Oral History Interview with Glenn Cleland, August 28, 2001 Metadata

Title

• Main Title Oral History Interview with Glenn Cleland, August 28, 2001

Creator

• Interviewee: Cleland, Glenn
  Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

• Interviewer: Misenhimer, Richard
  Contributor Type: Personal
• Interviewer: Clinger, Melinda
  Contributor Type: Personal
• Interviewer: Van Meter, Peggy
  Contributor Type: Personal
• Interviewer: Tombaugh, John
  Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

• Name: National Museum of the Pacific War
  Place of Publication: Fredericksburg, Texas

Date

• Creation: 2001-08-28

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Glenn Cleland. He was born in Rochester, Indiana on December 3, 1920. He was drafted into the Army in October 1942 and was assigned to a machine gun platoon with the 12th Armored Division, 17th Infantry Battalion. On October 3, 1944 he shipped out to England on the passenger liner MS Empress of Australia. He recalls that it took two weeks to resupply, followed by a landing at Le Havre, France. He recalls that his division was assigned to the 3rd Army and relieved the 4th Armored Division. His division was sent to the small Alsatian village of Herrlisheim on January 16, 1945, to join other units. He recalls that the Americans had captured half of the village by that time, when the Germans retook the town on January 17. By January 18 his unit was holed up in a barn when a German tank arrived, forcing them to surrender. He recalls being marched to the Rhine River, suffering frostbite and crossing the river, where he and the other POWs were loaded onto railroad cattle guards and taken to the German POW camp, Stalag VI-G in Baden Baden. He describes being interrogated by a German who had worked at the Willys Jeep factory in Toledo, Ohio before the war. He was moved several times and finally to Moosburg. He recalls that tanks from 14th Armored Division arrived outside the camp on April 29 and the guards fled. He was transferred to Munich and flown back to France on May 8, the day Germany surrendered. From there he flew back to the States on May 29, was awarded a Bronze Star and discharged on September 5, 1945.
• Physical Description: 50 p.

Subject

• Library of Congress Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945
• University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: People - Individuals
• University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Military and War - Wars - World War II
• Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Interviews
• Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Oral histories
• Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Personal narratives
• Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Autobiographies
• Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Biographies
• Keyword: WWII
• Keyword: United States. Army
• Keyword: United States. Army. Armored Division, 12th
• Keyword: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France
• Keyword: World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
• Keyword: Prisoner of War
• Keyword: Prisoner-of-war camps

Primary Source

• Item is a Primary Source

Relation

• Oral History Interview with Glenn Cleland, August 28, 2001 - ark:/67531/metapth1607582

Collection

• Name: National Museum of the Pacific War Oral History Collection
  Code: NMPW
• Name: National Museum of the Pacific War Digital Archive
  Code: NMPWA

Institution

• Name: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
  Code: NMPW

Rights

• Rights License: by-nc-nd
• Rights Statement: Commercial use is prohibited without permission from the National Museum of the Pacific War.

Resource Type

• Text

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Accession or Local Control No: OH00267
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth1603616