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Oral History Interview with Clifford Kantz, November 10, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Clifford Kantz, November 10, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clifford Kantz. Mrs. Marion Kantz assists with the interview. Kantz entered the US Army Air Forces October 1941. He received training at Sheppard Field, Texas and served as a flight officer flying B-24s. He went on to Fort Benning and served as a C-47 pilot. Kantz became an aircraft commander in the 100th Troop Carrier Squadron, towing and dropping gliders and paratroopers. They were stationed in Nottingham, England. When the war was over they brought many French POWs out of Germany back to France. They also took supplies to the front for the American troops, and brought out the wounded. He came back to the States in October 1945, and remained on active duty until 1963 when he retired. After the military he became a teacher.
Date: November 10, 2015
Creator: Kantz, Clifford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Irvine, November 10, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Irvine, November 10, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Elizabeth L. (Liz) Irvine. Irvine was born 5 July 1927 in Baguio, Philippine Islands, where her parents were teachers. They lived most of the time in Manila, until the outbreak of WWII, at which time they were imprisoned in 1942 by Japanese forces in Santo Tomas Internment Camp for the next three years, until liberation in early 1945. After the war ended in 1945, she and her parents moved to the United States. Liz shares intimate details of their experiences in the camp.
Date: November 10, 2015
Creator: Irvine, Elizabeth
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Yvonne Goodier Charles, November 10, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Yvonne Goodier Charles, November 10, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Yvonne Goodier Charles. Charles was born 10 September 1926 in Silver City, New Mexico. In November of 1933, her father was offered a mining job in Manila, Philippines and their family moved. In early 1942, after the outbreak of WWII, Charles and her family were imprisoned by Japanese forces in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, where they remained until their liberation in early 1945. Charles shares intimate details of their experiences in the camp.
Date: November 10, 2015
Creator: Charles, Yvonne Goodier
System: The Portal to Texas History