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Oral History Interview with Robert D. Haines, May 15, 2002
Interview with Robert D. Haines, an American prisoner of war during World War II. He discusses the attack on Clark Field in the Philippines on December 8, 1941, as well as his experiences on the Bataan Death March. He also tells of his time spent as a prisoner of war under the Japanese at Camp O'Donnell, Cabanatuan and Bilibid prison in Manila. He encountered his brother, who was a civilian internee, at Bilibid. From there, he rode on a hell ship for 39 days to a POW camp in Formosa (Taiwan). When the Americans began bombing Formosa, Haines was moved via another hell ship to Tokyo, Japan. Not long after, he was liberated and returned to San Francisco, then Denver.
Date:
May 15, 2002
Creator:
Graham, Eddie & Haines, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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 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 Dale R. Walker, October 4, 2007
Interview with Dale R. Walker, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He joined the Marine Corps in 1944 and was trained in mortars at Camp Pendleton, California. He then went to Camp Tarawa at Hawaii for further training with the Fifth Marine Division. Walker landed with the sixth wave on D-day at Iwo Jima. While working with mortars supporting the infantry, he was called on to be a stretcher-bearer on occasion. Walker spent 36 days on Iwo Jima. After the Japanese surrendered, Walker served in the occupation of Japan.
Date:
October 4, 2007
Creator:
Misenhimer, Richard & Walker, Dale R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Paul Jackson, April 10, 2008
Interview with Paul Jackson, a U. S. Marine during World War II. He discusses his time in boot camp at Camp Pendleton and his combat experiences in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Date:
April 10, 2008
Creator:
Roberts, Virginia & Jackson, Paul
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
Reminiscenses of an Oral Historian
Sound recording of Dr. Charles Morrissey giving a talk titled "Reminiscences of an Oral Historian" during an address to the Oral History Conference at Fullerton.
Date:
April 21, 1972
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Plenary Session 5 at the 1970 Oral History Colloquium]
Sound recording of T. Harry Williams speaking at Plenary Session 5 at the 1970 Oral History Colloquium at the Asilomar Conference center in Pacific Grove, California.
Date:
November 15, 1970
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
[Plenary Session 6 at the 1970 Oral History Colloquium]
Sound recording of Gary L. Shumway, Arline Custer, and Louis Starr speaking during Plenary Session 6 at the 1970 Oral History Colloquium in Pacific Grove, California at the Asilomar Conference Center.
Date:
November 16, 1970
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Bruce Stone Gives a Talk at the 5th Annual Colloquium]
Sound recording of Bruce Stone giving a talk during the 5th Annual Oral History Association Colloquium at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California.
Date:
November 15, 1970
Creator:
Oral History Association
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Subject oriented programs
Sound recording of Gould P. Colman speaking during the 1:30 P.M. session at the Fifth Annual National Colloquium of the Oral History Association at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California.
Date:
November 15, 1970
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
[James V. Mink Interviewed by Bernard Galm about the History of the Oral History Association]
Sound recording of James V. Mink being interviewed by Bernard Galm about the history of the Oral History Association at Powell Library at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.
Date:
September 21, 1979
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