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Oral History Interview with Stephen Krawczyk, December 18, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Stephen Krawczyk. Krawczyk enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1937 and trained in Hawaii and became an aircraft machinist. He was at Hickam Field when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He shares several anecdotes about his experiences during the attack. Krawczyk stayed on Oahu until December 1942 when he returned to the US for another assignment. He continued as a machinist until the war ended and was discharged in August, … more
Date: December 18, 2014
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Krawczyk, Stephen S.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Raymond Juengermann, December 23, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Raymond Juengermann. Juengermann was drafted into the Army Air Forces in January, 1943. He qualified for flight training and earned his wings in May, 1944. Then he reported to Roswell, New Mexico for training in B-17 bombers. In early 1945, he and his crew headed for England. Once he was settled into the routine, he began flying combat missions over Germany. he flew 29 combat missions in B-17s through April. After the war. Juenge… more
Date: December 23, 2014
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Juengermann, Raymond
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Douglas R. Smith, September 5, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Douglas R Smith. Smith joined the Army Air Forces in 1943. He served as a cryptographer, coding and decoding secret military messages in the Pacific, as the US prepared to invade Japan. After the war ended, Smith was stationed in Hokkaido, Japan. He received his discharge in late 1945.
Date: September 5, 2014
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Smith, Douglas R
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Herb Smith, March 24, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Herb Smith. Smith was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1920. In 1940 he entered Centenary College in Shreveport and participated in the Civilian Pilot Training Program. After completing the course he joined the Navy. After receiving his wings in July 1943 he went to Melbourne, Florida where he began training in the Grumman F6F fighter plane. Upon qualifying in carrier landings on Lake Michigan, he was sent to Guadalcanal in … more
Date: March 24, 2014
Duration: 57 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Smith, Herb
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Oran D. Evans, August 28, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Oran Evans. Evans joined the Army Air Forces in May 1942 and received basic training at Sheppard Field. He washed out of flight training in Santa Ana and transferred to gunnery school in Las Vegas. Upon completion, he was assigned to the 95th Bombardment Group as a ball turret gunner. Evans flew 25 missions, the most dangerous of which was over Munich. He credits the Tuskegee Airmen with his safety on those missions. Evans r… more
Date: August 28, 2014
Duration: 40 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Evans, Oran D
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ralph Fink, August 28, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ralph Fink. Fink joined the Army in March 1944 and received basic training at Camp Van Dorn. Upon completion, he was assigned to an anti-tank company with the 254th Infantry Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division. While awaiting shipment of their anti-tank weapons, he joined the 3rd Infantry Division in the Colmar Pocket. At the end of January, he rejoined his division and crossed the Danube. His unit was relieved and sent to a lo… more
Date: August 28, 2014
Duration: 33 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Fink, Ralph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Earl McWilliams, August 29, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Earl McWilliams. McWilliams joined the Army in October of 1944. He served as a BAR rifleman with the 25th Infantry Division, 27th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Company G. McWilliams participated in the Philippines Campaign beginning April of 1945 through the end of the war. He served with occupation forces in Japan. McWilliams returned to the US and received his discharge in February of 1946.
Date: August 29, 2014
Duration: 57 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: McWilliams, Earl
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Morris Hibbs, August 29, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Morris Hibbs. Hibbs joined the Marine Corps in November 1943 and received basic training in San Diego. He received field artillery instrument training at Camp Pendleton. Upon completion, he was sent to Hawaii. There he was reassigned to an antiaircraft unit on Kauai, serving as a cook. He was later stationed at a field kitchen on Okinawa, where he remained until the end of the war. Hibbs returned home and was discharged in D… more
Date: August 29, 2014
Duration: 36 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Hibbs, Morris
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Neil Berghout, August 29, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Neil Berghout. Berghout was born in Holland in 1926. He joined the Dutch resistance as a teenager, hiding downed American pilots and helping them return to England. When his identity was discovered by German officials, Berghout went into hiding in France. Members of the French resistance transported him to England, where he joined an armored division of the British Royal Army and participated in the Normandy invasion. After … more
Date: August 29, 2014
Duration: 50 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Berghout, Neil
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with W. T. Riedel, September 23, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with W.T. Riedel. Riedel was born in Yorktown, Texas on 27 December 1921. He was a member of the Texas A&M University band when he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1943. Following basic training at Sheppard Field in Wichita Falls, Texas, he was sent to the University of Denver in Colorado. While there he was selected for pilot training. He recalls the various air fields on which he received the various phases of f… more
Date: September 23, 2014
Duration: 34 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Riedel, W. T.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Seldon Prothro, November 13, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Seldon Prothro. Prothro was born in Texas in 1926. Upon enlisting in the Navy on 22 April 1944, he was sent to San Diego for boot training. Soon after completing boot training he developed mumps and was hospitalized. Upon his release, he was assigned the Armed Guard detachment aboard the SS William Luckenbach (1913) as a gunner/electrician. He delivered goods to Okinawa as well as several other islands. The ship returned to … more
Date: November 13, 2014
Duration: 29 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Prothro, Seldon
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ruben Clayton Davis, November 13, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ruben Davis. Davis was born in Texas on 5 July 1926. In 1944 he was inducted into the Navy and sent to San Diego for boot training. Upon completing eight weeks of boot training he was assigned to amphibious training at Coronado Island, California. During training, he covered boat handling, semaphore and Morse code. While in training he developed pneumonia and was hospitalized. Upon recovering, he was assigned to USS LSM-171 … more
Date: November 13, 2014
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Davis, Ruber C.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John M. Olsen, November 20, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John M Olsen. Olsen joined a reserve program with the Army Air Forces in February of 1944. In mid-1945, he deployed to the Philippines and joined a Recovered Personnel Detachment, processing allied prisoners of war. He transferred to Japan, continuing his work. Olsen returned to the US and received his discharge in December of 1946.
Date: November 20, 2014
Duration: 44 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Olsen, John M
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Austin Estes, September 14, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Austin Estes. Estes was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1922. In 1942 he joined the Navy and received boot training at San Diego. He was then sent to the University of Oklahoma to attend ordnance school followed by three months of training at the Mine Warfare Test Station in Solomons, Maryland. He was then sent to the Naval Mine Warfare Station in Yorktown, Virginia where he was assigned to a team that received an additional… more
Date: September 14, 2014
Duration: 40 minutes
Creator: Estes, Austin
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Cecil Groves, March 25, 2014

Description: The National Museum of The Pacific War presents an oral interview with Cecil Groves. Groves was born in a small hamlet in Arkansas in 1920. He quit school in seventh grade to help his father make a living for a family of ten. Drafted in 1941, he underwent basic training at Miami Beach. He was sent to Fresno, California where he was assigned to the Signal Corps and attended telephone linesman school. Completing school, he was sent to New Guinea where he was assigned to the communication section … more
Date: March 25, 2014
Duration: 40 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Groves, Cecil
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Elmer Anderson, September 26, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Elmer Anderson. Anderson joined the Army in January 1943 and received basic training in Mississippi and training as a medic in South Carolina. Upon completion, he was assigned to the 87th Infantry Division, supporting the headquarters company. At the Battle of the Bulge, he was stationed one mile behind the front lines. He passed the Buchenwald concentration camp but didn’t know how severe conditions were inside. Although An… more
Date: September 26, 2014
Duration: 45 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Elmer
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Utah Hamilton, April 9, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Utah Hamilton. Hamilton joined the Navy in December, 1941 and trained in Virginia. Afterwards, he was assigned to the USS Southampton (AKA-66). Hamilton was aboard during the invasion of Iwo Jima and recalls seeing the flags raised and watching the beach get cleared of debris. At Okinawa, he participated in the decoy landing. When the war ended, Hamilton shipped a lot of occupation troops to Japan. He returned to the US in N… more
Date: April 9, 2014
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Hamilton, Utah
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Oliver Massey, May 6, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Oliver Massey. Massey joined the Marine Corps at the age of sixteen. After boot camp, Massey was assigned to Fighter Squadron 2 (VF-2) where he began training as an aircraft mechanic at North Island Naval Air Station. In January of 1940 he was assigned to Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 231 (VMSB-231) Ewa, Hawaii and he describes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In early 1942, the squadron flew the SB2U-3 Scout Bomber in the Ba… more
Date: May 6, 2014
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Massey, Oliver
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with David Spradling, February 11, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with David Spradling. Spradling graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity from Southern Methodist University in December of 1942. He was ordained in January of 1943 and in February, Spradling was commissioned as a Navy Chaplain. He was assigned to Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida. Later, he worked at Manana Naval Barracks and Kaneohe Bay Naval Air Station in Hawaii. He worked with the African-American community of Navy men, and with… more
Date: February 11, 2014
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Spradling, David
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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