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Oral History Interview with Richard Roper, March 17, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Roper. Roper was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1922. He left college in 1941 and joined the United States Marine Corps. Upon completing boot camp he was sent to Parris Island and assigned to heavy artillery of the 5th Defense Battalion. He landed on Funafuti in the Ellice Islands on 2 October 1941. The only contact with the outside world was with a Navy boat that would come from Samoa weekly. He remembers there were tw… more
Date: March 17, 2002
Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Roper, Richard
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Richard Roper, March 17, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Roper. Roper was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1922. He left college in 1941 and joined the United States Marine Corps. Upon completing boot camp he was sent to Parris Island and assigned to heavy artillery of the 5th Defense Battalion. He landed on Funafuti in the Ellice Islands on 2 October 1941. The only contact with the outside world was with a Navy boat that would come from Samoa weekly. He remembers there were tw… more
Date: March 17, 2002
Creator: Roper, Richard
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Bulletin: March 17, 2002]

Description: Church bulletin listing the order of worship for the 7:30 and 11:00 Sunday morning services at the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, as well as various notes about upcoming events, congregational news, and other information of relevance to church members.
Date: March 17, 2002
Creator: Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church (Houston, Tex.)
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center
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