings joined the Army Air Forces in September, 1942 and trained at Wichita Falls. He eventually became a flight engineer on B-26 bombers. Jennings recalls several anecdotes about his time in the service.
Date:
April 12, 2016
Creator:
Jennings, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Martin, April 19, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Martin. Martin joined the Navy in August of 1943. He completed the V-5 program, and served as a pilot. Martin shares details on his training in carrier landing and skip bombing. He does not speak of any service overseas, and his discharge date is not noted.
Date:
April 19, 2016
Creator:
Martin, Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Harmon Harris, March 6, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Harmon Harris. Harris joined the Navy in May of 1944. He served with the 141st Construction Battalion. They traveled to the Marshall Islands and Kwajalein, building airstrips, houses and defensive structures.
Date:
March 6, 2016
Creator:
Harris, Harmon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Miles, April 7, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Miles. Miles made a deal with the local draft board in his area that he would join the Army right after his sister was married. When she married in 1945, he joined the Army, trained at Fort Lewis and went to Japan on occupation duty. He was assigned to an engineer unit and constructed facilities in occupied Japan. He returned, was discharged and went on to attend Georgia Tech.
Date:
April 7, 2016
Creator:
Miles, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with LeRoy Brunner, June 16, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with LeRoy Brunner. Brunner joined the Army Air Forces in September, 1945 and trained in San Antonio. He attended officer candidate school where he received a commission before going to radar school and being assigned to a meteorology school in Illinois. He served at a weather station in Alaska prior to the outbreak of the Korean War. Brunner discusses his long career in the Air Force.
Date:
June 16, 2016
Creator:
Brunner, LeRoy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Baker, May 18, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Baker. Baker joined the Army Air Forces around 1942. He completed flight school and served as a bomber pilot. He was selected to serve as a B-24 pilot instructor in Courtland, Alabama. He flew B-29s. Baker was discharged in August of 1946 and remained in the Reserves.
Date:
May 18, 2016
Creator:
Baker, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Otis Sumner, July 12, 2016
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
Creator:
Sumner, Otis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles White, September 8, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles White. White joined the Navy in June, 1945 and went to Great Lakes for basic training. He caught his ship, the USS Pawnee (ATF-74) at Okinawa in August, 1945 and began pulling ships off the beach after a typhoon. They also tugged barges around Japan for a few weeks after the surrender, the Philippines, too. White returned to the US and was discharged in August, 1946.
Date:
September 8, 2016
Creator:
White, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eugene Volcik, January 23, 2016
The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Eugene Volcik. Volcik grew up on a farm in Texas and was 13 when the war started. Volcik’s brothers served and urged him not to join the service too quickly as their mother needed help at home. Volcik was 17 when the war ended. After the war, he joined the Navy in February 1946 and recalls several experiences from his time in the post-war Navy aboard USS Huntington (CL-107).
Date:
January 23, 2016
Creator:
Volcik, Eugene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jean Adams, January 25, 2016
The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Jean Adams. Adams recalls visiting her brother in the Philippines before the war started. On the way, she visited Japan. She was evacuated back to the US before hostilities started in the Philippines. After the war started, Adams joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and was in the Inspector General’s office in Des Moines. She recalls meeting Eleanor Roosevelt and had some interaction with Oveta Culp Hobby.
Date:
January 25, 2016
Creator:
Adams, Jean
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Mazoch, February 5, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Mazoch. Mazoch was drafted into the Army in August, 1942 and was attached to the 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. He joined the unit on New Guinea after the Battle of Buna. He also participated in the invasion of the Philippines. Mazoch has considerable help relating his story from his daughter.
Date:
February 5, 2016
Creator:
Mazoch, Charles L
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bill Marten, February 4, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Marten. Marten joined the Merchant Marine in November 1943. He started as a fireman working as a water tender in the engine room. Marten describes some of his service on tankers crossing the Atlantic. He details an incident where he witnesses another tanker in his convoy explode after it was hit by a torpedo. Marten took part in 12 voyages and eventually left the Merchant Marine in 1948.
Date:
February 4, 2016
Creator:
Marten, Bill
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Connolly, February 5, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Connolly. Connolly joined the Navy in mid-1943. He served as a Hospital Corpsman. In mid-1944, he was assigned to St. Albans Naval Hospital in New York. In early 1945, Connolly served aboard the USS Repose (AH-16). They served as a base hospital ship in Shanghai and later Tsingtao, China, supporting the occupation forces in northern China. He received his discharge in May of 1946.
Date:
February 5, 2016
Creator:
Connolly, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Irene Johnson, February 7, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Irene Johnson. Johnson was born in 1917 in Iowa. She speaks of life during the Great Depression. Johnson graduated from high school around 1935, and attended one year of college in Kansas. Around 1939, she moved to Dallas, and worked in the office of a construction company, building housing for training pilots. After the war began, she joined the Women’s Army Corps. Johnson provides details of her service, including uniforms, housing and her office work completed at an airfield, tracking locations of pilots.
Date:
February 7, 2016
Creator:
Johnson, Irene
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sheldon Graham, February 16, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Sheldon Graham. Graham joined the Army in mid-1944. He completed Officer Candidate School just as the war ended. Graham continued his service, joining the 6th Infantry Division, 20th Infantry Regiment, and served with occupation forces in Korea. He returned to the US and received his discharge in October of 1946. Graham remained in the reserves, retiring as a colonel in 1979.
Date:
February 16, 2016
Creator:
Graham, Sheldon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Huffman, February 26, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Huffman. Huffman joined the Navy in March of 1944. He completed Midshipman’s School in mid-1945, and was completing Advanced-Line Officers School in Florida, when the atomic bomb was dropped. He continued his service after the war ended, traveling to Naval Supply Depots in the Pacific, processing supply requests. Huffman returned to the US in August of 1946, though remained in the reserves through May of 1958.
Date:
February 26, 2016
Creator:
Huffman, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arthur Scharlau, February 16, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Arthur Scharlau. Scharlau joined the Navy in January of 1945. He completed basic training in Bainbridge, Maryland. In January of 1946, he was transferred to the Naval operating base on Guam and served as Seaman Second-Class in the Disbursing Office. Scharlau shares a number of stories of living and working on Guam. He returned to the US and received his discharge in July of 1946.
Date:
February 16, 2016
Creator:
Scharlau, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Leroy Raeber, April 16, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Leroy Raeber. Raeber joined the Navy in October of 1942. He served with the 62nd Naval Mobile Construction Battalion, and on Admiral Chester Nimitz’s maintenance staff. Raeber was stationed on Iwo Jima from 25 February through 1 May 1945, building a seawater conversion tank, filtering salt water to drinking water. He received a discharge in October of 1945.
Date:
April 16, 2016
Creator:
Raeber, Leroy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Felix Burrus, April 10, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Felix Burrus. Burrus joined the Army Air Forces in August of 1944. He completed Airplane Mechanics School, and served as a B-29 mechanic with the 5th Bomb Group, 313th Bomb Wing. In early 1945, Burrus was assigned to Clark Field in the Philippines, where he worked through the end of the war. He received his discharge in November of 1946.
Date:
April 10, 2016
Creator:
Burrus, Felix
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Ulbrich, June 17, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Jennings Ulbrich. Ulbrich joined the Navy in February of 1945. He was transferred to Brown Field Airport, San Diego. He worked in ships service, selling merchandise, food, maintaining Coke machines. Ulbrich made the rank of Third-Class Petty Officer. After the base was decommissioned, he was transferred to El Centro and performed shore patrol duty and guarded prisoners. He was there when the war ended. Ulbrich continued his service until his discharge in August of 1946.
Date:
June 17, 2016
Creator:
Ulbrich, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Vernal Bracken, July 1, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Vernal Bracken. Bracken joined the Army Air Forces in mid-1943. He served as a B-26 bombardier with the 320th Bomb Group, 444th Bomb Squadron, completing 25 combat missions over France and Germany. He continued his service after the war, retiring in 1970.
Date:
July 1, 2016
Creator:
Bracken, Vernal
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Hubert Kosub, August 18, 2016
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Hubert Kosub. Kosub continues his original conversation which was recorded in 2014 (Oral History # 04158). He relates his experience aboard USS Lyra (AK-101) as it escorted a group of floating dry docks when they sailed from the US to the Admiralty Islands. He tells of the construction and purpose of docks. Kosub was discharged in late 1945.
Date:
August 18, 2016
Creator:
Kosub, Hubert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arthur Wages, August 18, 2016
The National Museum of the pacific War presents an interview with Arthur Wages. Wages joined the Navy in February 1943 and trained at Great Lakes and then attended quartermaster school in Rhode Island. When he got overseas to New Caledonia, he was assigned to the USS Washington (BB-56) in late 1943. He was aboard when the Washington was involved in a collision at sea. After a brief home leave and repairs, Wages returned to the ship and participated in the action at the Mariana Islands, the Palaus, the Philippines and others. He was aboard when the war ended and was discharged in February, 1946.
Date:
August 18, 2016
Creator:
Wages, Arthur
System:
The Portal to Texas History