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Oral History Interview with Warren Kerrigan, February 13, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Warren Kerrigan. Kerrigan joined the Navy in January of 1943. He completed quartermaster and signalman school. He served as Seaman First Class and Quartermaster Striker aboard USS Frost (DE-144) in June of 1943. He also worked on the deck force aboard the ship. They made one convoy escort voyage to Casablanca between November and December. They participated in coastal escort operations with the USS Croatan (CVE-25) hunter-killer … more
Date: February 13, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Kerrigan, Warren
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Zane Puckett, February 10, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Zane Puckett. Puckett joined the Navy in April, 1942. After boot training, he qualified for communications school. Upon graduation, Puckett was assigned aboard USS PC-602. After transiting the Panama Canal, Puckett joined USS YMS-93 as her signalman in August, 1943. At the Marshall Islands, they patrolled for submarines and accidentally damaged their wooden keel. After repairs at Pearl Harbor, YMS-93 headed for Okinawa in time fo… more
Date: February 10, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Puckett, Zane K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with George Redman, March 9, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George Redman. Redman joined the Navy in May of 1941. He served on the deck force aboard the USS Mississippi (BB-41). From May to 7 December, they escorted convoys back and forth across the North Atlantic. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, they transferred to the Pacific Fleet. Redman completed diving school and worked with the ship’s pumps. He became Seaman First Class, Coxswain, and later became head diver and Gun Captain. Aboa… more
Date: March 9, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Redman, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John Sleasman, February 17, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John F. Sleasman. Sleasman was born 16 June 1926 and joined the Navy in 1943. After attending boot camp at Sampson, New York he went to machinist school in Dearborn, Michigan. He then trained as a diver in Manhattan, New York and tells of the sunken USS Lafayette (AP-53) (formerly the SS Normandie) being used for training purposes. In 1944 he was sent to the ship salvage depot in Noumea, New Caledonia. Sleasman recalls worki… more
Date: February 17, 2006
Duration: 46 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Sleasman, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John Stutterheim, February 28, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Stutterheim. Stutterheim was born 14 June 1928 in Indonesia. He speaks fondly of growing up on the island of Java. Stutterheim was 13 years old in December of 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. With the surrender of Java to the Japanese in 1942, Stutterheim and his younger brother and mother were taken to one prison camp and his father to another, where they all remained until their liberation in 1945. Their camps were lo… more
Date: February 28, 2006
Duration: 2 hours 17 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Stutterheim, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Vickers, January 19, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Vickers. Vickers was born in Adams Mill, Ohio 20 February 1924. Joining the Army Air Forces in November 1942, he was sent to Keesler Field, Mississippi for basic training. He was then sent to Mississippi State College then the Cadet Classification Center in San Antonio. He received preflight training prior to being sent to Garner Field, Uvalde, Texas for flight training by civilian instructors. Vickers describes some … more
Date: January 19, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Vickers, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Shiels, April 6, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Shiels. Shiels served in the Corps of Cadets, Field Artillery, at Texas A&M. He obtained an Electrical Engineering degree and graduated in charge of a Field Artillery Regiment. He was called to active duty with the Army shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. He served as a Communications Officer and Motor Pool Officer in the 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. From December of 1942 throug… more
Date: April 6, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Shiels, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Delmar Oldenettel, April 13, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Delmar Oldenettel. Oldenettel was drafted into the Army and, after training, was shipped to a replacement depot in New Caledonia. In August, 1943, he was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division at Guadalcanal. From Guadalcanal, he went to Vella Lavella for the invasion. Afterwards, he went to New Zealand for rest with the rest of the division. Oldenettel then describes combat on Luzon when his unit landed at Lingayen Gulf in … more
Date: April 13, 2006
Duration: 24 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Oldenettel, Delmar
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Bill Lane, April 1, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Lane. Lane was attending the University of Texas and tried joining the Marine Corps, but did not pass the physical. He instead opted for the Army, which accepted him. He trained at Fort Custer, Michigan. There he trained as a military policeman and was soon shipped to a prisoner of war camp housing German submarine sailors in New Mexico. After being sent to west coast, Lane boarded a ship and sailed 23 days to New Caled… more
Date: April 1, 2006
Duration: 29 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Lane, Bill
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Eugene Cain, April 20, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Eugene Cain. Cain joined the Indiana national Guard and earned a commission. Cain speaks of following General MacArthur into the Philippines in 1944. Cain was an armored artillery battery commander. He describes the surrender of several hundred Japanese toorps. Apparently, after the war, Cain got into some trouble with a Filipino woman and was transferred out o fthe Philippines to Seoul, Korea, where he ran the officer's clu… more
Date: April 20, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Cain, Eugene
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Roy Simmons, April 28, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Roy Simmons. Simmons begins by describing his reaction to the news about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He stayed in college for a little while before hitchhiking to San Antonio and joining the Marine Corps. After he graduated in August, 1943, he was sent to Parris Island for basic training. He went to Officer Candidate School and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps before shipping out to Hawaii. Finally, h… more
Date: April 28, 2006
Duration: 52 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Simmons, Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Henry Michalak, April 28, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Henry Michalak. Michalak joined the Marine Corps and, after training in San Diego, went to communications school. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division and sailed for the Solomon Islands after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He relates an anecdote about being on Gavutu and having an American dive bomber dorp a bomb near him. He then describes being present on Guadalcanal during the battle. His jo… more
Date: April 28, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Michalak, Henry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Lew Weber, April 28, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Lew Weber. Weber graduated from high school in Galveston, Texas, in May and joined the Marine Corps in July, 1943. He joined the Second Marine Division at Camp Tarawa on Hawaii late in 1943. Weber describes his experiences going ashore during the invasion of Saipan. he also describes a Japanese tank attack and being wounded on Saipan. Weber's unit was headed for Okinawa, but was diverted back to Saipan, where he finished the… more
Date: April 28, 2006
Duration: 31 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Weber, Lew
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Bud Rohling, May 18, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bud Rohling. Rohling recalls volunteering for the service shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was called up in March, 1942 and went into flight training. After training, he was assigned to the 3rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron. Rohling's first job was to fly over the coast of northern Canada and Alaska and take photographs. He mentions also flying over the coast of Russia and taking a few photographs there as well. F… more
Date: May 18, 2006
Duration: 47 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Rohling, Bud
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Atkinson, March 23, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James E. Atkinson. Atkinson was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1921. His younger brother was killed in Europe during the war. Atkinson attended Vanderbilt University with a football scholarship in 1940. In 1942 he joined the Navy Reserves and entered the V-12 Navy College Training Program. Soon afterwards, he entered Midshipman’s school at Notre Dame. Upon graduating 20 June 1944, he was commissioned an ensign. He then ente… more
Date: March 23, 2006
Duration: 2 hours 27 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Atkinson, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ollie Schaetter, June 12, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ollie Schaetter. Schaetter shares some of his family history of their funeral home in Fredericksburg, Texas. He joined the Navy in December of 1943. In California he worked in the Chief Master at Arms office on the US Navy Hospital staff. Beginning in December of 1944 he served as Pharmacist’s Mate 3rd Class aboard the USS Goshen (APA-108). They traveled to the Marshall Islands, Okinawa and Guadalcanal. He worked for 6 months in … more
Date: June 12, 2006
Duration: 42 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Schaetter, Ollie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Leonard Dimminger, April 6, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral history with Leonard Dimminger. Dimminger finished high school in June 1942 and immediately enlisted in the Navy. After basic training in San Diego, he went to Idaho for radio communications training. He eventually became an aviation radioman. He went overseas in early 1943 to Australia and was eventually assigned to VP-52. He describes several night flights he made with VP-52. He stayed with this squadron while he was overseas. He returne… more
Date: April 6, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Dimminger, Leonard G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with William Frushour, May 24, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William V. Frushour. Born in Fulton County, Indiana 25 October 1921, Frushour graduated from high school in 1939 and attended St. Joseph’s College for two years. Upon being drafted in 1942, he went to Camp Grant, Illinois for basic training. After completion, he was sent to Camp Carson, Colorado for basic medical training. Upon completion of the medical training he was assigned to the 31st General Hospital. He went aboard a … more
Date: May 24, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Frushour, William V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Wallis Hines, April 18, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Wallis Hines. Hines joined the Army in September of 1943. In March of 1944 they traveled to Naples, Italy, where he was assigned to C Company, 3rd Chemical Mortar Battalion. In May they set up a mortar position in preparation for General Mark Clark to lead the Fifth Army in its capture of Rome in June. They participated in the Invasion of Southern France in August. In December they moved into Bastogne, Belgium in preparation for … more
Date: April 18, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Hines, Wallis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Cleatus A. LeBow. LeBow joined the Navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indiana… more
Date: May 2, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: LeBow, Cleatus A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Roy McIlvain, May 26, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the pacific War presents an interview with Roy McIlvain. McIlvain describes his experiences growing up in Kansas during the Great Depression. McIlvain joined the Army in January 1943. Instead of training, he joined a searchlight outfit in Washington DC. He was eventually attached to the 76th Infantry Division and traveled to England with them. He shares several anecdotes from his time in the infantry in France, Belgium and Germany. McIlvain carried a Browning Automatic Ri… more
Date: May 26, 2006
Duration: 2 hours 05 seconds
Creator: McIlvain, Roy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Chelly Mendoza, May 25, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Chelly Mendoza. Mendoza was drafted into the Army in August, 1942. He was attached as a medic to the 1st Cavalry Division. He went overseas in May, 1943 and landed at Oro Bay, New Guinea. Mendoza served as a litter bearer hauling wounded from the battlefield. He drove an ambulance in the Admiralty Islands during the campaign in 1944. In October, Mendoza went to Leyte during the invasion of the Philippines. Mendoza helped liberate… more
Date: May 25, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Mendoza, Chelly P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with C. E. Simmons, April 21, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with C E Simmons. Simmons joined the Navy in October of 1944. Beginning in January of 1945 he served aboard the USS Goshen (APA-108) as coxswain driving Landing Craft, Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) to the beach. They traveled to Hawaii and New Hebrides, and landed the first wave at the Battle of Okinawa. In September of 1945 he was assigned to the US Naval Training Center in Newport, Rhode Island, training new crewmembers for sea duty. He … more
Date: April 21, 2006
Duration: 57 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Simmons, C. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with LaVergne Thomas, September 4, 2006

Description: Then National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with LaVergne Thomas. Thomas was born in Louisville, Kentucky 31 March 1921. After graduating from high school in 1939 she entered nurse training, which she completed at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Houston, Texas in 1942. Joining the US Army Nurse Corps 7 December 1942 she entered the service as a second lieutenant at Randolph Field, Texas and was sent to Bowman Field, Kentucky for training as a flight nurse. She trained in C-47 ai… more
Date: September 4, 2006
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Thomas, LaVergne
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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