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The Die is Cast: The Final Campaigns of the Pacific War 1944-1945
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Chester W. Nimitz Personal Letters, 1893-1911
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1942: Issue in Doubt
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Correspondence, Joseph E. and Catherine Dawe Davis
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Nimitz Family Photograph Collection
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The Lessons Learned: Military Preparedness 1941/1988
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U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts Letters Collection
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Clifford Baird Collection
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Documenting the War Collection
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Oral History Interview with Edgar Granger, March 9, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Edgar Granger. Granger was born in Beaumont, Texas 2 July 1916 and graduated from high school in 1934. In 1935 he joined the Merchant Marines as a deck hand with the Lykes Brothers Steamship Company. In 1941 he entered the Merchant Marine officers training class at Alameda, California. After receiving his third-class mate’s license he went aboard the SS San Antonio. He tells of picking up survivors of the merchant ship SS Cities Service that had been torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Louisiana. He then joined the Atlantic-Gulf-West Indies Lines and went aboard the newly constructed Liberty ship, SS Mary Austin (1943) and took a load of Higgins boats to Scotland. Granger experienced a storm so sever on the Atlantic that it sank three ships in the convoy and damaged the Mary Austin. During the Battle of the Bulge, while aboard the SS John Cropper, the ship took a load of gasoline in 5 gallon Jerry cans to Antwerp, Belgium. From there Granger and crew went to Cherbourg, France and picked up 350 German prisoners and took them to New York City. Following the …
Date:
March 9, 2011
Creator:
Granger, Edgar
Object Type:
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Oral History Interview with Joseph Finigan, March 4, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Joseph Finigan. Finigan joined the Navy in January 1941. He worked at a Navy radio station and then was sent to the USS Bootes (AK-99) to serve as a yeoman. Finigan describes his ship picking up wounded Marines at New Caledonia. The Bootes was then designated as an ammunition ship and operated out of New Guinea. He discusses what it was like to serve on an ammunition ship. Finigan traveled to the Philippines where the Bootes continued to distribute ammunition to the fleet. He tells of the Bootes shooting down 6 Japanese planes in one day including a close call with a kamikaze. Finigan returned to the US and was discharged for medical reasons in June 1945.
Date:
March 4, 2011
Creator:
Finigan, Joseph
Object Type:
Sound
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Oral History Interview with Charles Hayes, March 13, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Hayes. Hayes joined the Navy in March 1943 and received basic training in Illinois and received further training with Navy commandos in San Francisco. Upon completion, he was assigned to CUB 7 as a rifleman and sent to Bougainville but instead diverted to Australia due to a storm. He was assigned to Gamadodo, a supply depot in New Guinea, where he refueled ships. During his year-long stay there, he was bombed daily until a P-38 base was installed nearby. His next assignment was in the Philippines. Hayes was then transferred to USS Waller (DD-466) where he was assigned to the engine room until the end of the war. He was onboard when the Waller destroyed a surfaced Japanese submarine, and provides graphic details of the fate of the crew. While patrolling the Yangtze River, the Waller hit a mine and was repaired in Shanghai. He recounts the poverty and destitution he witnessed in China. After the ship was repaired, Hayes returned home and was discharged in March 1946.
Date:
March 13, 2011
Creator:
Hayes, Charles
Object Type:
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Oral History Interview with Joseph Doyon, March 16, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Joseph Doyon. Doyon worked as a machinist at Bath Iron Works until he joined the Navy in March 1943. He was sent to diesel school and then small boat training to become an engineman on a LCVP. Doyon was assigned to USS LST-506, which traveled to England. He tells of the preparations for D-Day taking part in the landing on 6 June at Normandy. Doyon describes picking up wounded on the beach and several Asian POWs in German uniforms. He discusses the difficulties that the LSTs had getting ashore and one incident where he had to use signal flags to direct one of them away from a mine field. Doyon was then a part of a Navy detachment that was sent inland with their LCVPs to take part in the crossing of the Rhine River. He describes some of the events that he witnessed including a barge carrying German prisoners capsizing. Doyon was sent to the Pacific soon after and was on Kwajalein when the war ended. He left the service six months later.
Date:
March 16, 2011
Creator:
Doyon, Joseph
Object Type:
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System:
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Oral History Interview with William E. Steigerwald, March 24, 2011
Transcript of an oral interview with William E. Steigerwald. He begins by describing the conditions he grew up in during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He joined the Marine Corps and went to boot camp at Parris Island. He trained on radar and shipped out to New Caledonia for more training, this time with Marine Raider battalions. He contracted malaria on Guadalcanal and was assigned to the 3rd Defense Battalion, and antiaircraft artillery unit. Eventually, he was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 11th Marines, an artiller yunit in the 1st Marine Division. He discusses landing in the third wave on Okinawa. He participated in the battle at Kunishi Ridge and describes killing a Japanese soldier. When Japan surrendered, Steigerwald went with the First marine Division to China to facilitate the Japanese surrender there. He stayed in the Marine Corps and became a Drill INstrucotr before going to the Korean War. He finishes by telling anecdotes about his career in the Marines. He retired in 1967.
Date:
March 24, 2011
Creator:
Steigerwald, William E.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James M. Jones, March 29, 2011
Transcript of an oral interview with James Jones. He discusses joining the Army, being shipped to France to join the 3rd Army in Germany in early 1945, being in charge of a machine gun section in the 387th infantry regiment of the 97th division, then returning to the States for leave when he heard of Japan's surrender. Then he was shipped to Japan to be part of the occupation force after the war. He ancedotes about having to search the woods in Czechoslovakia for werewolves, riding in boxcars, meeting Russians and German farmers, escorting German prisoners who surrendered to camps and trying to put out a barracks fire while in Japan.
Date:
March 29, 2011
Creator:
Jones, James M.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Howard Hollinger, March 19, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Howard Hollinger. Hollinger joined the Coast Guard in 1941. He completed Radio School and High-Frequency Direction Finder training. Hollinger traveled to the Aleutian Islands, and was stationed at a High-Frequency Direction Finder station on a Navy base in Kodiak, Alaska. He tracked Navy planes that took off from Attu to bomb the Kuril Islands. Hollinger returned to the US and received a discharge around late 1945.
Date:
March 19, 2011
Creator:
Hollinger, Howard
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Nevin Sledge, March 1, 2013
The National Museumn of the Pacific War presents an interview with Nevin Sledge. Sledge joined the Naval Aviation Cadet Program in April 1942 after some Civilian Pilot Training prior to the outbreak of war. Upon completion of flight training, he became an instructor at Corpus Christi before deploying to the Pacific with Marine Transport Squadron 253 (VMR-253). Sledge shares several anecdotes about his time in the Pacific from Guam, Ulithi, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Date:
March 1, 2013
Creator:
Sledge, Nevin
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Glenn Kyzer, March 1, 2013
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Glenn Kyzer. Kyzer was attending Auburn University when he signed up for the Army Air Forces in March, 1943. He was eventually selected for pilot training. He was commissioned and earned his wings in April, 1944. He learned to fly B-24s before being shipped to Italy and joining the 737th Bomb Squadron, 454th Bomb Group in December 1944. Kyzer recalls several missions in detail over Germany, Italy, Austria, etc. He flew 28 total combat missions. He was discharged in November, 1945 after flying back to the US.
Date:
March 1, 2013
Creator:
Kyzer, Glenn
Object Type:
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System:
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Oral History Interview with Ed Spradling, March 7, 2013
The National Museum of the pacific War presents an interview with Ed Spradling. Spradling grauated from high school and went to work for North American Aviation, building B-24s in Grand Prairie, Texas. When he was old enough, he joined the Merchant Marine. After training, he joined a ship in April, 1945 in San Francisco. Spradling discusses life abord a liberty ship and some of his experiences, including a trip to Manila.
Date:
March 7, 2013
Creator:
Spradling, Ed
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Glynn Hull, March 7, 2013
The National museum of the Pacific War presents an ortal interview with Glynn Hull. Hull grew up on a farm in Iowa during the Depression. Hull entered the Army Air Forces in January 1943. He trained as a navigator. He was then assigned to a B-17 in the 551st Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb GRoup and went to England in 1944. Hull discusses a few missions and other experiences. On one mission, Hull had to bail out and became a prisoner of war. He shares several anecdotes and experiences about being a POW in Germany.
Date:
March 7, 2013
Creator:
Hull, Glynn
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Snellen, March 8, 2013
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James R. Snellen. Snellen was born 27 September 1926 in Bullitt County, Kentucky. He joined the Navy in April 1944 and went to Great Lakes Naval Training Center for boot camp. He then went to Fort Pierce, Florida for amphibious training as radioman and gunner on LCVPs. Upon completion, he was assigned to the USS Cofer (APD-62). At Leyte, Snellen saw the USS Mahan (DD-364) and the USS Lidde (APD-60) get hit by kamikazes. Afterwards, he boarded the stricken Lidde and scooped body parts over the side. While landing infantry on Mindoro, he observed the USS Nashville (CL-43) get hit by a kamikaze. In recalling one landing, in which the LCVP got stuck on a reef, Snellen saw the soldiers wading toward shore as a mortar round hit among them, killing them all. He also worked with underwater demolition teams at Borneo and tells of an attack on his ship during which crew shot down two Japanese planes. When Japan surrendered, the Cofer led six hospital ships through mine fields using a Japanese pilot arriving at Wakayama, Japan on 11 September. Upon departing, they sailed to Nagasaki and …
Date:
March 8, 2013
Creator:
Snellen, James
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eugene Ganske, March 10, 2013
The National museum of the Pacific War presents an ortal interview with Eugene Ganske. Ganske attempted to join the Navy but wopund up in the Marine Corps instead in May 1944. He trained as an anti-aircraft gunner and eventually was sent to Tinian to guard B-29s. He also deployed to Okinawa after the invasion. After the war, Ganske went to CHina with the First Marine Division.
Date:
March 10, 2013
Creator:
Ganske, Eugene
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Metcalf, March 15, 2013
The National museum of the Pacific War presents an ortal interview with James Metcalf. Metcalf joined the Navy in December 1942 and attended aviation ordnance school in Oklahoma after basic training. Afterward, Metcalf was assigned as a gunner in Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) and went aboard USS Franklin (CV-13) in January 1944. Metcalf flew raids on Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, Formosa, and Iwo Jima while with VT-13. He was aboard the Franklin in March when it was attacked and severly damaged. He returned with the ship to the US.
Date:
March 15, 2013
Creator:
Metcalf, James
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Stewart Elder, March 28, 2013
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Stewart Elder. Elder joined the Navy V-5 Program in 1942 and received his wings in November of 1944. He provides details of his flight training and the various of types of planes he flew. He was placed in a replacement squadron in Hawaii four months before the atomic bomb was dropped in Japan in August of 1945. They completed additional training exercises in Hawaii, and after the surrender he returned home. He completed over 1,000 hours of flying during operational training and additionally in the Ready Reserve. He was discharged around December of 1945.
Date:
March 28, 2013
Creator:
Elder, Stewart
Object Type:
Sound
System:
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Oral History Interview with Lester Wineland, March 29, 2013
The National museum of the Pacific War presents an ortal interview with Lester Wineland. Wineland joined the Navy in 1944 after finishing high school. After basic training, Wineland reported aboard USS Pringle (DD-477) in San Francisco. He served asa radarman aboard the ship and suffered from no end of seasickness. He recalls the kamikaze attack at Mindoro and was transferred from the ship just prior to it sailing for Okinawa. Wineland reported to officer training school in Pennsylvania. He was there when the war ended. Rahter than take a commission, he chose to be discharged.
Date:
March 29, 2013
Creator:
Wineland, Lester
Object Type:
Sound
System:
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Oral History Interview with Sidney Lanier, March 21, 2013
The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Sidney Lanier. Lanier recalls growing up and working during the Depression. He entered the Navy in March, 1943 and trained in San Diego. With training complete, Lanier reported to PC-1230 at New Orleans. They travelled to New Caledonia and stayed on station there for about a year before heading to Peleliu. At Peleliu, Lanier was assigned to the USS ATR-33 but travelled considerably before reaching his new ship in New Caledonia. He was discharged in January 1946.
Date:
March 21, 2013
Creator:
Lanier, Sidney
Object Type:
Sound
System:
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Oral History Interview with Clifford Ashby, March 6, 2007
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clifford Ashby. Ashby was born in Effingham, Illinois on 11 June 1925. He became interested in amateur radio while in high school and joined the Merchant Marines in 1943. After passing tests related to radio operations he was assigned to the liberty ship, SS James B. Francis (1942) as a radio operator. He tells of the ship loaded with ammunition sitting in the harbor at Guadalcanal with hoses pumping water on the deck to keep it cool. He also observed Japanese air raids over the island of Morotai. Ashby’s ship also participated in the invasion of Luzon. Later, he was assigned to the SS Benjamin Grierson commenting on the excellent food served aboard Liberty ships. He comments on the excellent wages paid to Merchant seaman and the fact that the pay was doubled when the ship was within a war zone. He tells of the SS Grierson setting at Ulithi with 40 other merchant ships for three months following the Japanese surrender. After leaving the Merchant Marine he attended various colleges and he comments on his career prior to retirement.
Date:
March 6, 2007
Creator:
Ashby, Clifford
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Bishop, March 13, 2013
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Bishop. Bishop was born in January of 1927. He graduated from high school in 1944, at the age of 17. He provides vivid recollections of life during wartime, with bomb drills, blackouts and living in a farming community in Wellington, Kansas. After graduation, Bishop worked for the US Department of Agriculture, and later served as an Emergency Wartime Carrier Clerk with the US Post Office. When he turned 18 in January of 1945, Bishop applied to join the Army, though was classified as 4-F and sent back home where he continued working for the Post Office.
Date:
March 13, 2013
Creator:
Bishop, William
Object Type:
Sound
System:
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Oral History Interview with Harry I. Tannehill, March 30, 2012
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Harry I. Tannehill. Tannehill was drafted into the Marine Corps in November, 1943. After basic training in San Diego, Tannehill moved to Hawaii and went through amphibious force training. Tannehill was attached to the 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division. Tannehill served as a crewmember aboard an LVT (Landing Vehicle, Tracked) and ferried Marines to the beaches at Iwo Jima. His LVT ran out of gas and sank on the first night. He was rescued from the water and resumed hauling supplies (food, water, ammunition) via LVT to the Marines on Iwo Jima the next day.
Date:
March 30, 2012
Creator:
Tannehill, Harry I.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert F. Wisehart, March 28, 2012
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert F. Wisehart. In early 1943, Wisehart joined the Army. He had basic training at Camp Swift, Texas. From there, he went to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where he primarily worked in the kitchen. Wisehart went overseas a sa replacement and was soon attached to the 99th infantry Division once he arrived in France. He went to France in October, 1944, as part of headquarters company, 1st Battalion, 394th Infantry Regiment. He joined the unit shortly after the Battle of the Bulge and went to work in the kitchen preparing meals for the soldiers. After the war, Wisehart was part of the Occupation in Karlstadt, Germany. Wisehart returned to the US and was discharged in October, 1945.
Date:
March 28, 2012
Creator:
Wisehart, Robert F.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Pierce, March 26, 2012
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Pierce. Pierce registered for the Army in 1942, working as a machinist in a defense plant until he was called to active duty. He deployed to Leyte with the 284th Ordinance Company and set up a mobile machine shop for the repair of amphibious tanks. His unit was unarmed, as they were told they would be far from the action. But he was warned by nearby soldiers to dig a foxhole as quickly as he could, to take cover from snipers. The next day, he found bullet holes in his truck. He also restored equipment after the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Transferring to Okinawa, his company sought refuge in their trucks to survive a typhoon. At the end of the war, Pierce boarded the same ship as Admiral Nimitz for his return trip to the States and had the pleasure of shaking his hand. Pierce was discharged into the Reserves, but the Army misplaced his papers, so he was not recalled to the Korean War. He attended night school on the GI Bill and contined working as a machinist.
Date:
March 26, 2012
Creator:
Pierce, John
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Walter White, March 6, 2012
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Walter White. White trained to be an aircraft electrician at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He was drafted into the Army Air Force and completed gunnery school in Arlington, Texas. He was assigned to the 492nd Bomb Group in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He served as tail gunner on B-24s. He provides description of the plane’s interior and location of tail gunner. In March of 1944 his crew traveled to a base in North Pickenham, England. Their plane was titled the Ruptured Duck. Overall, White flew 30 combat missions. He describes missions flown to Germany and between France and Switzerland. He returned to the States with 1,000 German prisoners aboard a troop ship. He was then assigned as an electrician to a B-17 outfit. He was discharged in October of 1945.
Date:
March 6, 2012
Creator:
White, Walter
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Francis Manniello, March 19, 2012
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Francis Manniello. Manniello joined the Army Air Corps in April 1941 after being drafted. In his county, the sons of Democrats were drafted before Republicans, so Manniello had been expecting this and took the aviation cadet exam early on. He was ultimately trained as a bombardier and navigator and in 1943 he deployed to England as a replacement for the 96th Bomb Group, 337th Squadron. He came under heavy fire during his first mission while bombing a railyard in Bremen, Germany. Despite losing a wing and part of the vertical stabilizer, he landed safely and completed 24 more missions. Manniello was transferred to the States to teach both celestial and radar navigation and remained in the service and served as a commanding officer in the Korean War. One of his soldiers committed suicide, which Manniello conscientiously reported as KIA to the deceased's family. He advanced to lieutenant colonel and retired in 1969 after representing the United States at the NATO Air Defense Ground Environment (NADGE).
Date:
March 19, 2012
Creator:
Manniello, Francis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
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