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Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001
Interview with Ethel Reisburg Schectman of Fort Worth, Texas, who was born in New York City during the Great Depression to Jewish Polish immigrant parents. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences of World War II on the home front, including memories of D-Day, iron metal scrap drives, victory gardens, rationing, V-E and V-J Days, and what it was like being Jewish in Dallas during that time.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Joseph B. Brown, March 23, 2001
Interview with Joseph B. Brown of Abilene, Texas, who is a World War Two veteran of the United States Marine Corps. In the interview, Mr. Brown recalls memories of growing up and his time in the Marines, particularly from training, being wounded, and working campaigns in the South Pacific.
Date:
March 23, 2001
Creator:
Cox, William G. & Brown, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Maurice Stamps, March 18, 2009
Interview with Maurice Stamps, a serviceman in the U. S. Army during World War II. Stamps discusses growing up on a farm in Iowa, joining the army, going to Hawaii and staying at Schofield Barracks. He was assigned to the Classification/Assignment section at Fort Shafter without ever having basic training. He was later assigned to the Message Center at Ft. Shafter. He remembers his correspondence with his girlfriend Enid, whom he married upon his discharge in 1946.
Date:
March 18, 2009
Creator:
Misenhimer, Richard & Stamps, Maurice
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William F. Graham, March 24, 2001
Interview with Bill Graham, a Marine during World War II. He begins by discussing joining the Navy and becoming a corpsman, then being transferred to the 2nd Marine Division after the Pearl Harbor attack. He also talks being in the first wave on Guadalcanal and various things that happened during the six months there, as well as contracting a severe strain of malaria, getting shipped back to the States and stationed near his home in Fort Worth, then returning to training in Virginia to prepare for an invasion of Japan.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Smith, Ned A. & Graham, William F.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Joseph B. Brown, March 24, 2001
Interview with Joseph Brown, who was in the Marine Corps during World War II. He discusses going to Guadalcanal, various guns and artillery he used, the battle of Tarawa and getting malaria just before it, then going to Hawaii for more training before returning to the South Pacific and fighting on Saipan and Tinian. He also discusses being wounded on Saipan, having a bayonet run through his forearm and keeping the bayonet as a souvenir after the war, and he talks about some of his experiences and travels after the war.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Cox, William G. & Brown, Joseph B.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Hazael R. Olivares, March 29, 2003
Interview with Hazael R. Olivares, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. Olivares dropped out of high school and decided to join the U. S. Navy after hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He took his 16-week basic training course at Great Lakes in Illinois where he learned how to fire various guns and recognize aircraft. After basic training, he was assigned to Algiers, Louisiana where he learned how to weld. Aboard the USS Bordelon (DD-881), he served as a Ship Fitter in the damage control department. After WWII, he remained in the reserves and was called up for duty in Korea. He served aboard the USS Sitkoh Bay (CVE-86). After Korea, he worked as a civilian for the Army Corps of Engineers as an oiler on a dredge. He then served in the Merchant Marines, hauling refined petroleum products from South America to North America. He also discusses going to French Indochina (Vietnam) and traveling up the Saigon River in a merchant vessel.
Date:
March 29, 2003
Creator:
Misenhimer, Richard & Olivares, Hazael R.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman, March 24, 2001
Interview with Ethel Reisberg Schectman regarding her experiences during World War II. She begins by discussing her family background: her parents were Jews born in Poland and emigrated to the United States. Ethel's European aunts, uncles and grandparents all likely died in the Holocaust. As a first grade student, she taught her mother, a Polish immigrant, how to read and write English. She recalls, wartime rationing, Victory Gardens, scrap drives, and antisemitism among her school-aged classmates in Dallas, Texas, and the end of the war.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Cox, Floyd & Schectman, Ethel Reisberg
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Annie May Web, March 24, 2001
Interview with Annie (Amy) May Webb discussing her husband's service and her experiences on the homefront during World War II. She describes delivering word of the birth of their daughter to her husband while he was aboard the USS Bennington serving with VMF-112.
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Bloomfield, Vivian & Webb, Annie May
Object Type:
Sound
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.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Joe Davis to Catherine Davis - March 18, 1945]
Letter from Joe to his wife Catherine discussing his guilt at not writing her, his sympathy for Mrs. Dawe's injury, his plans to move out of Luling when he returns home, and visiting Walter.
Date:
March 18, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Joseph Emmett
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Joe Davis to Catherine Davis - March 1, 1945]
Letter from Joe to his wife Catherine discussing the mail service, his respect for the way Catherine handled her falling out with Mr. Davis, the weather, smoking too many cigarettes, and looking forward to coming home.
Date:
March 1, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Joseph Emmett
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 12, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including a spat with Baker over Elaine staying with Catherine, which escalated into Nell going through Catherine and Elain's closets and taking the clothes she had given them. Catherine resolves to stay positive, and intends to play bridge and eat ice cream with Corrine, Maxine, and Martha.
Date:
March 12, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 3, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including Catherine's feeling ill, Mother breaking a few ribs, and Baker borrowing the car.
Date:
March 3, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 8, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including plans for a trip to San Antonio with Martha, the weather, and some sewing she has done.
Date:
March 8, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 10, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including the weather, plans to wash the curtain, and enjoying a few beers with Lorraine.
Date:
March 10, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 9, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including Emma having poison ivy, an unpleasant chat with Baker and Nell, and the weather.
Date:
March 9, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 7, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including starting to sew a blouse, someone coming to do yardwork, and attending a dinner in honor of K. J. Kyle at College Station.
Date:
March 7, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Catherine Davis to Joe Davis - March 5, 1945]
Letter from Catherine to her husband Joe discussing news from home, including going to Maxine's party on Saturday night, visiting Mother, who is suffering with her broken ribs, and Kelly being in the hospital in San Antonio.
Date:
March 5, 1945
Creator:
Davis, Catherine Dawe
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Warren, March 28, 2022
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Warren. Warren was born in Frisco, Texas in February 1921. After graduating from high school, he attended Texas A&M participating in the ROTC program for two years. Upon graduation in 1942 he applied for a commission in the United States Army Air Forces and was accepted. After participating in various stages of flight training, he was assigned as a C-47 pilot. Flying the Northern Route over Greenland, he joined the 439th Troop Carrier Wing, 94th Squadron, 9th Air Force in England. He tells of being involved in Operation Market Garden and of crossing the Rhine, where he pulled Waco CG-4 gliders, and of the Battle of the Bulge where he hauled fuel for General Patton’s tanks.
Date:
March 28, 2022
Creator:
Warren, Robert
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William C. Beyer, March 14, 2001
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William C. Beyer. Beyer grew up in Texas and joined the Marines in January 1942. After training, he was assigned to the third division in artillery. He departed on the USS Mount Vernon for New Zealand. He anecdotes about meeting with some Maori people. Then he departed on the Cresent City for Guadalcanal in May 1943. From Guadalcanal he left for Bougainville in November 1943. He describes being caught in a foxhole for two days without communication. He also listened to Tokyo Rose on the radio. The Army relieved the Marines January 15, 1944, and his unit returned to Guadalcanal. On July 21, 1944, they landed on Guam and went into battle. Next Beyer left for Iwo Jima. The Third Marine Division was assigned to the central area of the island. He witnessed the raising of the flag. On the 50th anniversary of the war, Beyer and his wife returned to New Zealand and Guam.
Date:
March 14, 2001
Creator:
Beyer, William C.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Annie (Amy) May Webb, March 24, 2001
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Annie May Webb. She discusses her husband's service and her experiences on the homefront. She describes delivering word of the birth of their daughter to her husband while he was aboard the USS Bennington serving with VMF-112
Date:
March 24, 2001
Creator:
Webb, Annie (Amy) May
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Abelino Alviar, March 14, 2003
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Abelino Alviar. Alviar joined the Army in May of 1944. In early 1945, he joined the 778th Anti-aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. They deployed to Le Havre, France, and traveled to Munich, Germany, arriving after the Battle of the Ardennes. Alviar provided guard duty, and served as a gunner on the half-track supporting the 1st Infantry Division as they fought into Germany. He also worked as a translator and helped transport supplies to the front line. He returned home and was discharged in May of 1946.
Date:
March 14, 2003
Creator:
Alviar, Abelino
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Albert Brown, March 2, 2010
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Albert Brown. Brown joined the Navy and served as a Radarman with amphibious forces at Guadalcanal for one year. In 1942, Brown worked aboard submarines as a specialist in surface attacks using radar. Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed him the officer in charge to create the Pacific Fleet Radar School for Senior Officers, and to instruct them in radar techniques. Brown completed this work through late 1945. He continued his service after the war ended.
Date:
March 2, 2010
Creator:
Brown, Albert
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History