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Oral History Interview with Louise Pearsall Canby, March 17, 1997

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Transcript of an interview with Louise Pearsall Canby, a Navy veteran from Elgin, Illinois, concerning her experiences as a member of the WAVES during World War II. Canby discusses her personal background, her decision to join the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), and her experiences as a code breaker working with Enigma and German submarine codes. Includes appendix that consists of various photographs and two documents, [5] leaves.
Date: March 17, 1997
Creator: Jackson, Sarah C. & Canby, Louise Pearsall
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Raymond F. Higgins, October 25, 1997 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Raymond F. Higgins, October 25, 1997

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Raymond F. Higgins. Higgins joined the Navy in February 1941 as a commissioned officer. He trained with the Marines at Quantico and then with the Medical Corps at Paris Island. He also trained in tropical and aviation medicine and learned to fly N3N's at Pensacola. Higgins was transferred to the U.S. Naval Hospital at Pearl Harbor. He then transferred to islands in the southwest Pacific. He was in Fleet Air Wing 101, a flight patrol squadron based out of Australia. He returned to the United States for leave in 1944. He then is assigned to the USS Ranger (CV-4) and leaves from San Diego to the sea for training. After V-J Day, the Ranger went to New Orleans and then Norfolk. He remained in service until 1947.
Date: October 25, 1997
Creator: Higgins, Raymond F.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History