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Oral History Interview with A. K. Sheffield, May 20, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with A K Sheffield. Sheffield joined the Navy in late 1943. He completed Armed Guard School in San Diego. He served with the Navy Armed Guard aboard a transport ship, and traveled to the Philippine Islands. In May of 1944, Sheffield was aboard the SS Henry Bergh when it ran aground on the Farallon Islands, and shares details of those events. He traveled through the Pacific Islands, to Japan and throughout the Atlantic. Sheffield does … more
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Sheffield, A. K.
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Charles Thorney, November 18, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Thorney. Thorney was in the NROTC at Northwestern University when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He was commissioned in September 1944, a year early, and sent to Florida for training in antisubmarine warfare. He was eventually assigned as the executive officer aboard USS PGM-2, a motorized patrol gunboat, in the Solomon Islands. Thorney recalls operating mostly at night around the Rabaul area interdicting Japanese su… more
Date: November 18, 2016
Creator: Thorney, Charles
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with John Lazarich, May 9, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Lazarich. Lazarich joined the Coast Guard in August 1942 and trained at New York. His first assignment was aboard a patrol boat in New York Harbor. He then went to gunnery school in Florida before shipping out to New Guinea to serve aboard an Amry tug boat. He also participated in the campaign to liberate the Philippines and recalls being in a minefield off Borneo. He also went to Okinawa and eventually Japan before returing… more
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Lazarich, John
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Robert Kenny, July 29, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Kenny. Kenny joined the Army Air Forces in August 1942. He completed airplane mechanic training at Dallas Aviation School in Texas, and gunnery school in Las Vegas, Nevada. Beginning I 1944, Kenny served as a B-17 Flight Engineer with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. They tracked weather in the North Atlantic between North America and Europe, benefitting the European Theater of Operations. Their squadron was coine… more
Date: July 29, 2016
Creator: Kenny, Robert
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Robert Lowe, August 3, 2016

Description: 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 t… more
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Lowe, Robert
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Ralph Crocker, August 12, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ralph Crocker. Crocker joined the Naval Reserve in 1942 at Texas A&M, and was called to active duty in the spring of 1943. He studied civil engineering at Rice University for eight semesters. He then completed Officer Candidate School at Camp Endicott, Davisville, Rhode Island. He served with the Civil Engineer Corps as a Seabee, and worked as an operations officer on Espiritu Santos, New Hebrides. He and the enlisted men he was … more
Date: August 12, 2016
Creator: Crocker, Ralph
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Warren Bateman, September 6, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Warren Bateman. Bateman joined the Navy in October of 1942. He went to Great Lakes, Illinois for boot camp. From there he went to Miami, Florida as Third Class Storekeeper. He was then assigned to the USS PC-1126 that was being built in Bay City, Michigan. In 1943 his crew escorted a convoy from Miami to Panama, then to San Diego where he was transferred to the USS Roberts (DE-749). In January 1944 he went to midshipman’s sc… more
Date: September 6, 2016
Creator: Bateman, Warren
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Charles White, September 8, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles White. White joined the Navy in June, 1945 and went to Great Lakes for basic training. He caught his ship, the USS Pawnee (ATF-74) at Okinawa in August, 1945 and began pulling ships off the beach after a typhoon. They also tugged barges around Japan for a few weeks after the surrender, the Philippines, too. White returned to the US and was discharged in August, 1946.
Date: September 8, 2016
Creator: White, Charles
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with James Imlay, June 16, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Imlay. Imlay’s sister, Barbara Burton, relays information about the World War II service of her brother, James Imlay. Imlay was in the Navy aboard the USS Pope (DD-225), which was sunk off Borneo in March 1942, and was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for the duration of the war in the Pacific. A commendation letter for Pope crew members is read into the record.
Date: June 16, 2016
Creator: Imlay, James
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Fred Heyer, September 21, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Fred Heyer. Heyer joined the Navy in March 1945. He went to Great Lakes in Chicago for boot camp. He provides detail of his boot camp experience. From there he went to the U.S. Navy Receiving Station in Seattle where he received and dispatched Army personnel. He then served aboard the USS Clamour (AM-160) beginning October 1945. They were working to put the ship out of commission. His work aboard the ship was clerical, offic… more
Date: September 21, 2016
Creator: Heyer, Fred
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Richard Werner, September 23, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard E. Werner. Werner joined the Army in September of 1942. He served in the Medical Detachment with the 1106th Engineer Combat Battalion, 7th Army. They were transferred to England, and participated in infantry combat and built pontoon bridges during the Normandy invasion and traveled as far as the Rhine River when Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945. Werner served with the occupation in Germany and returned to the US in Novem… more
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Werner, Richard
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with William Meriwether, July 27, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Meriwether. Meriwether was studying to become a doctor when he entered the Army Medical Corps in December, 1942. He continued training as a doctor and was discharged in 1946. He was recalled and commissioned in 1952 and spent one year in Korea as a pathologist with the 48th MASH unit and studied the cause of serious infectious diseases along the DMZ. Meriwether relates details of his career in Army medicine.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Meriwether, William
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Allen Cates, November 23, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Allen Cates. Cates joined the Army in 1944. He completed basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas, and paratrooper training off Dog Island, Florida. In December he deployed to New Guinea and served with the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division. In mid-February 1945, they landed on Corregidor to liberate the island from occupying Japanese forces. From there he was assigned as a combat engineer with the 11th, work… more
Date: November 23, 2016
Creator: Cates, Allen
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Dorothy Martens, October 21, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dorothy Martens. Martens graduated from Valparaiso University in Indiana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing in 1944. She entered the Army Nurse Corps in December. She completed basic training at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. From there she moved to Fort Jackson, South Carolina for orientation, where she taught the other nurses about the workings of a B-29. She was in the 309th General Hospital Unit. In May of 1945 their u… more
Date: October 21, 2016
Creator: Martens, Dorothy
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Jackie Haworth, November 3, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jackie Haworth. Haworth entered the Navy March 1944. He went to Faragut, Idaho for boot camp. From there he went on to California, Hawaii and then to the South Pacific and boarded the USS Boston (CA-69). He was in the black gang on the Boston working in the aft engine room serving as a fireman, first class. Later, he became a machinist mate, first class. He was part of the Battle of the Philippine Sea in 1944. He provides de… more
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Haworth, Jackie
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Walter Wier, November 4, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Walter Wier. Wier joined the Navy in June, 1942 and trained at San Diego. With training complete, Wier was assigned to the Armed Guard and board the SS Day Star (1939) in San Francisco. Wier’s son provides a chronology of Wier’s first cruise in the Pacific starting in early 1943. After one voyage aboard the Day Star, he was transferred to the Young America. His third voyage was aboard the William H Moody. Wier sailed in the … more
Date: November 4, 2016
Creator: Wier, Walter
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Charles William Wiley, November 11, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles William Wiley. Wiley joined the Navy in 1944. He completed basic training in Samson, New York, and worked in Naval Intelligence at an airfield in Anacostia, near Washington DC. He helped make propaganda and training films, and worked security on the base. In early 1945, he was assigned to USS LST-950 in the Pacific and participated in the assault and occupation of Okinawa. From September through early November, they perfo… more
Date: November 11, 2016
Creator: Wiley, Charles William
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Robert Pratt, August 17, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Pratt. Pratt joined the Navy while in college and was finally called to active duty in July 1943. Then he went to midshipman school at Northwestern University, finishing in May 1944 with a commission. His first assignment was to USS LST-781, being assembled in Pittsburgh. Pratt tells several stories about being aboard USS LST-781 and going down the Mississippi River, through the Panama Canal and through several islands in … more
Date: August 17, 2016
Creator: Pratt, Robert
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Robert J. Gettelfinger, September 18, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert J Gettelfinger. Gettelfinger joined the Army Air Forces in June of 1942. He completed Cadet School in San Antonio. He served as a C-46 pilot and was deployed to Chabua, India in 1943. He recalls flying the Hump, transporting fuel, munitions and supervisory staff to Kunming, China. Gettelfinger also completed missions to Burma. He returned to the US in November of 1944 and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He continu… more
Date: September 18, 2016
Creator: Gettelfinger, Robert J
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with George Halfin, November 23, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George S. Halfin. Halfin joined the Army in early 1942. He studied geodetic computing at the University of Kentucky, then joined the 910th Engineers Air Force Headquarters Company. They were sent to Colorado Springs, and worked on drafting plans to extend runways in the U.S. to handle military planes. Through 1943, Halfin traveled to around 45 states in the U.S., analyzing runways. They would clock the amount and distance it took… more
Date: November 23, 2016
Creator: Halfin, George
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Floyd Schexnayder, December 17, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Floyd John Schexnayder. Schexnayder was born in 1928. At the age of 16, he changed his birth certificate in order to join the Navy in mid-1944. He completed boot camp in San Diego, California. Beginning around February of 1945, he served as Seaman Second-Class in the gunnery department aboard the USS Terror (CM-5), loading 40mm quadruple antiaircraft guns. They transferred battle casualties to an Army hospital at Saipan, then tra… more
Date: December 17, 2016
Creator: Schexnayder, Floyd
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with William Lozano, November 17, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Lozano. Lozano joined the Navy in January 1944 and trained at San Diego. From there he also attended radar school at Point Loma before reporting aboard the USS Washington (BB-56). He shares several anecdotes and provides much detail of his life aboard ship during WWII. He was discharged in May 1946.
Date: November 17, 2016
Creator: Lozano, William
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with William Riggs, November 18, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Riggs. Riggs joined the Navy in March 1943 and trained at San Diego. He was then assigned as a parachute rigger in Torpedo Squadron 40 (VT-40) aboard the USS Suwannee (ACV-27) in February, 1945. He was aboard when the Suwannee participated in the Okinawa invasion. After the war, Riggs stayed in the Active Reserves until 1985, retiring as a master chief.
Date: November 18, 2016
Creator: Riggs, William
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with James Kirk, November 29, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Kirk. Kirk joined the Army Air Forces in March 1943 and trained in radio operation and aerial gunnery. When he got overseas, he was assigned to the 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group in Italy as a gunner. In January, 1945, on his 27th combat mission, Kirk’s B-17 was shot down and he managed to bail out over Hungary. Kirk was captured and made a prisoner of war. After a month in solitary confinement in Hungary, he was moved … more
Date: November 29, 2016
Creator: Kirk, James
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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