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Oral History Interview with William Jones, August 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Jones. Jones joined the Army Air Forces in July of 1944. He shares a few anecdotes about basic training and went to aerial photography school as well as aerial gunnery school. Before he was assigned to a B-29 crew, the war ended. Jones was sent to Japan on occupation duty. While there, Jones visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki and was able to take aerial photographs in January, 1946. He returned to the US in August and was dis… more
Date: August 21, 2008
Duration: 2 hours 29 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Jones, William
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Hobart Martin, August 27, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Hobart Martin. Martin was drafted into the Army in February of 1943. In early 1944 he completed a college training detachment at Centenary College in Louisiana. From there he was assigned to Company E in the 342nd Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division. They were assigned to La Havre, France in February of 1945 due to the Battle of the Bulge. His regiment was involved in much combat in France until they departed in June of 194… more
Date: August 27, 2008
Duration: 59 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Martin, Hobart
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Sam Shelton, August 28, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Sam Shelton. Shelton was born in rural Kansas on 18 August 1917. He participated in the Civilian Pilot Training Program while attending Fort Hays College. Upon completing the program in 1939, he joined the Navy. After completing flight training at Pensacola, he was sent to the Corpus Christi (Texas) Naval Air Station as a flight instructor. In 1943 he was assigned to VF-7, a fighter squadron, stationed at San Diego, flying F… more
Date: August 28, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Shelton, Sam
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with J. D. Tanner, August 23, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with J.D. Tanner. Tanner was born 20 August 1924 in Jasper County, Indiana. He quit school in the seventh grade and worked with his father on a dairy farm. In August 1944, he was drafted into the US Army and had basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas. After four weeks of training he went to San Francisco and departed on a twenty-one day trip to Leyte. There he was assigned as a rifleman in the 37th Infantry Division. He describes … more
Date: August 23, 2007
Duration: 46 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Tanner, J. D.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Walter Kindrick, August 3, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Walter Kindrick. Kindrick was born 23 May 1925 in Coffeeville, Kansas. Upon graduating from high school in 1943, he joined the Army. After completing nine weeks of basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky he was assigned as an assistant tank driver of an M-4 Sherman tank. His unit eventually boarded a ship and sailed to South Hampton, England. On 10 June 1944 he crossed over to Normandy on an LST landing at Omaha Beach. There h… more
Date: August 3, 2007
Duration: 54 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Kindrick, Walter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Duane Howard, August 13, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Duane Howard. Howard was born in Miami, Indiana 30 November 1919. Although married with two children, he was drafted into the Navy in September 1944. After ten week of boot training at The Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Illinois he began three weeks of gunnery training. Upon completion of the training he was assigned to the merchant ship, SS O.B. Martin as a member of the Naval Armed Guard contingent. His job assignment… more
Date: August 13, 2007
Duration: 45 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Howard, Duane
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Wayne Cripe, August 15, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Wayne Cripe. Cripe was born in Camden, Indiana 22 March 1926. Drafted into the US Marine Corps in June 1944 he went to boot camp at Parris Island. After twelve weeks he was sent to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He describes the training he underwent. During November 1944 he was sent to Camp Banyan, Hilo, Hawaii where he was assigned to the 5th Marine Division, 32nd Replacement Battalion. He tells of landing on Iwo Jima and s… more
Date: August 15, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Cripe, Wayne
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Hagen, August 28, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Hagen. Hagen served as the gunnery officer aboard the USS Johnston (DD-557). The ship’s captain, Commander Ernest Evans, was well liked and highly respected by the crew. Hagen recalls the Johnston was with a group of seven destroyers and six escort carriers supporting the troop landing at Leyte Gulf. On 24 October 1944 they were alerted to the approach of a large Japanese force led by Admiral Kurita. Hagen describes i… more
Date: August 28, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Hagen, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Daniel W. Jones, August 31, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Daniel Jones. Jones was at Harvard and at the end of his sophomore year in 1940, he joined the Navy under the V-7 program. After a cruise on the old battleship USS Wyoming to Guantanamo, Cuba he enterd midshipman's school in New York City. At the end of three months, he was commissioned an ensign and sent to the USS Wichita (flagship of Commander Cruiser Division 7) in January 1941. He was a communications officer and on the… more
Date: August 31, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 01 second
Creator: Jones, Daniel W.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Hawk Hawkins, August 28, 2010

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Hawk Hawkins. Hawkins joined the Marine Corps in spring 1942. He was sent to radio school after boot camp. Hawkins then joined a replacement battalion and was assigned to the 1st Signal Company for a landing on Cape Glouster. Next Hawkins’ unit landed on Peleliu. He describes the battle and tells some stories from his experience. Hawkins was then sent to back to the States where he spent the remainder of the war working at a… more
Date: August 28, 2010
Duration: 31 minutes
Creator: Hawkins, Hawk
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Charles Bast, August 2, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Bast. Bast joined the Navy in January of 1942. He completed courses in seamanship, gunnery, navigation, and attended the Submarine Chaser Training Center in Miami. He was assigned to the USS Anoka (PC-571), of which he was a plank owner. He provides some details of this patrol craft. They were assigned to Port Townsend, Washington protecting the Bremerton Naval Base from enemy submarines. From the fall of 1942 to April of… more
Date: August 2, 2007
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Bast, Charles
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with L. D. Cox, August 10, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with L D Cox. Cox joined the Navy in 1944 and served aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35). He was assigned to a deck division, and later the Navigation Division. He describes some of his job functions and life in general aboard the ship. In the spring of 1945 they launched an attack on Tokyo to cover the landings on Iwo Jima and participated in the Battle of Okinawa. He provides details of these events. They traveled back to the States… more
Date: August 10, 2007
Duration: 2 hours 23 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Cox, L. D.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Larry Delewski, August 17, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Larry Delewski. Delewski joined the Navy around 1942. He attended gunnery school in Newport, Rhode Island and completed a program at the Naval Gun Factory for Advanced Hydraulics in Washington, D.C. In early 1944 he was then assigned to the USS Laffey (DD-724). He provides some details of the destroyer, including its weaponry. Delewski served as Mount Captain and was in charge of gun mount number three, located on the stern. They… more
Date: August 17, 2007
Duration: 2 hours 24 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Delewski, Larry
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Charles R. Clark, August 29, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles R. Clark. Clark was born in 1918 and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1939. His first assignment was as a gunnery officer aboard the USS San Francisco (CA-38). Next, he served aboard the USS Fairfax (DD-93) as an engineer. He also served aboard the USS Texas (BB-35) as a radio officer. Clark attended submarine school after the war started. After graduation he served on the USS O-2 as torpedo, gunnery and engineeri… more
Date: August 29, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Clark, Charles Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Paul Murphy, August 9, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Paul Murphy. Murphy joined the Navy in June of 1943. He received basic training in Farragut, Idaho. He completed fire control school on Treasure Island. Murphy served as a Fire Controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35). He shares details of his participation in the Marianas operation on Saipan, Guam and Tinian, bombarding the islands in preparation for the invasion of the Marines and Army. He also participated in the Battle … more
Date: August 9, 2007
Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: Murphy, Paul
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ursula Kramer, August 11, 2006

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Ursula Kramer. Born in 1907 in Königsberg, East Prussia, she talks about her life during World War I as the daughter of a German Army officer. She then recounts her life in Germany and Austria during World War II as the wife of a professor. She describes the living conditions in Germany during and after the war. She talks about the Allied bombing of Berlin. She discusses her husband's involvement in a secret German resistance effort as well as her own anti-H… more
Date: August 11, 2006
Duration: 51 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Kramer, Ursula
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Melvin A. Bice, August 9, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Melvin A. Bice. When Bice finished high school in Lincoln, Nebraska he joined the Navy. The Navy called him up in February, 1943 and he took basic training in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. During training, Bice contracted the mumps. After basic training, Bice was assigned at San Diego to the USS Mataco (AT-86), an ocean-going tugboat. Their first assignement was to tow a floating drydock to New Guinea. Along the way, Bice shot down a Japanese aircraft. Upon arrival … more
Date: August 9, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Bice, Melvin A.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Joseph M. Base, August 11, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Joseph M. "Joe" Base. Base begins by discussing growing up during the Depression. In 1942, after he finished high school, Base enlisted in the Navy. When he finished basic training, Base attended signalman school before being assigned to submarine school at New London, Connecticut. Upon completing school, Base was assigned to the USS Redfin (SS-272) at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Eventually, the Redfin made its way to the Panama Canal where it practiced firing tor… more
Date: August 11, 2011
Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Base, Joseph M.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Harry Bayne, August 26, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Brigadier General Harry Bayne. Bayne joined the Army Air Corps as a private in September, 1941. By August, 1942, he had attained the rank of flying sergeant, but soon was commissioned a second lieutenant. His first assignement was ferrying airplanes to fields where pilots were training. Eventually, he was sent to India and flew missions carrying fuel over the Himalaya Mountains to bombers and other airplanes operating out of China. He flew sixty-three missio… more
Date: August 26, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Bayne, Brigadier General Harry
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Gilberto Mendez, August 26, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Gilberto Mendez. Mendez's parents left Mexico in 1910 to escape the violence Mexican Revolution and relocated to San Antonio, Texas, where Gilberto was raised until the family moved back to Mexico during the Depression. When Mexico declared war on Germany in 1942, Mendez was drafted into the Mexican Army (Spanish: Erjecito Mexicano) for one year. Upon being discharged from the Mexican Army, Mendez was called up in the US where he volunteered for duty in the … more
Date: August 26, 2011
Duration: 2 hours 9 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Mendez, Gilberto
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Charles Thibeault, August 23, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Charles Thibeault. Thibeault was drafted and went into the Army in 1943. He took basic training in Alabama, was shipped overseas and joined the 35th Division, 134th Infantry, 1st Battalion, Company C in 1944 when they were in France. He was a squad leader then when he made Staff Sergeant he had his own platoon. He fought at the Battle of the Bulge and was wounded. He also fought in the Battle of Bastogne and at Metz. His outfit liberated one of the concentra… more
Date: August 23, 2011
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Thibeault, Charles E.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Paul T. Beeghly, August 22, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Paul T. "Tom" Beeghly. Beeghly was attending Ohio Wesleyen University when war was declared. He enlisted in the Army Reserve and stayed in school until he was called in early 1943. He trained as a medical aid man in the infantry at Camp Joseph P. Robinson in Arkansas. After basic training, he joined the 96th Infantry Division in Oregon for more training. By the time the division left for Hawaii in the spring of 1944, Beeghly was serving as an administrative … more
Date: August 22, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Beeghly, Paul T.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert A. Heym, August 19, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Robert A. Heym. When Heym finished high school in 1943 he went into the Army Air Force. He was in pilot training in Arkansas, but was caught doing dangerous aerial stunts and was washed out and sent to radio school in South Dakota. Upon completing that, he was assigned to a B-24 crew as a radio operator in Topeka, Kansas before heading overseas in April, 1944. Heym describes a few missions, being attacked by German fighters, fellow crewmembers getting killed… more
Date: August 19, 2011
Duration: 56 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Heym, Robert A.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John Karl Rankin, August 29, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with John Karl Rankin. Rankin begins by talking about living on a farm in the Oklahoma panhandle during the Dust Bowl days. He describes a massive dust storm striking the farm on his fourteenth birthday. He also shares anecdotes about cowboying on his uncle's ranch in Colorado as a teenager. In August, 1942, Rankin joined the Marine Corps, where he went to radio school and then radar school. he was attached to the First Marine Air Warning Squadron. Once he shippe… more
Date: August 29, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Rankin, John Karl
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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