Tyler Utt and Melissa Robinson eliciting words from the LLEC word list with Sumshot Khular.

Melissa Robinson eliciting words from the LLEC word list with Sumshot Khular.

Elicitation of words from the LLEC word list with Sumshot Khular.

Tyler Utt and Melissa Robinson eliciting words from the LLEC word list with Sumshot Khular.

Melissa Robinson eliciting words from the LLEC word list with Sumshot Khular.

Melissa Robinson eliciting words from the LLEC word list with Sumshot Khular.

This is a monologue about bees and bee farming. it was recoded at a bee farm near Denton Texas.

Sumshot Khular singing Vau Sen, a song about nature, mountains, hills, trees. wind, water, stars, moon, clouds and all the wonderful creation of the creator God. Calling youths of today, let us rise up to save the environment. Composed by Tony Khular of Thamlakhuren village, Chandel district, Manipur.

Sumshot Khular singing Vau Sen, a song about nature, with introduction in Lamkang. Composed by Tony Khular in praise of the beauty of the Lamkang land with its beautiful creation. Calling the youths to stand up and save the environment and land.

Tyler Utt elicits prefixed verbs from Sumshot Khular.

Recording of an elicitation script of inflected verbs with three or more agreement prefixes. The speaker is Sumshot Khular, who worked on this recording as a visiting scholar at the University of North Texas.

Tyler Utt elicits prefixed verbs in Lamkang with Sumshot Khular.

Sumshot Khular translates and helps analyze a recording of the story of Smangyur as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu.

Oral history with Willa Mei Kurland and Charlotte Cotter regarding their trip to China to search for their birth parents. They discuss their expectations going into the trip, the attention they received from the Chinese media, and how they were embraced by Charlotte's birth family and Willa's foster family. Charlotte and Willa also speak about the aftermath of finding their birth and foster families and what their families' hopes and expectations are regarding future contact. This interview was conducted while Willa and Charlotte were in China on their birth parents search, towards the end of their trip.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Lawrence. Lawrence graduated high school in 1938 or 1939. He then joined the Navy and completed boot camp in California. He served aboard the USS Portland (CA-33) as a radar operator. He did not go to school to learn the radar, he learned what he needed to know aboard the ship. His ship was torpedoed during the Naval Battle at Guadalcanal in 1942. After the ship was repaired they stayed in the Pacific. He served for three years and three months. Once he was discharged he worked for a local delivery dairy in Santa Rosa.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dick Bulington. Bulington joined the Army in January 1946. He completed his training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. He had weapons training. After basic training he was sent to Germany in April 1946. They landed in Le Havre, France and went by train to Germany. He served in the 508th Military Police Battalion in Munich. He was then transferred to the 1st Infantry Division. He served partially as an MP with the division and as a guard during the Nuremberg War Crime Trials in Germany. He was discharged April 1949. He provides some description of civilian life in Germany. He continued helping on his family’s farm when he returned home.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Baldwin. Baldwin was learning to fly through the Civilian Pilot Training program when he was called to active duty in January, 1943. After basic training, he went to flight training. He graduated and was commissioned in March, 1944. Baldwin was sent to France in November, 1944 and attached to the 36th Fighter Group, 23rd Fighter Squadron and began flying combat missions in a P-47. He flew 51 combat missions before the war ended and shares several anecdotes about his experiences. Baldwin was discharged in December 1945, but stayed in the Reserves until 1982.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Juventino Mata. Mata was born of Mexican-American parents on a ranch in Imperial County, California. He recalls being forced to flee Mexico as a youngster due to the Cristero War conducted by the Mexican dictator Elias Calles. In the US, Mata attended a segregated school to the 8th grade at which time he quit to contribute to the family income. He tells of the family working as itinerate farm workers, picking various crops throughout California. In 1942, he was drafted into the US Army Air Forces. Upon completion of basic training, he joined the 29th Fighter Group, 55th Fighter Squadron and went to England aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth. There he became a cook for the unit. He tells of the missions of the 55th Fighter Squadron and the various types of fighter planes they flew. Mata was discharged in late 1945.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Hubert Kosub. Kosub continues his original conversation which was recorded in 2014 (Oral History # 04158). He relates his experience aboard USS Lyra (AK-101) as it escorted a group of floating dry docks when they sailed from the US to the Admiralty Islands. He tells of the construction and purpose of docks. Kosub was discharged in late 1945.

The National Museum of The Pacific War presents an interview with William Katavolos. Katavolos was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924. He tells of being friends, as a youngster, with a German family who was arrested as being German spies and the circumstances that contributed to the charge. He was drafted into the Army Air Forces in 1942 and was sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison for training as an X-Ray Technician. Later, he was assigned to Wendover Air Force Base, Utah. Katavolos tells of his experiences there, including a fateful meeting with Colonel Paul Tibbetts resulting in his transfer to Davis-Monthan Army Air Field, Arizona. Katavolos was later assigned to the 311th Station Hospital in Manila, Philippines. He expresses his opinion of the worthiness of General Eichelberger. Katavolos was discharged in mid-1946.

The National Museum of the pacific War presents an interview with Arthur Wages. Wages joined the Navy in February 1943 and trained at Great Lakes and then attended quartermaster school in Rhode Island. When he got overseas to New Caledonia, he was assigned to the USS Washington (BB-56) in late 1943. He was aboard when the Washington was involved in a collision at sea. After a brief home leave and repairs, Wages returned to the ship and participated in the action at the Mariana Islands, the Palaus, the Philippines and others. He was aboard when the war ended and was discharged in February, 1946.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jeremiah Tuttle. Tuttle joined the Navy in January 1943 and trained at Great Lakes in gunnery and fire control. When complete, he reported aboard the USS Bache (DD-470) and they headed for the Aleutian Islands. He was also aboard the ship when it was attached to the 7th Fleet and operated around New Guinea. He shares several anecdotes of his time aboard and R&R in Australia. He was aboard when the invasion of the Philippines commenced. He returned to the US and attended another gunnery school and was aboard another ship headed for the Pacific when he received his discharge in March, 1946. He was recalled for the Korean War and served aboard the USS Alfred A. Cunningham (DD-752).

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Carl Stevens. Stevens joined the U.S. Army Air Forces Aviation Cadet College Reserve April 1943. He was in the Air Training Command. He served as an Aviation Cadet. He went to Kessler Field in Mississippi for training, then on to Memphis State College for college training. Then he moved on to Scott Field, Illinois to learn radio operator mechanics. He moved on and while in the middle of B-29 flight engineer school the war in the Pacific ended. Overall he was either in training or served as an instructor. The day after the war ended he applied for resignation and resigned November of 1945. He joined the Tennessee Air Guard, serving as their Special Service Officer and later as an aide-de-camp to the commanding general. He was transferred in April of 1951 to Texas. He served with the Guard in Texas as a first lieutenant and aid to the commanding general. He utilized his G.I. Bill at Vanderbilt University.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Lowe. Lowe joined the Army Air Forces in October 1944. He completed basic training in Wichita Falls, Texas, gunnery school in Fort Myers, Florida and Clovis, New Mexico. His training consisted of simulation bombing flights over Syracuse, New York and Havana, Cuba. Lowe completed reconnaissance training in Salina, Kansas. He was later transferred to Lincoln, Nebraska where he was assigned to a bomb crew to serve as a B-29 tail gunner. For Lowe, the war ended before he could be deployed overseas or complete any combat missions. He was assigned to Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where he received his discharge in August of 1946.