Oral History Interview with Donald Hair, June 14, 2004 Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Oral History Interview with Donald Hair, June 14, 2004

Creator

  • Interviewee: Hair, Donald
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Interviewer: Tombaugh, John
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Interviewer: Van Meter, Peg
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 2004-06-14

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Donald Hair. Hair was drafted into the Navy when he was 18 years old. During boot camp he learned Morse Code, and how to serve as a signal flagman, helmsman and loader on a 5-inch gun. He worked aboard the USS Aulick (DD-569), which joined Admiral Kinkaid???s 7th Fleet. He provides some details of his job aboard and the ship in general. They traveled to Guam, Guadalcanal, the Solomon Islands, Leyte Gulf and the Philippines. In November of 1944 at Leyte Gulf their destroyer was attacked by 6 Japanese planes, which Hair describes and received shrapnel in his back. He was transferred to a hospital ship and then to a hospital on New Caledonia. He provides some information on the US Fleet Hospital 105 in New York. Once healed he joined a Seabee construction unit. He traveled back to the States around May of 1945 aboard the USS Rixey (APH-3). He describes his experiences aboard, including going through a typhoon. He was later assigned to the USS Adirondack (AGC-15), where he oversaw 6 men stationed on the large bridge. He served a total of 5 years in the Navy.
  • Physical Description: 9 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. Navy -- Signalmen
  • Keyword: United States. Navy. Seabees
  • Keyword: Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944
  • Keyword: Kamikaze airplanes
  • Keyword: World War, 1939-1945 -- New Caledonia
  • Keyword: Military hospitals, American
  • Keyword: Typhoons
  • Keyword: USS Rixey (APH-3)
  • Keyword: USS Aulick (DD-569)
  • Keyword: USS Adirondack (AGC-15)

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

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: OH02634
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth1605653
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