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Oral History Interview with John Craddock, May 11, 2009

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with John Craddock. Craddock joined the Marine Corps in May 1942 and attended boot camp at Parris Island. He soon entered the V-12 program and upon completion returned to Parris Island. After further training at Camp Lejeune, he attended platoon commander’s training at Quantico. He then prepared for the invasion of Japan at Camp Pendleton and Hawaii. After the war ended, he was sent to Guam to flush out Japanese holdouts. He was … more
Date: May 11, 2009
Duration: 36 minutes 01 second
Creator: Craddock, John
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Lincoln Grahlfs, May 11, 2012

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Lincoln Grahlfs. Grahlfs joined the Navy in October 1942 after working at Grumman. Upon completion of boot camp, quartermaster’s school, and visual communications training, he deployed to the Pacific aboard the USS Undaunted (ATA-199). He towed the USS Hugh W. Hadley (DD-774) from Kerama Retto to the States, traveling through a typhoon; after the storm cleared, the tow line parted nine times. After the war, his tug was busy … more
Date: May 11, 2012
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Grahlfs, Lincoln
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Tom English, May 11, 2012

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Tom English. English was born 17 October 1926 in Manhattan, New York. As a 17 year old in 1944, he enlisted in the Navy. After boot camp at the Naval Training Center at Sampson, New York, he went to Treasure Island where he reported aboard USS Hugh Hadley (DD-774) and sailed with a task force headed for Okinawa. Hadley escorted cargo ships during the battle and was eventually assigned picket duty. On 11 May 1945, Hadley shot down… more
Date: May 11, 2012
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: English, Tom
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Frank Boffi, May 11, 2012

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Frank Boffi. Boffi joined the Navy in September 1942 and received basic training in Newport. Boffi was assigned to the USS Bernadou (DD-153) as a machinist???s mate. He participated in the invasions of Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio. In June 1944 he was transferred to Norfolk to oversee the construction of the USS Hugh W. Hadley (DD-774). He joined the ship???s company, working in the engine room. He was badly burned during the … more
Date: May 11, 2012
Duration: 34 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Boffi, Frank
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Martin Weibel, May 11, 2012

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Martin Weibel. Weibel was drafted into the Navy in April of 1944. He served aboard the USS Hugh W. Hadley (DD-774) as a watertender, working with the boilers in the ship???s engine room. He provides some detail of his work and life on board the Hadley. In December of 1944 they traveled to Leyte and Saipan. The Hadley provided escort duty and served on picket duty. Weibel describes a severe attack by enemy aircraft in May of 1945.… more
Date: May 11, 2012
Duration: 54 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Weibel, Martin
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Francis Sheahen, May 11, 2017

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Francis Sheahen. Sheahen joined the Naval Reserve in Chicago as an Apprentice Seaman in 1940. He transferred to the Baltimore Reserve Unit to complete Naval Academy prep school. Upon completion he entered the Academy in April of 1941 and graduated with an engineering degree with the Class of 1945. He provides some detail of his experiences in the Academy. Upon graduation he was commissioned as an ensign. From there he was se… more
Date: May 11, 2017
Duration: 59 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Sheahen, Francis
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Lee Osterloh, May 11, 2004

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Lee Osterloh. Osterloh joined the Army Air Forces in March of 1942. He completed Technical School and served as a Tech Sergeant. He worked in Greensboro, North Carolina for two years. He additionally completed Machine Records School, utilizing an IBM machine with punch cards. In November of 1944, Osterloh deployed to Calcutta, India, maintaining records of planes and cargo flying over the Himalaya Mountains. He returned to the US… more
Date: May 11, 2004
Duration: 56 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Osterloh, Lee
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Roger Goff, May 11, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Roger Goff. Goff joined the Navy on 19 December 1941. He served as Quartermaster aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6). Goff participated in every Enterprise naval battle from February of 1942 through the end of the war. He shares details of his experiences through the battles of Midway, Eastern Solomons and the Philippine Sea. He was honorably discharged in October of 1945.
Date: May 11, 2002
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Goff, Roger
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Richard Russell, May 11, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard Russell. Russell joined the Marine Corps in January of 1942. He was assigned to the 1st Marine Division. They landed on Guadalcanal in late 1942 and completed reconnaissance patrol missions. In September of 1943 they went to New Guinea, where they were staging to invade New Britain in the Battle of Cape Gloucester. Russell was wounded during this battle and transferred to an Army hospital in Brisbane, Australia. No longer… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 46 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Russell, Richard
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James Dodson, May 11, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Dodson. Dodson grew up in Pennsylvania and joined the Navy before being drafted. He managed to avoid boot camp and go straight into a Navy communictions school. He volunteered to go overseas for two years and ended up with SACO in China. In China, Dodson repaired radios and radio equipment. Dodson returned to the US and was assigned duty aboard the USS William R. Rush (DD-714) in mid-1945.
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 54 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Dodson, James
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with F. J. Whitlock, May 11, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with F. J. Whitlock. Whitlock was in 1923, in Columbia, South Dakota. He enlisted in the Navy in Los Angeles, California, in June 1942. He attended Basic Training in San Diego and then went to Diesel School. Upon graduation he was promoted from Seaman Second Class to Fireman First Class. He was then ordered to the LST program and proceeded to Treasure Island in San Francisco. His group of Dieselmen were assigned to the Southern Pacific Railroad "Round House" in O… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Whitlock, F. J.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James F. Kelly, May 11, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with James F. Kelly. Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1921. He recounts his experiences working in his father's grocery store during the Depression. He recounts his experience in 1941 working in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard as a civilian, until he received his induction notice from Selective Service in May 1942 and joined the Navy. He attended Boot Camp in Newport, Rhode Island and then was sent to Anacostia Naval Air Station in District of Colu… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Kelly, James F.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Dean Warner, May 11, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Dean Warner. Born in Geneva, Illinois, June 30, 1922. He went to boot camp in San Diego in 1941. After boot camp he attended Radio School at the University of Colorado followed by training at Signalman School. Upon completion he was assigned to an Armed Guard crew on a Merchant Marine ship as a radioman. He spent a year and a half on merchant vessels and recalls an incident when two nearby ships in his convoy were sunk by submarines. He was next assigned to … more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 21 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Warner, Dean
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Hill, May 11, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Robert Hill. Born on a farm north of Des Moines, Iowa in 1922. He enlisted in the Navy at the age of 19 in 1942. He trained at the National School of Electronics in Chicago as a Radio Technician and on to Great Lakes, Illinois for basic training. After boot camp he was sent to Radioman School in Wisconsin and Signalman School in Los Angeles. He was then assigned to the Armed Guard crew aboard a merchant tanker, the SS Vermont, as a Radioman. He describes car… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 46 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Hill, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Norman Dike, May 11, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral inerview with Norman Dike. Born in Atlanta, Illinois, on April 18, 1923. Enlisted in the Navy on March 12, 1942 and was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois for recruit training. He was sent to Radioman School at the University of Idaho on May 25, 1942. Upon completion in August, as a Third Class Radioman, he was sent to Bainbridge Island, Washington to learn Japanese code. He recalls meeting Merry Miles, the second in command at SACO, at a party he gave for the SACO team at a Ch… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 44 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Dike, Norman
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Robert Clark, May 11, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Robert Clark. Born in Colby, Kansas Clark joined the Navy in San Diego in 1940. Before completion of the training he was assigned to the USS Tennessee (BB-43) in Pearl Harbor. He recounts various training missions over the following months, including gunnery exercises. He recounts relaxing in the turret of one of the 14-inch guns during the morning of December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked. He describes the efforts made by him and other sailors to extri… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Clark, Robert
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with George Allen Barrett, May 11, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with George Allen Barrett. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in January 1922, he enlisted in the Navy in January 1940. He completed Recruit Training in San Diego and was transferred to the Hospital Corps School at the Naval Hospital San Diego in April 1940. Upon graduation in July 1940, he was assigned to the Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In July 1941 he was transferred to the USS McDonough (DD 351) where he recalls that on the morning of December 7, 1941,… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Barrett, George Allen
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Joseph D. Keenan, May 11, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview of Joseph D. Keenan. Raised in Chicago, he spent two years at Notre Dame University and when the war started, volunteered for Naval Aviation duty. Following Pre-flight School at Iowa University, he attended flight training at Naval Air Station, Chicago, where he was later diagnosed with chronic air sickness. He was disenrolled and entered the V-12 program at the University of Wisconsin. Upon graduation in September 1944, he was commissioned and ordered to Fort Pi… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Keenan, Joseph D.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with James H. Bash, May 11, 2001

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with James H. Bash. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, June 28, 1924. He enlisted in the Navy on January 19, 1943. Enrolled in the V-12 Program at the University of Virginia but did not complete the curriculum. Subsequently sent to Storekeeper Class A School in Sampson, New York and graduated as Storekeeper 3rd Class. In October 1944 volunteered and assigned to Naval Group China. He recalls the transit from Norfolk on the USS General W. A. Mann (AP-112) in a con… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Bash, James H.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Perry Simmons, April 23, 2003

Description: Interview with Perry Simmons, a seaman in the US Navy during WWII. He answers questions about his time in the military during the war.
Date: May 11, 2004
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 32 seconds
Creator: McElhaney, Michelle & Simmons, Perry
Partner: Lee College
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