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Oral History Interview with Richard Yarling, November 16, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Yarling. Yarling was at Indiana University when the war started. He joined the Navy while still in school and graduated in 1943. After further training and commissioing, he joined USS Chauncy (DD-667) and served as an assistance communications officer working closely with the radar and radio. Yarling shares anecdotes about life on board the destroyer and recalls going ashore at Tarawa. He also recalls experiences in two t… more
Date: November 16, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Yarling, Richard
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Allen Cates, November 23, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Allen Cates. Cates joined the Army in 1944. He completed basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas, and paratrooper training off Dog Island, Florida. In December he deployed to New Guinea and served with the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division. In mid-February 1945, they landed on Corregidor to liberate the island from occupying Japanese forces. From there he was assigned as a combat engineer with the 11th, work… more
Date: November 23, 2016
Duration: 42 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Cates, Allen
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Jackie Haworth, November 3, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jackie Haworth. Haworth entered the Navy March 1944. He went to Faragut, Idaho for boot camp. From there he went on to California, Hawaii and then to the South Pacific and boarded the USS Boston (CA-69). He was in the black gang on the Boston working in the aft engine room serving as a fireman, first class. Later, he became a machinist mate, first class. He was part of the Battle of the Philippine Sea in 1944. He provides de… more
Date: November 3, 2016
Duration: 46 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Haworth, Jackie
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Walter Wier, November 4, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Walter Wier. Wier joined the Navy in June, 1942 and trained at San Diego. With training complete, Wier was assigned to the Armed Guard and board the SS Day Star (1939) in San Francisco. Wier’s son provides a chronology of Wier’s first cruise in the Pacific starting in early 1943. After one voyage aboard the Day Star, he was transferred to the Young America. His third voyage was aboard the William H Moody. Wier sailed in the … more
Date: November 4, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Wier, Walter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Charles William Wiley, November 11, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles William Wiley. Wiley joined the Navy in 1944. He completed basic training in Samson, New York, and worked in Naval Intelligence at an airfield in Anacostia, near Washington DC. He helped make propaganda and training films, and worked security on the base. In early 1945, he was assigned to USS LST-950 in the Pacific and participated in the assault and occupation of Okinawa. From September through early November, they perfo… more
Date: November 11, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Wiley, Charles William
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with George Halfin, November 23, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George S. Halfin. Halfin joined the Army in early 1942. He studied geodetic computing at the University of Kentucky, then joined the 910th Engineers Air Force Headquarters Company. They were sent to Colorado Springs, and worked on drafting plans to extend runways in the U.S. to handle military planes. Through 1943, Halfin traveled to around 45 states in the U.S., analyzing runways. They would clock the amount and distance it took… more
Date: November 23, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Halfin, George
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with William Lozano, November 17, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William Lozano. Lozano joined the Navy in January 1944 and trained at San Diego. From there he also attended radar school at Point Loma before reporting aboard the USS Washington (BB-56). He shares several anecdotes and provides much detail of his life aboard ship during WWII. He was discharged in May 1946.
Date: November 17, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Creator: Lozano, William
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with William Riggs, November 18, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Riggs. Riggs joined the Navy in March 1943 and trained at San Diego. He was then assigned as a parachute rigger in Torpedo Squadron 40 (VT-40) aboard the USS Suwannee (ACV-27) in February, 1945. He was aboard when the Suwannee participated in the Okinawa invasion. After the war, Riggs stayed in the Active Reserves until 1985, retiring as a master chief.
Date: November 18, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Riggs, William
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Kirk, November 29, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Kirk. Kirk joined the Army Air Forces in March 1943 and trained in radio operation and aerial gunnery. When he got overseas, he was assigned to the 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group in Italy as a gunner. In January, 1945, on his 27th combat mission, Kirk’s B-17 was shot down and he managed to bail out over Hungary. Kirk was captured and made a prisoner of war. After a month in solitary confinement in Hungary, he was moved … more
Date: November 29, 2016
Duration: 45 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Kirk, James
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Glenn Norwood, November 30, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Glenn Norwood. Norwood joined the Army Air Forces in May 1942. He soon joined the 307th Bomb Group as an armorer for B-24s and went to Hawaii. From there, Norwood went with them to Guadalcanal. He flew on one mission as a gunner and was glad to get back to base. Norwood shares several anecdotes about his experiences around B-24s on Guadalcanal, Noemfoor, Wakde, Morotai and other islands. He was discharged in August, 1945.
Date: November 30, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Norwood, Glenn
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Charles Thorney, November 18, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Thorney. Thorney was in the NROTC at Northwestern University when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He was commissioned in September 1944, a year early, and sent to Florida for training in antisubmarine warfare. He was eventually assigned as the executive officer aboard USS PGM-2, a motorized patrol gunboat, in the Solomon Islands. Thorney recalls operating mostly at night around the Rabaul area interdicting Japanese su… more
Date: November 18, 2016
Duration: 50 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Thorney, Charles
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with the Schumacher Sisters, November 8, 2016

Description: Interview with Frances Schumacher Andrews, Billie Schumacher Zuber, and Jeanne Schumacher Sutton, three sisters who grew up in Kerrville. They discuss their family history, the Schumacher family business and land, and individual experiences working at the Kerrville Courthouse, becoming an accountant, and joining the military.
Date: November 8, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis; Andrew, Mary Frances Schumacher; Zuber, Billie Gayle Schumacher & Sutton, Jeanne Clare Schumacher
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Louis Romero Jr., November 22, 2016

Description: Interview with Louis Romero Jr., who carried on the Mexican food business and Tortilla Factory started by his grandmother, Delphina Torres, in Kerrville. The interview discusses his family history, upbringing, the development of Torres, a Mexican restaurant, his grandmother's sending canned tamales to World War II troops, military service, and family. Photographs and documents relating to the interview follow the transcript text.
Date: November 22, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Romero, Louis, Jr.
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Mary Elaine Jones, November 2, 2016

Description: Interview with Mary Elaine Adamek Jones, who worked as a labor and delivery nurse, got her doctorate of philosophy in cultural anthropology from Southern Methodist University, and directed the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Texas at Arlington before retiring after 25 years. She also taught nursing for 13 years at the University of the Incarnate Word in Kerrville. The interview details her father's career as an accomplished saddle maker, her education, and career, and … more
Date: November 2, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Jones, Mary Elaine Adamek
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Karen and Clark Klein, November 16, 2016

Description: Interview with Karen and Clark Klein. Karen attended Notre Dame Catholic School in Kerrville and graduated from Tivy High School before completed a course at Durham Business College. She worked at Wool and Mohair Warehouse in Ingram before marrying Clark in 1962. Clark also attended Notre Dame School and Tivy where the couple met. He served in the Army for three years, worked briefly the postal services, and enlisted again in the National Guard. He served until 1982 and achieved the rank of Com… more
Date: November 16, 2016
Duration: 54 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes; Klein, Karen Margaret Herzog & Klein, Clark Dennis
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
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