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The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 127, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 5, 2011
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 126, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 4, 2011
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 125, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 2, 2011
Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 2, 2011
Creator:
Bush, Michael
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Norman Kleiss, October 28, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Norman Kleiss. Kleiss graduated from the Naval Academy in 1938 and became a dive-bomber pilot. He describes how he earned his nickname, Dusty, by making an uninvited landing at Ewa Field and causing a large dust cloud that disrupted Marine Corps flight operations. Kleiss discusses his training and early career as an aviator. He describes early tactics that naval aviators used and how they evolved under the direction of Admiral Halsey. Kleiss describes in detail his experiences while attached to USS Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Midway. He discusses some of his involvement with Operation Paperclip at the end of the war. Kleiss retired from the military in March of 1962.
Date:
October 28, 2011
Creator:
Kleiss, Norman
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Bennett Lee, October 28, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Bennett Lee. Lee joined the Army Air Forces soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He discusses the training he received to become a fighter pilot. Lee was sent to England in October 1944 to fly P-51s. He completed 52 missions over Europe with the 79th Fighter Squadron. Lee describes what it was like to fly a P-51 and details some of the highlights his of missions. He details one mission in which he encountered German ME-262 jet fighters and discusses how one of his fellow airmen destroyed eight planes. Lee mentions seeing the last performance of Glenn Miller. He left the service in December 1945.
Date:
October 28, 2011
Creator:
Lee, John
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lloyd D. Handschy, October 14, 2011
Transcript of an oral interview with Lloyd Dane Handschy. Handschy went to high school and college with John Glenn in New Concord, Ohio. They learned to fly together. Handschy joined the Marine Corps and went to pilot training at Pensacola. When he finished there, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and continued training in single engine aircraft. When he went overseas in 1943, he was assigned to VMF-213 and they went to the Solomon Islands. He describes aerial combat versus Japanese pilots. After the war, Handschy stayed i nthe Reserves and was called back for the Korean War, where he flew observation planes spotting for artillery units. On several occasions, Mrs. Handschy provides a lot of details. Handschy recalls flying Jack Benny, the entertainer, around so Benny could see the front lines.
Date:
October 14, 2011
Creator:
Handschy, Lloyd Dane
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Claire Krizoy, October 25, 2011
Transcript of an oral interview with Claire Krizoy. Krizoy discusses her time in the Marine Corp Women's Reserve where she did secretarial work at Cherry Point, NC and Milledgeville, GA for aviation units stations on bases in each place.
Date:
October 25, 2011
Creator:
Krizoy, Claire
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ernest S. Clifford, October 19, 2011
Transcript of an oral interview with Ernest S. Clifford. Clifford enlisted in the Army Air Force in late 1942. For training, he went to Miami, South Dakota and Virginia. There, he was attached to the 45th Infantry Division to facilitate radio communications between the Air Force and the infantry. They sailed for North Africa to train for the invasion of Sicily. Clifford describes his experience on Sicily and was evacuated with several hundred Italian POWs back to North Africa, where he was reassigned to a photo reconnaissance company based in southern Italy. His job was to send coded messages from the photo lab to th eair bases where bomb groups would decide which targets to hit. When the war in Europe ended, Clifford went home on leave and was there when the war in the Pacific ended. He was discharged in September, 1945.
Date:
October 19, 2011
Creator:
Clifford, Ernest S.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Evan Riley, October 26, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Evan Riley. Riley was born in Nashville, Tennessee 5 September 1921. At a very young age, he and his four siblings were placed into an orphanage and he tells of growing up during the Depression. Joining the US Army in 1942, he was selected to attend Officer Candidate School and graduated as a second lieutenant in 1943. He then received training in the tank corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky. After spending several months at Camp Cooke, California, he requested a transfer to an Airborne unit. He was accepted and sent to Fort Benning, Georgia where he transferred from being a tank officer to being an infantry officer. Upon completing his paratroop training he joined the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 11th Airborne Division on Luzon in June 1945. The unit was on Okinawa preparing for the invasion of Japan when Japan surrendered. On 28 August 1945 the unit landed at Atsugi, Japan as a part of the Occupation forces. He was then sent to Sendai where he served for nine months before returning to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Following the end of World War II, Riley remained …
Date:
October 26, 2011
Creator:
Riley, Evan
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Royal A. Wetzel, October 20, 2011
Transcript of an oral interview with Royal Arlington Wetzel. Wetzel joined the Navy in July, 1943 before finishing high school. After training, he shipped out to New Caledonia where he was assigned to the USS LCI-70. Wetzel served as the ship's cook and he shares various experiences he had aboard the 70.
Date:
October 20, 2011
Creator:
Wetzel, Royal A.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frederick Waigand, October 15, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Frederick Waigand. Waigand joined the Marine Corps just after the attack on Pearl Harbor and received basic training at Parris Island. Upon completion of mechanic training, he became a plane captain and was assigned to VMO-155. After serving on Midway, he transferred to VMF-311 as the executive officer’s crew chief for the invasion of Okinawa. There he shot a Japanese soldier who charged him in a banzai attack springing from an enemy bomber that crash-landed near the flight line. After the island was secured, Waigand oversaw Okinawan work crews, noting that the natives were incredibly jovial. When it came time for his return to the States, he transferred ships after the first one was struck by a kamikaze. Waigand remained in the Marine Corps into the 1950s and retired as a master sergeant.
Date:
October 15, 2011
Creator:
Waigand, Frederick
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Swartz, October 14, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Swartz. Swartz joined the Army Air Forces in April 1945 and received basic training at Sheppard Field. He was discharged as an aviation cadet after the war ended and embarked on a civilian career in various technologies, including television, radio, and broadcast equipment. After working as a ground radio operator for American Airlines, he enlisted in the Air Force and graduated as a pilot in September 1949. He was on patrol in Korea on 25 June 1950, when he noticed the mass evacuation of Gimpo. The next day, he began flying close air support missions, with no prior combat training, ultimately flying a total of 141 missions. In 1953 he was stationed in Greenland as part of the first operational fighter squadron north of the Arctic Circle. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was in Germany on high alert, his F-100 equipped with a nuclear weapon and assigned a target. In Vietnam, he led the first successful missions locating and destroying surface-to-air missile (SAM) bases. Swartz returned to the States as an F-100 instructor and retired in 1968.
Date:
October 14, 2011
Creator:
Swartz, Robert
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Matthew Lynch, October 27, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Matthew Lynch. Lynch joined the Navy in September of 1942. He completed advanced electric hydraulic school, concentrating primarily on the 5"/38 caliber gun. Beginning June of 1943, he served as Third-Class Gunner’s Mate aboard USS Conner (DD-582). Lynch participated in the invasion of the Gilbert Islands, a pre-invasion attack on the Marshall Islands, the Mariana Islands Campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He returned to the US and was discharged in February of 1946.
Date:
October 27, 2011
Creator:
Lynch, Matthew
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John P. Boswell, October 11, 2011
Transcript of an oral interview with John P. "J.P." Boswell. When Boswell finished high school in 1942, he went to work in a machine shop to help pay for college. He went to Notre Dame, where he joined the US Marine Corps in June, 1943. Boswell describes riding the train from his home to Parris Island, the drill instructors there and the training regimen. When he finished boot camp, Boswell was assigned to Drill Instructor School. Before long, Boswell went to Sea School and reported shortly thereafter to the USS Bennington (CV-20) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He served as an anti-aircraft gunner aboard the ship. Boswell shares many anecdotes about life aboard ship: going through the Panama Canal, liberty on Mog Mog, the harbor at Ulithi, etc. Eventually, Boswell was assigned to shore duty. He rode a breeches bouy to a destroyer and then was delivered to Guam. There, he was assigned to the unit of Marines that served as Admiral Nimitz's bodyguards. Boswell was with Admiral Nimitz aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) for the Japanese surrender.
Date:
October 11, 2011
Creator:
Boswell, John P.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Graef, October 15, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Graef. Graef joined the Marine Corps in 1942 and was called to active duty in July 1943. He received basic training in San Diego and was served as an MP attached to various divisions. He landed at Saipan in the third wave, wading ashore under enemy fire, the sharp coral cutting his boots away. He later sustained a concussion during a kamikaze attack, and much of his memory as to the details of his service were clouded as a result. He recalls detaining an Army general who disobeyed orders to advance. At Okinawa, he witnessed the mass suicide of natives. After serving in China with the 3rd Marine Regiment, Graef returned home and was discharged in January 1946. When he visited his best friend's parents to tell them that their son had been killed in action, they were overcome with grief and lashed out in anger. Graef himself was traumatized by the war and experienced lasting PTSD.
Date:
October 15, 2011
Creator:
Graef, Robert
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Kenneth Niles, October 15, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Kenneth Niles. Niles joined the Marine Corps in 1942 and received basic training in San Diego. He received radio operator and repairman training at Texas A&M. Upon completion, he was assigned to VMF-155, working on the F4U Corsair. At Midway he serviced John Glenn’s plane but didn’t meet him until years later at reunions. Niles served at the Marshall Islands and gathered rainwater off his tent for showers. Seabees fashioned a spear for Niles so that he could hunt fish to be cooked in the galley. He returned to the States and was awaiting further assignment when the war ended. Niles later served in Korea and retired from the Marine Corps in 1963.
Date:
October 15, 2011
Creator:
Niles, Kenneth
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Neil O’Keefe, October 14, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with J N O’Keefe. O’Keefe joined the Army Air Forcess in early 1942 and received basic training at Keesler Field. He graduated as a pilot in November 1942 and was stationed at a replacement training detachment when the war ended. He was sent to Japan in 1948, flying P-51s out of Itazuke. While there, he flew over Hiroshima and Nagasaki to see the remnants of the atomic blast. In April 1950 he flew ground support missions in Korea. He returned to the States in December 1950 and received atomic bombardment training at Shaw Field and Langley Field. O’Keefe returned home and was discharged in 1954.
Date:
October 14, 2011
Creator:
O'Keefe, Neil
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Potter, October 15, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Potter. Potter joined the Marine Corps in August 1942 and received basic training in San Diego. Upon completion, he was assigned to VMF-124 and sent to Guadalcanal. His duty was to replenish oxygen in the cockpits of the F4U-1 Corsairs. The island was mostly secured by the time he arrived in February 1943, but there were still snipers in the trees, and Potter saw Japanese POWs being marched to secured areas. He remembers intense rain, mud, and mosquitoes on the island. When the Seabees arrived, conditions improved, and they shared their freshly baked bread with the Marines, who didn’t have comparable rations. He returned to the States and worked in supplies at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. During the Korean War, he was stationed in Japan, coordinating supplies sent to Korea. He left the Marine Corps in 1956 and managed manufacturing services for a steel company. There he cultivated strong relationships with distributors and ultimately opened his own trucking company to serve their needs. Potter retired in 2009.
Date:
October 15, 2011
Creator:
Potter, Robert
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Hugh Shoults, October 14, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Hugh Shoults. Shoults joined the Army Air Forces in March 1944 and received basic training in Amarillo. Upon completion of radar maintenance school, he trained radar navigators and bombardiers for the invasion of Japan. After the war ended, he worked on the flight line, maintaining radios, until his discharge in June 1946. He was called to active duty during the Korean War as a maintenance officer at Fairchild. In 1951 he began pilot training, and from 1954 to 1957 he flew F-84s in Japan. He was then assigned to a parachute test facility in El Centro. Shoults served in Vietnam as an Air Force liaison officer to the 9th Infantry Division. He returned home in December 1967 and became a missile project supervisor at Vandenberg. He went on to earn a master’s degree in aerospace operations management and retired from the Air Force in June 1972.
Date:
October 14, 2011
Creator:
Shoults, Hugh
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Glenn Hope, October 14, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Glenn Hope. Hope joined the Army Air Forces in 1941 and received flight training in Texas and Oklahoma in PT-19s and AT-6s. Upon completion, he was assigned to a P-40 squadron on Oahu. He was transferred to Port Moresby with the 80th Fighter Squadron, flying P-39s. The only advantage they had over Zeros was horsepower, so when Hope later became a flight instructor he taught pilots evasive maneuvers consisting of shallow dives and shallow climbs. His squadron received new P-38s, which Hope once pushed to 550 miles per hour while being pursued by a Zero. He shot down three Japanese planes in aerial combat, and is credited with one victory, which was confirmed by troops on the ground. He was sent back to the States to train pilots, producing triple-ace Robin Olds.
Date:
October 14, 2011
Creator:
Hope, Glenn
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jim Davenport, October 14, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jim Davenport. Davenport was born 3 March 1925 in San Antonio, Texas. Graduating from high school in 1942, he joined the US Army Air Forces in September 1943 and received his basic training at Amarillo, Texas. After basic training he was sent to Iowa State Teacher College for three months to improve his skills in mathematics and sciences in preparation for entry into the Cadet program. Upon completion of pre-flight training at Santa Anna, California he elected to enter navigator school at Ellington Field in Baytown, Texas. Upon graduation he was sent to Lincoln, Nebraska and assigned to a B-24 crew as navigator. Davenport went to Mountain Home, Idaho for crew training and described observing a devastating crash of a B-24. Soon thereafter, he volunteered for an experimental pilot’s class and was selected to be sent to Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas for fighter plane training and advanced P-51 training at Williams Field, Arizona. Upon completion of P-51 training he was assigned to the 307th Fighter Squadron stationed at Turner Field, Albany, Georgia. He describes in detail a near fatal incident which occurred while practicing aerobatics. …
Date:
October 14, 2011
Creator:
Davenport, Jim
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jerry Mason, October 14, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jerry Mason. Mason joined the Army Air Forces in December 1942 and received basic training in Lincoln, Nebraska. He played reveille during training, which helped distinguish him from the other recruits and secure him a spot in fighter pilot training. After learning to fly the P-38 and P-39, he was sent to New Guinea and the Philippines, where he flew as Cy Homer’s wingman in the 80th Fighter Squadron, the Headhunters. He was shot down over Formosa and narrowly escaped drowning by deploying his inflatable raft, which was tied to his belt and pulled him to the surface. The next morning, he was rescued by a PBM Mariner. When the war ended, Mason served as an engineering officer in Manila, where he was ordered to set fire to L-1s once they were replaced with L-5s. Mason returned home and attended veterinarian school on the GI Bill; he went on to become base veterinarian at Elmendorf.
Date:
October 14, 2011
Creator:
Mason, Jerry
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clarence Wolgemuth, October 14, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clarence Wolgemuth. Wolgemuth joined the Army Air Forces in September 1942 and received basic training at Fort Meade. He received flight training in California and Arizona. He was sent to Port Moresby in April 1944 and crash landed in a jungle while on a training mission there. Natives took him in until he was rescued by his unit four days later. While there, he contracted malaria, experiencing his first symptoms several months later. Upon completion of his training, he was assigned to the 80th Fighter Squadron. He participated in 108 combat missions throughout the Pacific, both escorting B-17s and dropping bombs out of his P-38. On the night of 26 December 1944, Wolgemuth was one of 70 pilots sent on an impromptu strafing mission after a Japanese naval force was sighted off Mindoro. During the Battle of Manila, he dropped napalm to drive the Japanese out of the mountains. By the end of the war he had a total of 650 flying hours. His longest flight was over 8 hours, which was made possible after Charles Lindbergh came and gave demonstrations on maximizing the range of the P-38. …
Date:
October 14, 2011
Creator:
Wolgemuth, Clarence
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eugene Dillon, October 8, 2011
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Eugene (Curt) Dillon. Dillon was born 19 October 1924 in Wayne Township, Tennessee. He graduated from high school in 1942 and joined the US Navy. Following boot camp at the Great Lakes Training Station he was assigned to study meteorology. Upon completion of his training he was assigned to the USS Bennington (CV-20) prior to the ships commissioning in August 1944. He volunteered to fly on weather reconnaissance planes to collect weather information prior to air strikes being launched. He describes kamikaze attacks during the invasion of Okinawa and of participating in the weather forecasting procedure prior to the launching of planes involved in the attack and sinking of HIJMS Yamato.
Date:
October 8, 2011
Creator:
Dillon, Eugene
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History