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Title

  • Main Title Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011

Creator

  • Interviewee: Wiseman, Al
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Interviewer: Jensen, Pete
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 2011-03-29

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Wiseman. Wiseman joined the Navy in 1942 and was assigned to the USS Greene (AVD-13). He served as a deck seaman and stood lookout while on watch. Wiseman discusses traveling as an escort to Brazil and then travelling to the Mediterranean. He describes taking part in the invasion of Southern France. The Greene was then sent to the Pacific and performed escort duty near Okinawa. He describes seeing several Japanese air attacks on ships that were nearby. Wiseman traveled to Japan at the end of the war to pick up POWs. He also visited Nagasaki. Wiseman describes how his ship was critically damaged when it ran aground during a typhoon in October of 1945. He served on two more ships working in engineering before getting out of the Navy in 1948.
  • Physical Description: 1 sound recording (1 hr., 13 min., 43 sec.)

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
  • Keyword: USS Greene (APD-36)
  • Keyword: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France
  • Keyword: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island
  • Keyword: Kamikaze airplanes
  • Keyword: Typhoons
  • Keyword: Atomic bomb -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi -- Blast effect

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Time Period: mod-tim
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  • Place Name: Italy - Sicily Region - Palermo Province - Palermo
  • Place Name: United States - California - San Diego County - San Diego
  • Place Name: Japan - Okinawa Prefecture - Okinawa Shi City - Okinawa
  • Place Name: United States - New York - Nassau County - Long Beach
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  • Place Name: United States - California - Los Angeles County - San Pedro
  • Place Name: United States - Oregon - Clatsop County - Astoria

Relation

  • Has Transcription: Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011, [transcript] ark:/67531/metapth1605949

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

  • Sound

Format

  • Audio

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: OH03222
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth1609757
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