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My name is Richard Misenhimer: Today is August 9, 2017. I am interviewing Virginia A. Cumberland at her home at 945 Sanford Road, Rochester, IN 46975. Her telephone number is 574-847-7142. This interview is in support of the National Museum of the Pacific War, the Nimitz Education and Research Center for the preservation of historical information related to World War II. Virginia is telling me about her brother, who was in World War II. Mr. Misenhimer: Virginia, explain to me. Show me some pictures here and tell me what they are. What's this picture, Virginia. Ms. Cumberland: Why this would be at Fort Riley, Kansas and that is my brother's buddy on the horse and that is my mother standing beside the horse. Some of those I don't know. That would all be at Fort Riley, Kansas, about 1943. Mr. Misenhimer: This was a group of people. Ms. Cumberland: A group, yes. That is my brother, Gene Cummings, standing beside his horse. That's my brother in his riding outfit and he's saluting. He was always doing a lot of saluting. Mr. Misenhimer:
He's got on his riding boots and his jodhpurs on so he looks like a real soldier. Ms. Cumberland: This is Gene in World War II sitting on his jeep and the jeep's name was "Happy." Mr. Misenhimer: OK. Looks like a GPW, jeep, right.
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Virginia Cumberland. During World War II, Cumberland worked in a factory in Indiana as a tool and die maker. She also speaks some about a brother of hers that was in the service and stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas and served overseas in France.
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Cumberland, Virginia.Oral History Interview with Virginia Cumberland, August 9, 2017,
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August 9, 2017;
Fredericksburg, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1607159/m1/2/:
accessed June 20, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.