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Oral History Interview with Carlyle Herring, September 21, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Carlyle Herring. Herring joined the Navy after high school, in 1937. His initial assignment was as a boatswain’s mate, in charge of anchors and small boats. Herring was aboard the Enterprise (CV-6) when Pearl Harbor was attacked. While sailing to Wake Island in the weeks before the Pearl Harbor attack, Herring was stationed at an anti-aircraft gun mount as Admiral Halsey announced that he anticipated imminent Japanese aggres… more
Date: September 21, 2007
Duration: 46 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Herring, Carlyle
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Merrill Hofer, September 21, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Merrill Hofer. Hofer joined the Navy in April 1941. He received basic training at Great Lakes and attended aviation radio school at Sand Point. Upon completion, he was assigned to the communications center of the USS Enterprise (CV-6). Hofer lists the many campaigns he participated in aboard the Enterprise, making special note of the Battle of the Stewart Islands. In December 1942 he was assigned to Torpedo Squadron 10 as a … more
Date: September 21, 2007
Duration: 37 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Hofer, Merrill
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert L. Hyde, September 21, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Hyde. Hyde first attempted to join the Navy when he was 17, but was rejected due to his dental health and low weight. In January 1944 he enlisted. As a seaman, Hyde was appointed as storekeeper aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6). He made friends with many onboard, including some of the black officers’ stewards, with whom he was not supposed to mingle. Initially sailing off China, moving between Hong Kong and Singapore, … more
Date: September 21, 2007
Duration: 54 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Hyde, Robert L
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Lee, September 19, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Lee. Lee joined the Navy in 1944 and received basic training in New York. He joined the Seabees and received further training at Camp Endicott. At Port Hueneme he completed combat training. His first assignment was on Guam, where he enjoyed snorkeling in his free time. His main duty was at the warehouse as a forklift driver, or finger lift driver, as he calls it. His unit endured two typhoons, securing their Quonset h… more
Date: September 19, 2007
Duration: 35 minutes 01 second
Creator: Lee, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Harry Lyons, September 21, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Harry Lyons. Lyons joined the Navy in October of 1940. He served briefly aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36) as a machinist mate working in the boiler room. He was then assigned to the Engineering Department aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) from December of 1940 to August of 1944, where he served as Fireman First Class in the boiler room. Lyons describes the intensely hot work in the boiler room, while stationed in the Pacific. The Ent… more
Date: September 21, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Lyons, Harry
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Clifford E. Rice, September 20, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clifford E Rice. Rice dropped out of high school when calls for the draft began. Needing his parents’ permission to join the military, he joined the Navy after his father insisted that he eschew the Marine Corps. Rice was assigned to the destroyer USS Dunlap (DD-384). His first mission involved protecting President Roosevelt on a trip to Kiska, Aleutian Islands. As a mere seaman, Rice was initially stationed at a 40mm gun. I… more
Date: September 20, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 37 seconds
Creator: Rice, Clifford E
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with John W. Bostian, September 20, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John W. Bostian. Bostian joined the service in August 1941 through the V-7 program. He received orders to report to the Naval Academy one day before the attack on Pearl Harbor, as an apprentice seaman. In May 1942 he boarded the USS Arkansas (BB-33) as an ensign in the engineering department and made six round trips across the Atlantic. After a transfer in 1943, he became a plank owner of the USS Franklin (CV-13) as their B … more
Date: September 20, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Bostian, John W
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with William Lockey, September 24, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with William A. Lockey. Lockey was born on 16 June 1920 in Weches, Texas and joined the Navy on 19 July 1941. He was aboard the USS New Orleans (CA-32) at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 when a Japanese aircraft fired on the ship, just missing his head but wounding him slightly. The New Orleans was moored about 300 yards from the USS Arizona (BB-39) and he watched that ship sink. The New Orleans crew hoisted the ammunition, aimed… more
Date: September 24, 2007
Duration: 55 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Lockey, William
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Joseph F. Malleske, September 27, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Joseph Malleske. Malleske enlisted in the Navy in January 1944 at Great Lakes, Illinois and took boot camp there. After boot camp, they sent him down to Norfolk (Camp Bradford) for amphibious training where he got picked up to go to radar school. After that he was formed into a crew for LST duty and sent to Little Creek, Virginia for a two week training cruise on the Chesapeake Bay in a LST. In late May 1944, they sent them … more
Date: September 27, 2007
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Malleske, Joseph F.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Florence Keliher, September 12, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Florence Keliher. Keliher joined the Army as a registered nurse in December 1944 and received basic training at Fort Devens. Her training included a 20-mile hike in sub-zero temperatures. She was assigned to the 27th Station Hospital on Tinian, where she treated casualties from Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She often worked 12-hour days, seven days a week, tending to patients and training corpsmen. In her spare time, she would often… more
Date: September 12, 2008
Duration: 27 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Keliher, Florence
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Marcus R. Neuhaus, September 19, 2005

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Marcus R. Neuhaus. Born in 1917, he was drafted into the Army in March 1942. He describes being processed into the military in Arkansas and then transported by train to Victorville, California. He was assigned to bombardier training school where he issued bombsights along with a stabilizer and a 45-caliber gun to trainees. He describes the secret nature of the equipment. After two and a half years, he was sent to Deming, New Mexico and, later, to San Antonio… more
Date: September 19, 2005
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Neuhaus, Marcus R.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Sam Palermo, September 23, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Sam Palermo. Palermo was born in 1924 in Melrose Park, Illinois. His parents came from Italy in 1902. He was drafted into the Navy in June 1943 and sent to Farragut, Idaho for boot training. Upon finishing, he went to Wahpeton, where he studied engineering at the North Dakota State College of Science for six months. In March 1944 he reported aboard the USS Dennis (DE-405) as a motor machinist in the engine room. The Dennis w… more
Date: September 23, 2007
Duration: 33 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Palermo, Sam
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Peter Hennessey, September 5, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Peter Hennessey. Hennessey attended a West Point prep school and helped his widowed mother run the family business. After earning a business degree at the University of Texas, he enlisted in the Army and became an aviation cadet in September 1941. After earning his wings in April 1942, he became an instructor in Douglas, Arizona. Hennessey flew every model of B-25 produced and was promoted to captain. Hoping to see combat, h… more
Date: September 5, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Hennessey, Peter
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Betty J. Blalock, September 6, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Betty Blalock. Blalock joined the Navy in 1945 and received basic training in Yonkers. She was assigned to the hospital corps and sent to the amputee ward at Quantico. Once a day, an airplane would arrive with amputees whom Blalock would visit and encourage. She remembers them as having good morale. After the war, she was discharged and married a tech sergeant, Hugh Blalock, who went on to serve in the Air Force for 30 years… more
Date: September 6, 2011
Duration: 23 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Blalock, Betty J
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Clyde Combs, September 5, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Clyde Combs. Combs was attending a vocational school when Pearl Harbor was attacked. During his senior year, he worked for a company that manufactured parts for military planes. He was then drafted into the Navy in March 1943 and sent to quartermaster school. Combs then had motor torpedo boat training to study their engines, radio, radar, and gunnery. Upon completion, he was assigned to PT-515 as a quartermaster stationed in… more
Date: September 5, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Combs, Clyde
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Carl Crandall, September 15, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Carl Crandall. Crandall joined the Navy at age 17. After basic training at Great Lakes, he was trained on running ship’s boilers. Crandall was then assigned to USS Warrick (AKA-89) as a third class watertender. While running the boilers, he would occasionally clean the insides, which required holding his breath for up to three minutes. Crandall was in battle zones in the Philippines for a year and suffered hearing damage fro… more
Date: September 15, 2011
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Crandall, Carl
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Dorinda Nicholson, September 17, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dorinda Nicholson. Nicholson was a first-grader living on Pearl City Peninsula at the time of the attack. Japanese planes grazed the trees in her backyard as they began their bombardment, and Nicholson’s father rushed her family to the sugarcane fields perched above the harbor. From that day onward, the island was under martial law and strict rationing. Nicholson saw many locals leave and thousands of soldiers arrive. When t… more
Date: September 17, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Nicholson, Dorinda
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Arnhold Schwichtenberg, September 17, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Arnhold Schwichtenberg. Schwichtenberg joined the Navy in September 1940 and was assigned to the USS Trever (DMS-16). During the attack on Pearl Harbor, he went out on a whale boat and rounded up officers and a substitute captain to help the Trever get underway. He watched torpedoes hit the USS Utah (BB-31) and the USS California (BB-44). He saw a bomb hit the USS Curtiss (AV-4) and saw a bomb intended for the Trever splash … more
Date: September 17, 2011
Duration: 29 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Schwichtenberg, Arnhold
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Philip Nelson, September 2, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Philip Nelson. Nelson enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and attended midshipmen's school at Northwestern University. There he learned Morse code and semaphore signaling. Upon completion, he received landing craft training at Camp Pendleton. In the Pacific, most of his duty was on LSTs and LSDs. Equipped with rockets at Kwajalein, a mechanical mishap resulted in his ship's friendly rocket fire on a nearby vessel. At the invasion o… more
Date: September 2, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Nelson, Philip
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Loy Smith, September 15, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Loy Smith. Smith joined the Navy in 1943 and received basic training in San Diego. He then attended gunnery school and further training in electrical and hydraulic systems. Upon completion, he was assigned to an attack cargo auxiliary ship as a gunner’s mate. Smith recounts that his ship would pick up supplies on New Guinea and Guam and deliver them to invasions. At Lingayen Gulf, there were so many kamikazes and so many shi… more
Date: September 15, 2011
Duration: 39 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Smith, Loy
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Walker, September 16, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Walker. Walker was working as a mail carrier when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He enlisted in the Navy, and despite attending aviation mechanic school he was selected to be an aerial gunner. Walker was assigned to an SBD crew aboard USS Essex (CV-9), flying his first mission over Wake Island and his last over Truk. After 10 months in combat, he transferred to Florida for further training. Walker later put in to become a … more
Date: September 16, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Walker, James
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Frederick M. Bidwell, September 23, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Frederick M. Bidwell. Bidwell joined the Army in 1940 at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was assigned to the 69th Infantry Division and headed for France in mid-1944. He eventually was attached to the 35th Infantry Division and fought in France at the Battle of St. Lo. He also briefly mentions the Battle of the Bulge.
Date: September 23, 2011
Duration: 31 minutes 01 second
Creator: Bidwell, Frederick M.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Reed, September 27, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with James Reed. Reed was drafted and went into the Army 11 Nov 1943. After basic training in Waco, Texas he was sent overseas, landing in England. He was put in a tank destroyer outfit to start with but got separated from them. After a hospital stay, he was put in the 101st Airborne Division, 327th Glider Infantry. He was wounded by shrapnel on 20 Dec 1944 in his right leg during the Battle of the Bulge. He was at Bastogne. Once wounded, he was sent back to Fran… more
Date: September 27, 2011
Duration: 16 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Reed, James L.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert K. Kaufman, September 26, 2011

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Captain Robert K. Kaufman. Kaufman discusses getting nominated to the US Naval Academy in 1936 and describes some experiences he had there. During his years there he went on summer cruises aboard the USS Arkansas (BB-33) and the USS New York (BB-34), visiting Germany in 1937 and again in 1939. Upon graduation, Kaufman reported aboard the USS Wichita (CA-45) as the communcations officer before it steamed for South America. After a few months, he became a gunn… more
Date: September 26, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes
Creator: Kaufman, Robert K.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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