title: Oral History Interview with Willard LaCounte, June 9, 2016
creator: LaCounte, Willard
contributor: Misenhimer, Richard
contributor: Misenhimer, Gayle
publisher: National Museum of the Pacific War
date: 2016-06-09
language: English
description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with
 Willard LaCounte. LaCounte was drafted into the Army in September, 1943 and
 trained as an antiaircraft artilleryman at Camp Haan, California. In late 1943
 he was assigned to the 118th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion as a
 jeep driver in an industrial section of England and recalls defending it
 against German air raids. He landed at Normandy one day after the invasion.
 His unit eventually set up in Holland and shot down buzz bombs heading across
 the Channel. After the war LaCounte helped arrange R&R trips for soldiers.
subject: World War, 1939-1945
subject: People - Individuals
subject: Military and War - Wars - World War II
subject: Interviews
subject: Oral histories
subject: Personal narratives
subject: Autobiographies
subject: Biographies
subject: WWII
subject: United States. Army. Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons
 Battalion, 118th
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- England
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy
subject: V-1 bomb
subject: V-2 rocket
subject: Allied occupation, Germany, 1945-1955
rights: Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives
rights: Commercial use is prohibited without permission from the National Museum
 of the Pacific War.
type: Text
format: 36 p.
format: Text
identifier: local-cont-no: OH04606
identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu./ark:/67531/metapth1607043/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth1607043