Oral History Interview with Robert Lowe, August 3, 2016 transcript

Oral History Interview with Robert Lowe, August 3, 2016

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.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Lowe, Robert
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Lowe, August 3, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Lowe, August 3, 2016

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.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Lowe, Robert
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Lawrence, August 3, 2016 transcript

Oral History Interview with William Lawrence, August 3, 2016

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.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Lawrence, William
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Lawrence, August 3, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with William Lawrence, August 3, 2016

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.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Lawrence, William
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History