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Specialty Oral History transcript

Specialty Oral History

Sound recording of E. Douglas Hamilton giving a talk titled "Specialty Oral History" during the 2nd National Oral History Colloquium at Arden House in Harriman, New York.
Date: November 1967
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Morning and Afternoon Sessions during the 2nd National Oral History Association Colloquium] transcript

[Morning and Afternoon Sessions during the 2nd National Oral History Association Colloquium]

Sound recording of Donald J. Schippers, E. Douglas Hamilton, Philip Brooks, Elwood Maunder, Doug Adair, Willa Baum, and James Harvey Young giving speeches and holding a group discussion during the 2nd National Oral History Colloquium at Arden House.
Date: November 20, 1967
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Evening Session during the 2nd National Oral History Colloquium] transcript

[Evening Session during the 2nd National Oral History Colloquium]

Sound recording of panelists speaking during the 2nd Annual Oral History Colloquium. Philip Crowl and Forrest C. Pogue give talks during the session.
Date: November 20, 1967
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Morning Session During the 2nd Annual Colloquium] transcript

[Morning Session During the 2nd Annual Colloquium]

Sound recording of Oral History Association members conducting a morning session during the 2nd Annual Oral History Colloquium at Arden House in Harriman, New York.
Date: November 21, 1967
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Business Session transcript

New Business Session

Sound recording of a talk during the 2nd National Oral History Association Colloquium titled "New Business Session".
Date: November 1967
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Afternoon and Evening Sessions, 2nd National Oral History Colloquium] transcript

[Afternoon and Evening Sessions, 2nd National Oral History Colloquium]

Sound recording of panelists speaking during the 2nd Annual Oral History Association Colloquium.
Date: November 19, 1967
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Etiquette of Race Relations transcript

The Etiquette of Race Relations

Sound recording of Harlon E. Joye, E. Barnerd West, and Dana F. White from the Living Atlanta Project giving a talk titled "The Etiquette of Race Relations" during the Buffalo 14th Annual National Colloquium on Oral History.
Date: October 26, 1979
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interviews and the documentation of Vietnam combat operations, part 2 transcript

Interviews and the documentation of Vietnam combat operations, part 2

Sound recording of a round table discussion featuring Peter Arnett, James Collins, Oscar Fitzgerald, Ward Just, Forrest Pogue, Benis Frank, and Robert Zimmerman, at the Eighth Annual National Colloquium of the Oral History Association at West Point.
Date: November 3, 1973
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Afternoon and Evening Session, 2nd National Oral History Colloquium] transcript

[Afternoon and Evening Session, 2nd National Oral History Colloquium]

Sound recording of Richard T. Logsdon, James V. Mink, and other unidentified speakers giving speeches during the 2nd national Oral History Colloquium.
Date: November 18, 1967
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conducting interviews during or immediately after important historical events transcript

Conducting interviews during or immediately after important historical events

Sound recording of Stephen Ward, Irene Cortinovis, and Joseph Cash speaking at the Eighth Annual National Colloquium of the Oral History Association at West Point.
Date: November 3, 1973
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Session on Interviewers and their Training] transcript

[Session on Interviewers and their Training]

Sound recording of members of the Oral History Association giving a speech about interviewers and their training. Session recorded at Arden House during the 2nd Annual Oral History Colloquium.
Date: November 18, 1967
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interviews and the documentation of Vietnam combat operations, part 1 transcript

Interviews and the documentation of Vietnam combat operations, part 1

Sound recording of a round table discussion featuring Peter Arnett, James Collins, Oscar Fitzgerald, Ward Just, Forrest Pogue, Benis Frank, and Robert Zimmerman, at the Eighth Annual National Colloquium of the Oral History Association at West Point.
Date: November 3, 1973
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
The American Dream; The Success Ethic transcript

The American Dream; The Success Ethic

Sound recording of Jo Blatti giving a talk titled "The American Dream; The Success Ethic" during the 14th Annual National Colloquium on Oral History at State University of New York, Buffalo, NY. Michael Frisch is the moderator and commentator during the talk.
Date: October 26, 1979
Creator: Oral History Association
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lewis R. Hopkins, January 15, 2004 transcript

Oral History Interview with Lewis R. Hopkins, January 15, 2004

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 cross-country to San Francisco after the Pearl Harbor attack. He eventually joined the USS Enterprise in April 1942 and saw the B-25 bombers in the Doolittle Raid take off. He was part of Bombing Squadron Six and trained under Commander Best to learn how to do scouting flights, navigation, and dive bombing. He then describes his participation in the Battle of Midway, the hours before take-off, his first view of the Japanese fleet, and his bombing mission. He was later assigned to the USS Hornet and had to fly off to a little island so that planes from the USS Wasp could land on the Hornet after their ship …
Date: January 15, 2004
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Hopkins, Lewis R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Albert Bouley, June 27, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with Albert Bouley, June 27, 2001

Interview with Albert Bouley, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He discusses his enlistment in the Marines just after Pearl Harbor; his assignment to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Division; the battle of Guadalcanal; malaria and dysentery; the battle of Cape Gloucester; the use of Pavuvu as a base; the battle of Peleliu; his return to the United States; guard duty at the Brooklyn Naval Yard and his service as an instructor in a heavy weapons school before the end of the war. He joined the Air Force 2 1/2 years later to be able to fly and work on planes, then retire to become a teacher in California, and finally settled in Texas.
Date: June 27, 2001
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Bouley, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jerell E. Crow, August 24, 2002 transcript

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 Boyd K. Miller, January 21, 2003 transcript

Oral History Interview with Boyd K. Miller, January 21, 2003

Interview with Boyd K. Miller, a draftsman and pilot during World War II. He discusses being drafted out of college and working as an artist and draftsman. Since he studied art in college, he worked on diagrams and charts. He then transferred to the Air Corps to become a pilot and trained in Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama, New York, Georgia, Florida and Texas.
Date: January 21, 2003
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & Miller, Boyd K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Bennett, November 15, 2001 transcript

Oral History Interview with Richard Bennett, November 15, 2001

Interview with Richard (Dick) Bennett, a pilot during World War II. He discusses his enlistment in the Army Air Corps, basic training and flight school. He then went to a base in South Carolina to learn to fly B-25s. At Fort Myers, Florida he flew B-26 bombers and trained to fly them off of aircraft carriers so they could drop torpedos on the Japanese fleet during naval battles. He traveled across the Pacific to Brisbane only to be told that they didn't have B-26s for the crews; the colonel there knew nothing about the plan to launch B-26s from aircraft carriers, so they were sent to New Guinea to fly B-17s and supplement the crews for those bombers. From there they made bombing runs or "Washing Machine Charlie"-type runs to keep people awake at night on various Japanese targets in the islands, particularly the base at Rabaul. In fall of 1943, the Army grounded the B-17s due to the damage they had incurred and replaced them with B-24s. The men received manuals and were given only a few days to familiarize themselves with the new planes. They were then sent on bombing runs. He finished his tour of duty at …
Date: November 15, 2001
Creator: Cox, Floyd & Bennett, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alan Pilot, August 10, 2010 transcript

Oral History Interview with Alan Pilot, August 10, 2010

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Alan Pilot. Pilot joined the Army in January 1943 and received basic training at Camp Howze. He received further training in Louisiana for the European Theater and then in California for the Pacific Theater. In January he left for Camp Old Gold at La Havre, where he served as a combat medic, supporting Companies E, G, and H of the 343rd Infantry, 86th Division. His unit relieved the 8th Division and fought in Cologne, where he was stationed at the top of the cathedral while it was being shelled. In the Ruhr Pocket a defective shell landed 10 feet away from him. He recalls seeing 100,000 Germans surrender there. He describes the Bavarian people as friendly as he passed through Austria on VE Day. He was then sent to the Pacific as part of Operation Coronet. VJ Day came while he was still crossing the Pacific. He spent the last five months of his service in the Philippines at a quiet outpost while the rest of his unit prepared the Philippines for independence. Pilot returned home and was discharged in January 1946.
Date: August 10, 2010
Creator: Pilot, Alan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Al Kiracofe, March 6, 2006 transcript

Oral History Interview with Al Kiracofe, March 6, 2006

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Kiracofe. Kiracofe joined the Navy in 1942 and received yeoman training at Great Lakes. Upon completion, he was assigned to CASU-22 at Quonset Point, helping to prepare squadrons for overseas deployment. He was then assigned to Carrier Air Group 41, which was just beginning to use radar for night flying. One of his duties as yeoman was to send letters of regret to the parents of soldiers who were killed in action. The experience upset him to the point that he remembered the date of each letter for the rest of his life. He was transferred to Carrier Air Group 10 aboard the USS Intrepid (CV-11) and helped to set up squadrons in Alameda from January 1943 to September 1944. At Okinawa, a kamikaze hit caused the deaths of eight men on the Intrepid. When the ship returned to Alameda for repairs, Kiracofe was so shaken up that he was ordered to a US Naval hospital for treatment and received a medical discharge in July 1945.
Date: March 6, 2006
Creator: Kiracofe, Al
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, January 21, 2008 transcript

Oral History Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, January 21, 2008

Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, an Armed Guard in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses lying about his age in order to join the navy at 15 and his experience in boot camp. He served as an Armed Guard on merchant ships that transported supplies across the Atlantic and remembers being in London while German bombers flew overhead. He transported German prisoners out of Marseilles and Naples shortly after the liberation of those cities. He remembers going to Times Square upon hearing that the Japanese had surrendered. He claims to have been the sailor in the iconic photo of the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square on V-J Day. He describes how he proved he was the sailor in the photo, what he did after the war, and how he learned that his brother survived the Bataan Death March.
Date: January 21, 2008
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & McDuffie, Glenn E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with A. J. Durham, October 12, 2013 transcript

Oral History Interview with A. J. Durham, October 12, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with A J Durham. Durham joined the Navy in February of 1943. He served with Composite Squadron 55 (VC-55). After basic training, Durham worked at the Naval Air Station in Astoria, Oregon and unloaded ammunition ships. He later served with the Ordnance Department, synchronizing 30 caliber machine guns aboard TBMs. Durham transferred to Composite Squadron 4 (VC-4), and completed Torpedo School, and served as a Torpedo man and an Aviation Ordnance Mate aboard a TBF Avenger. In April of 1944, he began serving aboard USS White Plains (CVE-66) and recalls his experiences aboard the carrier during invasions of the Mariana and Palau Islands, and through the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Durham remained aboard during Operation MAGIC CARPET, returning troops back to the US. He continued his service in the Reserves, receiving his discharge in the early 1950s.
Date: October 12, 2013
Creator: Durham, A. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Aaron C. Kulow transcript

Oral History Interview with Aaron C. Kulow

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Aaron C. Kulow. Kulow grew up in Michigan and enlisted in the Navy in 1942. After training, he joined the ship USS Pollux AKS-4 at Norfolk, Virginia. Initially the ship runs trips down to the Carribbean and Brazil but in 1943 is fitted with radar and sent to the Pacific Theater. In the Pacific, the general stores issue ship visited Australia, New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and the New Hebrides Islands. He then returned to San Francisco in 1944 where his wife met him to get married. He left for the Pacific again and in 1945 traveled to the Philippines. In 1945 Kulow met survivors of the Bataan Death March that had been liberated. He remembers going to a friend's burial in the Philippines. On V-J Day Kulow was at Manila Harbor. He left for America in October 1945 and was discharged in New York December 12, 1945.
Date: unknown
Creator: Kulow, Aaron C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Commander Hal Lamar, USNR (Ret.) Remembers Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz transcript

Commander Hal Lamar, USNR (Ret.) Remembers Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Transcript of an oral monologue with Hal Lamar. He reflects on Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz during his time serving as the Admiral's personal aide and secretary. He describes Nimitz's character and abilities as a leader. Lamar shares anecdotes about visiting wounded men and awarding Purple Heart medals, other officers coming to call, recreating, visiting Tarawa ,and activities at the new headquarters on Guam.
Date: February 1, 1980
Creator: Lamar, Hal
System: The Portal to Texas History