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Oral History Interview with Bill McClellan, September 17, 2005
Transcript of an oral interview with Bill McClellan. He joined the Marine Corps in 1944 where he had training at Parris Island, Camp Lejeune and Camp pendleton before shipping out and joining his unit on Guadalcanal. On their way to Okinawa, the unit stopped off at Mog Mog for a beer bust. McClellan was among the first marines to land on Okinawa. After securing the northern portion of the island, his unit moved south. He was detached and spent 10 days assisting the Graves Registration commander in digging graves. A leiutenant from his company rescued him from this duty and sent him back to the rest of his company on the line. From Okinawa, McClellan went to Guam with his unit, then Yokosuka after the surrender. He spent over a year in Japan before being discharged in Corpus Christi, Texas in February, 1947. In 1950, he was called up for duty in Korea.
Date:
September 17, 2005
Creator:
McClellan, Bill
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Louis G. Lacy, September 17, 2005
Transcript of an oral interview with Lieutenant Commander Louis G. Lacy. Lacy enlisted in the Navy in July, 1941 after he graduated from Texas Christian University. He received orders to report to officer training school in Chicago shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. After getting commissioned, Lacy went to Naval Mine Warfare School in Virginia for more training. From there, Lacy was assigned to the USS Adroit (AM-82) briefly. After that, he was assigned to the USS Starling (AM-64). Before long, he was assigned back to Virginia for more mine warfare training. Then he was ordered to report aboard the Starling, which he did at New Caledonia. From there, the Starling provided minsweeping duties for convoys in and around the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Lacy then describes being present for the invasion of Guam. From there, the Starling went back to California for some overhaul work before heading back out, this time for the invasion of Okinawa. Lacy was serving as the ship's Executive Officer at this point. Their duty was to sweep for mines prior to the invasion. Lacy also speaks of being attacked by kamikaze planes off Okinawa. In November, 1945, Lacy rotated home and was …
Date:
September 17, 2005
Creator:
Lacy, Louis G.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Harold Sims, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Harold Sims. Sims was born in Sanger, Texas on 15 August 1921. He quit school and joined the US Marine Corps in September 1940. After completing boot training at Camp Pendleton, California he was sent to Iceland. After eight months, he returned to San Diego. Soon after his arrival he was among fourteen Marines selected for duty on American Samoa. After sixteen months, they were sent to Pearl Harbor for four months of training. As Sims had contracted elephantiasis while in Samoa, he was put into a hospital in San Francisco. Upon recovering he was sent to the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas where he performed guard duty for four months. He went to Guam for a short time, was involved in limited action on Eniwetok and was sent to China following the surrender of Japan. He was discharged in 1946.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Sims, Harold C.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Edmund K. Austin, September 17, 2005
Transcript of an oral interview with Edmund K. Austin. Austin was drafted his junior year in high school (1943) and sent to Camp Greely in Oklahoma for basic training. From there he was sent to the Pacific and went into a heavy artillery unit (155 mm Long Tom outfit) that had been based on Christmas Island at the beginning of the war. Got bad jungle rot in the Philippines. After the Philippine operation (near the end of Luzon), his unit (532nd Field Artillery Battalion) was sent to Okinawa aboard a LST. They landed on Shishi Jima (small island off Naha) a day or so before the big invasion of Okinawa proper. Witnessed kamikaze attacks a saw several Navy ships hit. Japanese tried to invade Shishi Jima but they were not successful. Had a shell land in his gun pit but it was a dud. Later in the operation his unit was loaded on a barge and taken over to Okinawa, somewhere around Naha. Did lots of firing supporting the Army and Marines because their guns had the range. Operated for a while in the rain and mud. Assigned to a USO unit when the war was over. Austin was a …
Date:
September 17, 2005
Creator:
Austin, Edmund K.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Karl E. Momsen, September 17, 2005
Transcript of an oral interview with Karl E. Momsen. Momsen joined the Marine Corps and trained at Parris Island, South Carolina before reporting to Camp Pendleton. He sailed to Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Arenac (APA-128), then Guam in preparation for the invasion of Okinawa. Momsen carried the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) in his squad. He landed on Okinawa in the second wave on 1 April 1945. Momsen briefly describes being wounded in action.
Date:
September 17, 2005
Creator:
Momsen, Karl E.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Goss, September 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Goss. Goss joined the Marine Corps in April of 1943. He joined the Marine Raiders, training in boat landings and as a mortar man. He traveled to New Caledonia and Guam, and participated in the invasion of Saipan in June of 1944. He shares a number of anecdotal stories about general life in the service. He was discharged in December of 1945.
Date:
September 17, 2005
Creator:
Goss, Richard
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Marvin Russell, May 17, 2005
Transcript of an oral interview with Marvin Russell. Russell, who graduated with a petroleum engineering degree from the University of Houston, describes his role in the testing of fuel used in the Pacific and in North Africa during the war. He discusses the homefront, including the politics of war, rationing, the Japanese American internment, the use of the atomic bomb, and the reaction to the end of the war. There is also a brief comparison of World War II and the Iraq War. After the war, Russell was employed in the automotive industry. Additionally, Russell identifies his parents and siblings and mentions his brothers’ role as civilians involved in troop transport.
Date:
May 17, 2005
Creator:
Russell, Marvin
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Scott West, May 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Scott West. West joined the Navy in 1935. He was assigned to the USS Lexington (CV-2) for four years. In September of 1942 he served aboard the USS Copahee (CVE-12). He describes the planes aboard and the process of getting all the aviation equipment aboard the carrier. They traveled to New Caledonia to deliver planes, as well as to Munda, in the Solomon Islands. He completed catapult and arresting gear school at the Naval Air Station in Philadelphia, and then served as an instructor. Later, he took crews out to supervise new installations and repair battle damage.
Date:
May 17, 2005
Creator:
West, Scott
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Hogan, September 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Hogan. Hogan was drafted into the Army in February of 1943. He was assigned to the 87th Infantry Division. They traveled to Camp Petipool, England. His job was with the 90mm anti-tank gun. In November of 1944 they landed in Le Havre, France. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge. They were located in St. Vith, Belgium. He describes their living conditions and how they kept warm during a bitterly cold European winter. After the Bulge they advanced troops across the Rhine River. By May of 1945 they were in Villmar, Germany, after cracking the Siegfried Line. He provides some details of that experience. They convoyed to Camp Lucky Strike located a few miles from St. Valery, France. He was discharged in late 1945.
Date:
September 17, 2005
Creator:
Hogan, John
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Harker, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Harker. Harker entered the Navy with a direct commission in July 1944. Upon arriving at Pearl harbor, he assumed duties as the engineering officer aboard USS LCI(G)-474, going aboard in November. When Harker’s LCI went close to shore to support the underwater demolition teams prior to the landing at Iwo Jima, his ship was shot up by shore batteries and had to retire from the line. After everyone transferred to a destroyer, the 474 rolled over and sank. Harker was transferred to USS LCI(G)-449 and travelled back to Saipan. Before the war ended, Harker was assigned to LST-226. He shares a few anecdotes about being aboard it. He was recalled for the Korean War.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Harker, Robert
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Glenn G. Morgan, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Glenn G. Morgan. He was a bugler aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) and discusses a kamikaze attack during the Okinawa campaign, carrying a crate to Tinian that contained the first atomic bomb, the ship's sinking, and the four days/five nights he spent in a life raft waiting to be rescued.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Morgan, Glenn G.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arthur Burry, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Arthur Burry. Burry was born in Rocky Ford, Colorado 28 March 1924. He was inducted into the Army Air Forces in January 1943 and received flight training at various bases. After completing gunnery school, he was assigned to the 45th Fighter Squadron, which flew P-47 fighter planes. Traveling by merchant ship, Burry arrived at Iwo Jima in February 1945. He relates an incident where the Japanese made a banzai attack on the air field resulting in several pilots of the 15th Fighter Group being killed. He describes being on a strafing mission to Japan when his plane suffered engine failure and he bailed out. He tells of tying himself to his rubber dingy and surviving a typhoon. On his sixth day at sea he was picked up by the crew of the submarine USS Trutta (SS-421). He was transferred to the USS Peto (SS-265) and taken to Guam. After going to Hawaii for R & R he returned to Iwo Jima and received orders to return to the United States. He was discharged in September 1945.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Burry, Arthur
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with June Brandenberger, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with June Brandenberger. Brandenberger finished high school in 1943 and was married later I n1944 to an officer in the Army Air Forces. She worked for a telephone company in San Antonio during the war. Brandenberger shares what it was like to be married with a small child and a husband overseas toward the end of the war. She describes his homecoming and what life was like after the war ended.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Brandenberger, June
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Deward Terry, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Deward Terry. Terry was born in Bristol, Missouri in 1925. After graduating from high school, he attended business school for six months at Southeast Missouri College. He joined the Marine Corps in August 1943 and underwent boot training at San Diego. Upon graduating, he went to Camp Pendleton, where he joined the 5th Marine Division and attended the Communications School. He then went to Camp Tarawa, Hawaii for training with a forward observation team with the artillery. He recalls landing at Red Beach on Iwo Jima and being unable to move for four days due to heavy mortar and artillery fire from the Japanese defenders. He had a close encounter with a Japanese soldier and recalls the death of a close friend. After the surrender of Japan, Terry’s unit went to Japan where they performed guard duties for six months before returning to the United States. Upon his return, Terry was discharged.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Terry, Deward
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Dyches, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Dyches. Dyches joined the Marine Corps in 1943. After boot training, he was assigned to the 4th Marine Division. He landed at Iwo Jima and served as a BAR man carrying the Browning Automatic Rifle. He landed on the first day of the invasion and was wounded and evacuated on the fifth day. His wounds kept in various hospitals for over a year. He was discharged in August, 1946.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Dyches, Robert
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charlie Adams, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charlie Adams. Adams enlisted in the Marine Corps in March, 1943 and after training was assigned to the Fifth Marine Division. He landed late on the first day of the invasion of Iwo Jima. He remained there for 36 days. He served as a radio operator and describes much of the combat conditions he encountered on the island as well as some of the Japanese tactics. He was one of 13 of his original company of 248 men to walk off Iwo Jima unhurt. Adams also describes some of his experiences in Nagasaki, Japan during the occupation. He returned to the US and was discharged in March, 1946.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Adams, Charlie
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Bowell, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Bowell. Bowell entered service in the Navy in February 1942 and trained as a signalman and on sonar. In February, 1944 he was assigned to USS Defense (AM-317). Bowell speaks about the relationships he developed aboard ship. He also mentions minesweeping and kamikaze attacks off Okinawa and talks about fire support for the Marines on Iwo Jima. Bowell also recalls going into the water to rescue men from other vessels. When the war ended, Bowell’s ship swept mines off Japan. He remembers a typhoon off Okinawa and being discharged in December, 1945.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Bowell, James
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Marcus Worde, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral history with Marcus Worde. Worde enlisted in the Army Air Corps in September, 1941. He was in flight school at Uvalde, Texas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He trained in B-17s, B-24s and B-29s. He served as a flight instructor for B-24s. When, Worde went overseas, he was assigned to the 421st Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group on Tinian. From there, Worde flew combat missions over Japan in a B-29 until he was shot down in May, 1945 and became a prisoner of war. Worde describes his experiences as a Japanese POW and the treatment he endured until the war ended.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Worde, Marcus
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Cull W. 'Bud' Forbus, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Cull W. ?Bud? Forbus. Born in 1924, he joined the Marine Corps in June 1942. He was transported on the USS George F. Elliott (AP-105) to Noumea, New Caledonia in December 1943. He was a Browning Automatic Rifleman in the 3rd Marine Division, 34th Replacement Battalion. He discusses the formation of the 3rd Marine Division and the division colors. He recounts waiting for the 77th Infantry Division to arrive prior to the invasion of Guam. He describes being injured at night by a knife-wielding Japanese soldier as well as his evacuation and medical care. When he recovered from his wounds, he was assigned to the 81st Mortar Section of the 4th Marine Division. He describes the landings on Guam using an LVT (Landing Vehicle, Tracked) and on Iwo Jima using an LST (Landing Ship, Tank). He discusses battleship artillery support at Iwo Jima, the landing at Boat Basin, and the Japanese bunkers and tunnels. He describes being injured on Iwo Jima, his evacuation, and medical treatment. After his recovery, he was assigned to guard duty at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington. He was discharged in …
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Forbus, Cull W. 'Bud'
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Blanchard, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Blanchard. Blanchard joined the Navy in February, 1943. His first assignment after boot camp was in an office at the Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Air Station. In early 1945, Blanchard reported aboard USS Franklin (CV-13). Blanchard was aboard USS Franklin (CV-13) when she was hit by Japanese bombs. He was below decks during the attack, suffered from smoke inhalation and was eventually transferred to USS Santa Fe (CL-60). Blanchard returned to the Franklin at Ulithi and went with it to Brooklyn. He was discharged in February 1946.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Blanchard, Robert C.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Norman DeReese, January 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Norman DeReese. DeReese joined the Army in January 1942. He was assigned to the 18th Field Artillery and served in the headquarters battalion in communications. He went with his unit to England in early 1943 for further training prior to the Normandy invasion. He landed at Normandy in early July. DeReese's unit was unattached to any larger unit. Instead, his artillery brigade was attached temporarily to several different units throughout the campaign in Western Europe. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge. When the war ended, DeReese was shipped home and was discharged in November, 1945.
Date:
January 17, 2005
Creator:
DeReese, Norman W.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Howard Brandenburge, February 17, 2005
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Howard R. Brandenburge. In January 1942 he transferred into the Army Air Force and began basic training at Shepherd Field and finished at Foster Field, graduating in February 1944. He received his wings and commission. He went to California and flew P38s, P39s, P40s and P51s. He loaded the P51s onto a small carrier in Pearl Harbor and moved to Tinian Island in March 1945. After Iwo Jima was secured they flew there to serve as escorts between the islands in their P51s. He discusses his experiences with Japanese bonsai raids, flying missions over Japan, escorting B29s, shooting at Japanese fighters and unfortunate casualties of planes and crew. His first mission as escort began April 1945, and he completed 26 missions overall. After he was discharged he had to stay in the reserves and completed a tour in the Korean War. He joined the reserves unit in San Antonio at Kelly Air Force Base, flying transports: C-46s, C-119s and C-124s.
Date:
February 17, 2005
Creator:
Brandenburge, Howard R.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lewis Hoelscher, June 17, 2005
Transcript of an oral interview with Lewis A. Hoelscher. He went into the Army in December, 1942 before finishing high schooland started basic training at Fort Sam Houston. Before completing basic, he was shipped to Colorado to continue training. He was attached to Company B, 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division. Then, Hoelscher went to San Diego for amphibious training before shipping to Kiska, Alaska. He relates experiences on Kiska before discussing more training and heading for Italy. Hoelscher then describes heavy fighting in the mountains in Italy. He earned a Silver Star in Itlay. His division was slated to participate in the invasion of Japan, but the war ended and Hoelscher was discharged in November, 1945.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Hoelscher, Lewis A.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clarence and Delia Wood, June 17, 2005
Transcript of a simultaneous oral interview with Clarence and Delia Wood. Delia reveals she worked for North American Aviation in Inglewood, Claifornia building P-51 fighter planes. She met Clarence Wood at a USO show. Mr. Wood served on a submarine chaser (SC-1012) and an APA during the war.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Wood, Clarence
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History