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Oral History Interview with Alan Fouts, December 6, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Alan Fouts. Fouts joined the Navy in 1939 and trained in San Diego. Upon completion of basic training, Fouts joined the USS Argonne (AG-31). Later, he was stationed at the submarine base at Pearl Harbor when the war started. He recalls witnessing the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. He managed to get guns operational on the USS Widgeon (AM-22) before it got underway during the attack. Between the attacks, Fouts went alongside the US… more
Date: December 6, 2001
Creator: Fouts, Alan
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

[Letter from Cornelia Yerkes, January 8, 1944]

Description: Letter from Cornelia Yerkes written on Hutson Hotels stationary, discussing flying a Cessna to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, her current layover in Amarillo and pending trip back to Wichita. In postcript, she asks the recipient to send a friend a fruit box.
Date: January 8, 1944
Creator: Kafka, Cornelia V. Yerkes
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Oral History Interview with John Breckenridge Garrison, September 18, 1970

Description: Interview with Brack Garrison, a Marine WWII veteran and POW from Amarillo, Texas, accompanied by Nita Boynton. Garrison details his experiences defending Guam in the Japanese invasion of December 1941, and his subsequent surrender and internment in Japanese POW camps at Zentsuji and Osaka.
Date: September 18, 1970
Creator: Marcello, Ronald & Garrison, John Breckenridge (Brack)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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