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Oral History Interview with David Lee Hill, September 20, 2003

Description: Interview with David Lee "Tex" Hill of San Antonio, Texas, a veteran from the United States Navy during World War II in the China-Burma-India Theater. The interview includes Hill's personal experiences while in the Navy, including memories of pre-war flight training in Florida, the Flying Tigers, and the Salween River Gorge attack.
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 53 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Cox, William G. & Hill, David Lee
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Charles Findley, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Findley. Findley joined the Army Air Forces in July of 1942. He received pilot training at Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona from both the Royal Air Force and United States. Upon graduation, Findley was eligible to wear the wings of both countries. He also completed Special Weapons Training. He served in Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Omaha, Nebraska setting up a missile safety program. Findley’s military career began with a … more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 52 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Findley, Charles
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Norman, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Norman. Born in 1919, he joined the Army Air Force in September 1941. He began his pilot training in early 1942. He served as a flight instructor in the Army Air Training Command at Marfa Army Airfield, Texas for two years. In September 1944 he was transferred to the Air Transport Command. He relates a story about landing a C-46 on Ascension Island en route to delivering it to England. Because he had experience flying… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Norman, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Jim Romer, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jim Romer. In 1943 he was a civilian single-engine flight instructor at an Army Primary Flying School in Helena, Arkansas. He then joined the Ferry Command in Memphis, Tennessee where he received twin-engine training and worked as a civilian pilot ferrying airplanes. He shares an anecdote about leading a flight of six airplanes from Brazil to Ascension Island. After attending four-engine flight school, he went to Mitchel Fie… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 36 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Romer, Jim
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Englert, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Englert. Englert joined the Army in April of 1943. He traveled to Calcutta, India, and worked with the Military Police stationed there. He worked on patrol at the docks. He also joined the Z Force in Kunming, China, where he worked as a telephone operator, with the Red Cross, and as a librarian on the base. He returned to the US and was discharged in November of 1945.
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 29 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Englert, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Holden, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James E. Holden. Holden joined the Army and trained at Camp Swift, Texas in 1943. He was assigned to a replacement battalion and eventually shipped to Burma where he joined Merrill's Marauders. He joined them before the Myitkyina campaign. He got injured by a fall and was eventually evacuated back to Lido. He returned to his unit in time for them to relocate to Kunming. He was detached to temporary duty at Kweiyang helping b… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Holden, James E.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with W. A. (Bill) Henderson, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with W. A. (Bill) Henderson. He discusses his time as a bombardier and navigator on a B-24 in the China-Burma-India Theater. His crew made bombing runs along the Burma Railway and hit the bridge over River Kwai (Mae Klong), and also flew runs to supply gasoline to various bases in China, India and Burma. He ancedotes about the food and living quarters on the bases and saving his co-pilot's life after a bullet tore through the pla… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Henderson, W. A. (Bill)
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with David Lee ""Tex"" Hill, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with David Lee ""Tex"" Hill. He discusses his time with the Flying Tigers and with Air Force Fighter Groups flying missions in China, particularly the Salween Gorge bombing to keep the Japanese from crossing into China there.
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 53 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Hill, David Lee ""Tex""
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James E. T. Hopkins, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dr. James E.T. Hopkins. Hopkins was born in Howard County, Maryland on 19 January 1915. Following high school, he attended The Johns Hopkins University graduating from the Medical School in 1941. He volunteered to go overseas with the Johns Hopkins Hospital Unit and was transported to Fiji aboard the SS President Coolidge (1931). On Fiji, they built the barracks out of reeds and bamboo and the hospital was a prefabricated bu… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Hopkins, James E. T.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Wesley Furste, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dr. Wesley Furste. Furste was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 19 April 1915. Having attended Harvard Medical School, Dr. Furste joined the US Army Medical Corps in August 1942 and was sent to the Field Medical Service School at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Upon graduation, he was sent to Kunming, China and assigned as a surgeon in the United States Army 22nd Field Hospital. He tells of training various Chinese people in medi… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 28 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Furste, Wesley
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with David Witts, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with David Witts. Witts was born in Texas 13 December 1920. After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Texas until 1941. Leaving college during his senior year, he joined the FBI as a special agent in training and before completing the training he resigned and joined the US Army Air Corps in October 1941. After training at various installations he became a navigator in 1944. Witts received combat training in… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 33 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Witts, David
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Julius Casarez, September 20, 2003

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Julius Casarez. Casarez was born in Austin, Texas on 9 May 1920. Upon joining the Army in December 1941, he had basic training in El Paso, Texas. Assigned to a machine gun anti-aircraft unit, he tells of sailing in convoy to Karachi, India. During July 1942, the unit moved to New Delhi. After six months they flew to Kunming, China. He describes traveling on the Burma Road to the Mekong River where they engaged in combat with… more
Date: September 20, 2003
Duration: 44 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Casarez, Julius
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Clifford E. Rice, September 20, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clifford E Rice. Rice dropped out of high school when calls for the draft began. Needing his parents’ permission to join the military, he joined the Navy after his father insisted that he eschew the Marine Corps. Rice was assigned to the destroyer USS Dunlap (DD-384). His first mission involved protecting President Roosevelt on a trip to Kiska, Aleutian Islands. As a mere seaman, Rice was initially stationed at a 40mm gun. I… more
Date: September 20, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 37 seconds
Creator: Rice, Clifford E
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John W. Bostian, September 20, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John W. Bostian. Bostian joined the service in August 1941 through the V-7 program. He received orders to report to the Naval Academy one day before the attack on Pearl Harbor, as an apprentice seaman. In May 1942 he boarded the USS Arkansas (BB-33) as an ensign in the engineering department and made six round trips across the Atlantic. After a transfer in 1943, he became a plank owner of the USS Franklin (CV-13) as their B … more
Date: September 20, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Bostian, John W
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Eunice Marie Valencia Cavajeh, September 20, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Eunice Marie Valencia Cavajeh. Cavajeh was born 16 October 1927 in Oskosura on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Her father was a Filipino doctor who was trained in the United States and her mother was an American nurse. They were married in the Philippines in 1919. Cavajeh recalls the Japanese invasion beginning 8 December 1941. She also recalls the confusion encountered upon leaving the city. She tells of the Japanes… more
Date: September 20, 2008
Duration: 54 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Cavajeh, Eunice Marie Valencia
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Martin DeVries, September 20, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Martin DeVries. DeVries joined the Navy as a Seabee in 1942. Having experience in painting and hanging wallpaper, he was assigned as a painter to the 31st Naval Construction Battalion, attached to the 5th Marine Division at Port Hueneme. When DeVries deployed to Iwo Jima, he assisted the storekeeper with the cold storage of fruits and vegetables; his incentive in doing so was to stay cool and enjoy fresh food. DeVries watche… more
Date: September 20, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: DeVries, MArtin
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ken Jones, September 20, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ken Jones. Jones joined the Navy in January of 1944. Beginning in May, he served as a 20mm gunner aboard the USS Colorado (BB-45). Jones participated in the pre-invasion shelling of Saipan, Guam and Tinian. Additionally, he participated in the Philippines Campaign and the Battle of Okinawa. After the war, they traveled to Tokyo Bay and witnessed the surrender of Japan. He returned to the US and was discharged around late 1945.
Date: September 20, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Jones, Ken
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Victor Nanadiego, September 20, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Victor Nanadiego. Nanadiego was born in the Philippines and was a private in the Philippine Army at the time of the Japanese invasion. He was captured and participated in the Bataan Death March. He describes insect infestations, rampant disease, and the lack of food and water. Nanadiego also discusses the duties POWs performed including burying the dead. He was released after four months and joined the guerillas when he had … more
Date: September 20, 2008
Duration: 54 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Nanadiego, Victor
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John Keith Wells, September 20, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Keith Wells. Wells was in the cavalry at Texas A&M when the war broke out. He joined the Marine Corps and attended officer’s school. There he learned parachuting, completing his final jumps with a broken leg, which he never sought medical care for. He received further training at Camp Pendleton and became the executive officer of his company. Landing on Iwo Jima in the third wave, he remained there for the duration of t… more
Date: September 20, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Wells, John Keith
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John Alden, September 20, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Alden. Alden was born in San Diego, California on 23 October 1921. While attending Cornell University he entered the US Navy V-7 Program. Upon graduating from Cornell he was ordered to attend Midshipman School at Columbia University. While there he was hospitalized for an extended period of time. Later, Alden was ordered to Midshipman’s School at Notre Dame University. Upon graduating in September 1943, he was sent to D… more
Date: September 20, 2009
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Alden, John
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ray Christensen, September 20, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ray Christensen. Christensen was born in Henry, South Dakota in December 1917. He joined the Navy in September 1941 and went to Great lakes Naval Training Station, Chicago, Illinois for boot training. Upon completion he reported aboard the USS Colorado (BB-45) at Bremerton, Washington. He tells of the ship taking part in the bombardment of Tarawa. After returning to the United States for overhaul, the ship took part in the i… more
Date: September 20, 2009
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Christensen, Ray
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with David Frazier, September 20, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with David Frazier. Frazier was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania on 19 May 1927. Upon joining the Navy in 1945 he went to boot camp at Samson Naval Training Base in New York. Upon completing boot training, he was sent to Iwo Jima where he went aboard the USS Susanville (PC-1149). He developed an ingenious method to make ice cream on board the ship. He recalls that after providing shuttle services for several months the ship went to… more
Date: September 20, 2009
Duration: 17 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Frazier, David
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Maurice Rindskopf, September 20, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Maurice Rindskopf. Rindskopf graduated from the Naval Academy in 1938. He completed submarine school in 1940. Beginning November of 1941, Rindskopf served as Commanding Officer aboard the USS Drum (SS-228). He completed 11 war patrols around Japan, Truk, Tulagi, Marshall Islands and the Philippines. He continued his service after the war ended, retiring in 1972 as a rear admiral and the Director of Naval Intelligence.
Date: September 20, 2009
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Rindskopf, Maurice
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Bob Kaufman, September 20, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Bob Kaufman. Kaufman joined the Navy in June of 1936. He graduated from the Naval Academy in June of 1940. Beginning in June, Kaufman served aboard the USS Wichita (CA-45), operating primarily in the North Atlantic. He worked in the Communications and Gunnery departments through December of 1942. Kaufman volunteered for submarine school, graduated in June of 1943 and served as Diving Officer and Executive Officer aboard the USS G… more
Date: September 20, 2009
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Kaufman, Bob
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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