Oral History Interview with Charles Pase, April 12, 2001 Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Oral History Interview with Charles Pase, April 12, 2001

Creator

  • Interviewer: Cox, Floyd
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Interviewee: Pase, Charles
    Creator Type: Personal

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 2001-04-12

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Interview with Charles Pase, a marine during World War II. He discusses joining the Marines and training on New Zealand and other Pacific islands. He describes landing on Tarawa, the battle of Tarawa itself, and locating and burying the dead bodies after the battle. He also talks about going to Hawaii for more training before going to Saipan, various guns and artillery he used, encountering natives on Saipan and being in Nagasaki after the bomb was dropped. He relates ancedotes about having tonsillitis during the Tarawa attack, fights that some Marines got into with local Hawaiians while training there and prejudices against Japanese-Americans, mistaking a land crab that pinched the back of his neck for a bayonet, getting Dengue Fever, and faking a landing on April Fools' Day.
  • Physical Description: 1 sound recording : digital

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Texas
  • 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: Oral histories
  • Keyword: biographies
  • Keyword: interviews
  • Keyword: WWII
  • Named Person: Pase, Charles
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: United States. Marine Corps
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Tarawa, Battle of, Kiribati, 1943
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Artillery
  • Keyword: Nagasaki-shi, Japan

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Time Period: mod-tim
  • Place Name: Kiribati - Gilbert Islands - Tarawa Atoll
  • Place Name: Northern Mariana Islands - Saipan Island
  • Place Name: Japan - Nagasaki Prefecture - Nagasaki-shi City - Nagasaki
  • Place Name: United States - Texas

Collection

  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War Oral History Collection
    Code: NMPW
  • Name: National Museum of the Pacific War Digital Archive
    Code: NMPWA
  • Name: Texas Oral History Collection
    Code: TOHC
  • Name: World War Two Collection
    Code: WWII

Institution

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

Resource Type

  • Sound

Format

  • Audio

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: OH00133
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth204474
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth204474

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