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Oral History Interview with Harry Gill, November 19, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Harry Gill. Gill joined the Army Air Forces in January of 1942. After basic training, he traveled to New Guinea for additional training in jungle fighting and helped build a sawmill, officers housing and the mess hall. He describes his 3 years living and working in the jungle. He was transferred to the other side of the mountains in New Guinea, to a town called Finschhafen, where he served as an airplane mechanic. He worked on B-… more
Date: November 19, 2009
Creator: Gill, Harry
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Ivan Toller, November 19, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Ivan Toller. Toller joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He provides some details of his experiences in basic training at Brooks Field, San Antonio. He was assigned to the 64th Airbase Squadron. He took a job at Kelly Field in the transit hangar as an assistant crew chief and trained new Army recruits. His outfit was sent to assist in the building of Goodfellow Field in San Angelo. He describes the changes that occurred in the Army… more
Date: November 19, 2014
Creator: Toller, Ivan
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Cecil Warner, November 19, 2014

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Cecil Warner. Warner entered the Army Air Forces in February 1942. He trained and served as an airplane mechanic. He was stationed in Africa and shares a few anecdotes. He returned to the US and was discharged in October, 1945.
Date: November 19, 2014
Creator: Warner, Cecil
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Richard Youngs, November 19, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Richard Youngs. Youngs joined the Navy and was sent to gunnery school. He was then assigned to USS LST-290. Youngs describes getting sea-sick and a collision with a civilian ship in which he was injured. He was reassigned to the commissioning crew of USS LST-947. Youngs describes his duties as a coxswain including an incident where he received a speeding ticket at Pearl Harbor in his LCVP. He discusses how his ship carried e… more
Date: November 19, 2011
Creator: Youngs, Richard
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Cleon Conwell, November 19, 2005

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Cleon Conwell. Conwell joined the Army Air Force in December of 1943. His unit was the 487th Bomb Group. He served as a tail gunner and flew five missions total. In September of 1944 he traveled to England in a B-17. He describes his time in England and life at the base. He shares one mission where his plane was shot down, which he received a purple heart. In October of 1944 Conwell was captured and became a prisoner of war in Ge… more
Date: November 19, 2005
Creator: Conwell, Cleon
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Bruce VanDerWeele, November 19, 2004

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Bruce VanDerWeele. VanDerWeele was drafted into the Army in 1941. He was assigned to the Headquarters Battery, 3rd Coast Artillery. He graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Washington, Maryland as a second lieutenant. He was then sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi and taught classes in an Army Administration School. In 1943 VanDerWeele was sent to Hawaii and continued serving as a teacher at an Administration School. Upon… more
Date: November 19, 2004
Creator: VanDerWeele, Bruce
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Edmund Russell, November 19, 2013

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Edmund Russell. Russell joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He was stationed at Wheeler Field in Hawaii, serving in the mess hall and with a fatigue unit, assisting with ditch digging, garbage hauling and other manual labor. Russell was in Hawaii during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He later completed Navigator School and served as an A-26 Bombardier/Navigator in India and China, supporting Chinese nationalists. Russell returned to … more
Date: November 19, 2013
Creator: Russell, Edmund
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Leslie Collins, November 19, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Leslie Collins. Collins joined the Army in 1942. He completed eight weeks of infantry training and then traveled to Australia and New Guinea with the 41st Division and participated in eleven beach landings. While overseas he volunteered to serve as a combat medic, though having had little training. He provides some details of combat in the jungles of New Guinea, the natives and the materials he used as a medic on the island. Coll… more
Date: November 19, 2008
Creator: Collins, Leslie
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Herbert Hinckley, November 19, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Herbert Hinckley. Hinckley joined the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Upon completion of radio school he was assigned to USS LST-391. Shuttling supplies between Oran and Tunisia, he survived extensive bombings which haunted him for some time after the war. At Sicily, with Army Air Forces paratroopers caught in friendly fire, Hinckley frantically relayed a ceasefire message to an unsympathetic captain who was more conc… more
Date: November 19, 2008
Creator: Hinckley, Herbert
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Joseph Cook, November 19, 2007

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Joseph Cook. Cook joined the Navy. He completed submarine chaser training in Miami, Florida with the Donald Duck Navy. Cook served aboard the USS Phantom (AM-273). They escorted a cargo ship to Halifax, Nova Scotia. He provides some details of life aboard the minesweeper. He was later transferred to USS YMS-267 in Hawaii. He shares some of his stories living in Hawaii. They traveled to Kobe, Japan and swept mines for six months. … more
Date: November 19, 2007
Creator: Cook, Joseph
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Lyle Bradley, November 19, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Lyle Bradley. Bradley was born in Key West, Iowa on 22 November 1924. After graduating from the University of Dubuque, in 1942 he joined the Navy and went to Aberdeen, South Dakota where he began his initial pilot training. He was stationed at several airfields and flew various aircraft prior to going to Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida where he received his wings in April 1944. After taking advanced training in the F4F … more
Date: November 19, 2009
Creator: Bradley, Lyle
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Max C. Duncan, November 19, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Max Duncan. Duncan was born in Avondale, North Carolina on 17 June 1921. After graduating from high school he attended The Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina for a year before entering the US Naval Academy. He graduated from Annapolis in December 1941. He points out that, at that time, every newly commissioned officer had to go to sea before they could specialize. Duncan was assigned as a gunnery officer on the USS Milwa… more
Date: November 19, 2009
Creator: Duncan, Max C.
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Harold Scott, November 19, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Harold Scott. Scott was born in San Antonio, Texas on 17 April 1922. Upon joining the Navy on 8 December 1941, he went to the San Diego Naval Training Station for three weeks of boot training. When completed, he was assigned to the USS New Orleans (CA-32). He was assigned as a gunner on a 20mm deck gun even though he had not received any gunnery training. He experienced various combat situations including participation in th… more
Date: November 19, 2009
Creator: Scott, Harold
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation

Oral History Interview with Edwin Bullian, November 19, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Edwin Bullian. Bullian joined the Army Air Corps in October of 1940. He served as a B-26 flight engineer and gunner with the 17th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. He completed 45 missions over North Africa, the islands of Sardinia and Sicily and the Italian mainland. Bullian continued his service after the war ended, retiring as a Master Sergeant in 1960.
Date: November 19, 2002
Creator: Bullian, Edwin
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Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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