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Oral History Interview with Ralph Schultz, July 29, 2019

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ralph Schultz. Schultz joined the Marine Corps in in late 1942. He completed radio/telephone school. He joined the 3rd Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO), and was shipped to Guadalcanal and assigned to Headquarters 3rd Marine Division. In July of 1944, they participated in the Battle of Guam. As part of JASCO, Schultz helped coordinate and control naval gunfire and close air support of landings on the island. After receiving in… more
Date: July 29, 2019
Duration: 59 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Schultz, Ralph
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Dale Perry, October 29, 2019

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Dale Perry. Perry joined the Navy at seventeen in August, 1943 before finishing high school. After basic training, he went to various schools to learn about torpedo operations before going to motor torpedo boat school in Rhode Island. He shipped to the Mediterranean Sea area and was assigned to PT-309. He shares several anectdotes about his time aboard the vessel. In 2020, Perry visiteed the museum and was allowed to go aboard hi… more
Date: October 29, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Perry, Dale
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Kenneth Smith, January 29, 2020

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Kenneth Smith. Smith joined the Navy and was in boot training when the war ended. After training, he was assigned to USS Rutland (APA-192). He recalls a few anecdotes about being aboard ship, seeing part of Japan and hauling troops home after the war. Smith shares some of his Christian testimony and entered the seminary after returning to college after the war.
Date: January 29, 2020
Duration: 47 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Smith, Kenneth
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Lynch, March 29, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Lynch. Lynch joined the Army in May of 1945. He completed basic training at Fort Hood, Texas in September. He learned how to drive Army trucks, and qualified as a marksman. In October, he was transferred to Fort Ord in California. Lynch shares details of his training, and his travels to and through California. He deployed to Nagasaki, Japan and served with the 32nd Infantry Division occupation forces. He returned to the US… more
Date: March 29, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Lynch, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Paul Hatgil, April 29, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Paul Hatgil. Hatgil joined the Army Air Forces after working briefly in the defense industry. He received communications training and was assigned to the 505th Bombardment Group. On Tinian, he oversaw the teletype office adjacent to General Curtis LeMay. He recalls seeing the Enola Gay heavily guarded by Marines. Although at the time he was unaware of the atomic bomb, an important message arrived for LeMay, sent to the telet… more
Date: April 29, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Hatgil, Paul
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Goolsby, April 29, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Goolsby. Goolsby was born in Winters, Texas on 29 March 1922 and graduated from high school in 1939. Upon joining the Army in 1941, he underwent basic training at Fort Bliss, Texas. He was assigned to the Army Medical Corps and received training as a medical technician. In 1943 he was sent to Louisiana where he was trained in malaria control. After completion of the training he was assigned to an eleven-man Army Malar… more
Date: April 29, 2015
Duration: 49 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Goolsby, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Raymond Bunfill, May 29, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Raymond Bunfill. Bunfill went into the Army in September, 1944 and trained at Camp Fannin, Texas. He landed on Leyte in late March where he was assigned to the 108th Infantry Regiment, 40th Infantry Division. While in the Philippines, Bunfill served on Leyte, Mindanao and Panay during operations to clear Japanese resistance. When the war ended, he travelled with his unit to Korea for occupation duty. When the division was se… more
Date: May 29, 2015
Duration: 52 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Bunfill, Raymond
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Irma Ashenbrenner, June 29, 2015

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Irma L. Ashenbrenner. Ashenbrenner was born 26 September 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She joined the WAVES in 1943. She attended boot camp at the U.S. Naval Training Center (WR) at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York. While at boot camp she attended radio classes. Following that she was sent for six months for more advanced instruction at the Navy Radio Training School at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. There she … more
Date: June 29, 2015
Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Ashenbrenner, Irma
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 John Goodenough, July 29, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Goodenough. Goodenough was born in Jena, Germany in 1922 to American parents. After being educated in private schools, he attended Yale University receiving his degree in 1944. He entered the United States Army Air Forces in 1943. He was commissioned, after being trained as a meteorologist and was sent to Newfoundland. He worked on weather predictions prior to the Normandy landing. He later served in the Azores. Followi… more
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Goodenough, John
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Carl Stevens, August 29, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Carl Stevens. Stevens joined the U.S. Army Air Forces Aviation Cadet College Reserve April 1943. He was in the Air Training Command. He served as an Aviation Cadet. He went to Kessler Field in Mississippi for training, then on to Memphis State College for college training. Then he moved on to Scott Field, Illinois to learn radio operator mechanics. He moved on and while in the middle of B-29 flight engineer school the war in… more
Date: August 29, 2016
Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Stevens, Carl
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Kenny, July 29, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Kenny. Kenny joined the Army Air Forces in August 1942. He completed airplane mechanic training at Dallas Aviation School in Texas, and gunnery school in Las Vegas, Nevada. Beginning I 1944, Kenny served as a B-17 Flight Engineer with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. They tracked weather in the North Atlantic between North America and Europe, benefitting the European Theater of Operations. Their squadron was coine… more
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 36 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Kenny, Robert
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 Charles Carpenter, January 29, 1989

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles Carpenter. Carpenter served aboard USS South Dakota (BB-57), going aboard in early 1942. He was assigned to a 20mm gun. He shares several anecdotes about his experiences aboard the ship. He discusses the Battle of Santa Crus Islands and night action of Guadalcanal.
Date: January 29, 1989
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Carpenter, Charles
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Lewis Asher, September 29, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Lewis Asher. Asher was born 24 December 1919, in Maywood, Illinois. He graduated from high school in 1937 and was drafted into the Army on 10 December 1941. After basic, he was assigned to the 125th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division as company clerk in the Headquarters company. The regiment was stationed in California and responsible for the defense of the coastline. Asher took the tests for warrant officer and was p… more
Date: September 29, 2009
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Asher, Lewis
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Harold Fleming, September 29, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Harold Fleming. Fleming joined the Navy in 1943. He completed Radio School and served as a radio operator aboard the USS Drew (APA-162), beginning October of 1944. They transported troops to and from Saipan, Guam and Japan. He was discharged in late 1945.
Date: September 29, 2002
Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Fleming, Harold
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Fiske Hanley, September 29, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Fiske Hanley, II. Hanley was born in Brownwood, Texas in 1920. He graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1943, and joined the Army Air Forces. Completing an advance engineering course at Harvard University he was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the 504th Bombardment Group as a B-29 flight engineer. Hanley and crew flew to Tinian and began bombing missions over Japan… more
Date: September 29, 2002
Duration: 53 minutes 01 second
Creator: Hanley, Fiske
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Louis Jendrusch, March 29, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Louis Jendrusch. Jendrusch joined the Navy in mid-1941 and trained in San Diego as a radioman. He was then assigned to Patrol Bombing Squadron 206 (VPB-206) and travelled with that outfit to Panama to patrol for U-boats around the Panama Canal. Jendrusch recalls several anecdotes, including leave in Jamaica, patrolling in the Pacific and the Caribbean, and aspects about the PBM Mariner aircraft. Jendrusch was transferred out of t… more
Date: March 29, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Jendrusch, Louis
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John Geary, August 29, 2006

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John V. Geary. Geary joined the Army Air Forces in February of 1942, and received training as an aircraft electrical specialist at Chanute Airforce Base in Rantoul, Illinois. He worked on the AT-17, AT-9 and B-29 engines, propellers and electrical systems. Geary was assigned as a B-29 crew chief with the 355th Bomb Squadron, 331st Bomb Group, 315th Air Wing. Their plane was titled Slicker Four. In late 1944, he went to Guam. He d… more
Date: August 29, 2006
Duration: 43 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Geary, John
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Evans, April 29, 2004

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Evans. Evans joined the Marine Corps in June of 1940. He was deployed to Pearl Harbor in September, and stationed at Naval Air Station Kaneohe. Evans helped put the station into commission in February of 1941. He was on watch at the station when the Japanese attacked. He shares memories of rescuers working to get to crewman aboard USS Oklahoma. Evans served with the 6th Marine Regiment. Beginning in January of 1943, he part… more
Date: April 29, 2004
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Evans, James
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Fred Bergeron, April 29, 2004

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Fred Bergeron. Bergeron joined the Navy in 1940 and was trained as a radioman. He joined VB-3 and served on SBDs. Bergeron was attached to the USS Saratoga (CV-3). Bergeron describes his observations flying over the recently attacked Pearl Harbor. He was then attached to the Enterprise (CV-6) and helped screen the task force that launched the Doolittle Raid. Bergeron then joined the USS Yorktown (CV-5) for the Battle of Midw… more
Date: April 29, 2004
Duration: 59 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Bergeron, Fred
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Sam H. Snoddy, April 29, 2004

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Sam H. Snoddy. He served in the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment 2nd Marine Division. After training, he participated in the initial landing at Saipan where he was wounded in the knees and shoulder on the beach by shell fragments. He was loaded onto a hospital ship with several other casualties before returning to Hawaii to recuperate. He participated in the Okinawa campaign and spent time at Nagasaki on occupation duty. A… more
Date: April 29, 2004
Duration: 43 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Snoddy, Sam H.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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