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Oral History Interview with Glen Parker, May 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Glen Parker. Parker was born on 28 March 1919 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. He was drafted into the Army in March 1941. His basic training was at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. From there he was sent to Camp Livingston, Louisiana and assigned to the 32nd Division, 120th Artillery, Company C. From Louisiana, his unit was sent to Macon, Georgia, then to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and finally sailed from San Francisco to Australia in April… more
Date: May 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Parker, Glen
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Tom Gillespie, May 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Tom Gillespie. Gillespie joined the Navy and went right to radio school because he was already a radio technician ion civilian life. He was assigned to Special Task Air Group 1 and trained with them to conduct drone strikes on Japanese targets. When he went overseas, he was based at Banika Island, near Pavuvu in the Russell Islands. They attempted a few strikes, but nothing ever came of the project, so the unit went back to the U… more
Date: May 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Gillespie, Tom
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Regis Butler, May 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Regis Butler. Butler joined the Army Air Forces in March of 1942. He completed flight training and classes in aircraft structures and mechanics. He worked at Bell Aircraft Plant in Niagara Falls to become familiar with P-39s and completed additional classes at Kelly Field in San Antonio on various phases of engines, controls and instruments. He served as a project engineer with the 5th Air Force, 4th Air Service Command, 13th Air… more
Date: May 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Butler, Regis
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Edward Daniels, May 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Edward Daniels. Daniels was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts 9 February 1921. Upon graduating from high school in 1939, he joined the Navy. Completing boot training at Newport, Rhode Island, he was temporarily assigned to the USS Arkansas (BB-33). He was transferred, as a seaman, to the USS Badger (DD-126). Six months later, he was assigned to the USS Dallas (DD-199) as a quartermaster. Recalling convoy duty in the Atlantic… more
Date: May 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Daniels, Edward B.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Edward Cumbie, July 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Edward Cumbie. Cumbie joined the Army in January of 1943. He completed Officer???s Candidate School in May of 1943, earning a commission as a second lieutenant. He began training in the Army Air Forces in November of 1943. He provides details of his pilot training, including glider training in Lubbock, Texas. He graduated in the fall of 1944. Their glider pilot training was in preparation for an airborne crossing of the Rhine Riv… more
Date: July 21, 2008
Duration: 2 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Cumbie, Edward
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with William Jones, August 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Jones. Jones joined the Army Air Forces in July of 1944. He shares a few anecdotes about basic training and went to aerial photography school as well as aerial gunnery school. Before he was assigned to a B-29 crew, the war ended. Jones was sent to Japan on occupation duty. While there, Jones visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki and was able to take aerial photographs in January, 1946. He returned to the US in August and was dis… more
Date: August 21, 2008
Duration: 2 hours 29 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Jones, William
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, January 21, 2008

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Glenn E. McDuffie. He begins by talking about how he lied about his age to join the Navy at 15, describes boot camp, becoming an Armed Guard on merchant ships transporting supplies across the Atlantic, being in London while German bombers flew overhead, in Marsellies and Naples soon after those places were liberated and transporting German prisoners out. He then describes how he came to be in Times Square when he heard the Japanese had surrendered and was th… more
Date: January 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: McDuffie, Glenn E.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Vernon Kelly, February 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Vernon Kelly. Kelly joined the Navy in June of 1941. From mid-1941 through March of 1943, he served as a gunner aboard the USS Honolulu (CL-48). They were stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. Beginning in the spring of 1942, they provided escort duty to Australia, Samoa, Alaska and Guadalcanal. They participated in the Battle of Kula Gulf in July of 1943. Kelly was then transferred to the USS Chilton (APA-38), pa… more
Date: February 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Kelly, Vernon
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Paul Hilliard, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Paul Hilliard. Hilliard was 17 years old when he joined the Marine Corps in February 1943. Upon completion of aviation radio and gunnery training, he joined Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 341 (VMSB-341), as an SBD rear-seat replacement. There he had an opportunity to chat with pilot and Yankee infielder Jerry Coleman. En route to Luzon, he was terrified by a typhoon as nearby ammunition barges were being tossed around by the … more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Hilliard, Paul
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Glenn McDole, September 21, 2008

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Glenn McDole. McDole begins with some anecdotes about homesteading in Nebraska with his parents and siblings in the 1930s. In 1940, after finishing high school, McDole enlisted in the Marine Corps. He trained in San Diego and then shipped out to the Philippines aboard the USS Chaumont (AP-5). When he arrived in the Philippines, McDole was assigned to a security detachment at Cavite Navy Yard. McDole describes his experiences during the Japanese invasion of t… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: McDole, Glenn
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Tula Shook, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Mrs. Tula Augusta Hickman Shook. Born in 1929, she discusses life on a farm in Texas during the Great Depression and the war. She talks about learning of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She describes rationing, scrap metal drives, war bonds, and blackouts. She recounts how she met her husband, Leon J. Shook, as the result of corresponding with him while he was serving as a Machinist?s Mate on the USS Colorado. She shares the sto… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 24 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Shook, Tula
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Eleanor Schneider, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Eleanor Schneider. Schneider was born in November of 1932 in New Braunfels, Texas. She grew up in a German-American community, and speaks on some of the difficulties she faced on the homefront during World War II. She speaks about her family history, education and the impact of war on her town. She recalls her family being questioned by the FBI regarding communications they had with relatives in Germany. Schneider speaks of other… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 24 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Schneider, Eleanor
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Jim Tuttle, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Jim Tuttle. Tuttle joined the Army in October of 1940. He served as an infantry Sergeant with Company G, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. He participated in the New Guinea Campaign and the Philippines Campaign. He was discharged in August of 1945.
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Tuttle, Jim
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Jack Ward, September 21, 2008

Description: Transcript of an oral interview with Jack Ward. Ward moved quickly through school and enlisted in the Navy at 17 in March, 1945. He caught scarlet fever in training and was held back. As a result, the war ended while he was still in training. Ward recalls working in an office in the San Francisco Bay Area where orders were typed out. He implies that he wrote his own orders to get aboard a refridgerated merchant vessel hauling cold supplies to various points in the Pacific. Ward recalls several … more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 47 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Ward, Jack
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Ken Wiley, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ken Wiley. Wiley was born in Hillsboro, Texas 18 July 1925 and joined the US Coast Guard in 1942. He underwent basic training at St. Augustine, Florida for six weeks before being sent to landing craft school at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for training in LCVPs. Upon completion of the training he was assigned as a coxswain of a four man boat crew. After arriving in Hawaii he began making practice landing with the 22nd Marine… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 54 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Wiley, Ken
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Harry Akune, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Harry Akune. Akune was born in Turlock, California. He served as a translator and interrogator for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service in the Pacific Theater. The Akune family had 4 brothers, all of whom served in World War II, though two served with the U.S. and two served with Japan. Upon their mother???s death in 1933, the brothers and their father moved to Japan to live with relatives. Once old enough, Harry Akune and… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 2 hours 18 seconds
Creator: Akune, Harry
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Creed Coffee, November 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Creed Coffee. Coffee was in the Army ROTC at Texas Technological College, now Texas Tech in Lubbock, in 1941 and 1942. He was in the Corps of Engineers. He was on active duty beginning June of 1943. He completed Officers Candidate School in June of 1944 and commissioned a second lieutenant. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1327th Engineer General Service Regiment. Coffee served as a platoon leader and worked on a 200-mile se… more
Date: November 21, 2008
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Coffee, Creed
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, January 21, 2008

Description: Interview with Glenn E. McDuffie, an Armed Guard in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He discusses lying about his age in order to join the navy at 15 and his experience in boot camp. He served as an Armed Guard on merchant ships that transported supplies across the Atlantic and remembers being in London while German bombers flew overhead. He transported German prisoners out of Marseilles and Naples shortly after the liberation of those cities. He remembers going to Times Square upon hearing … more
Date: January 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Misenhimer, Richard & McDuffie, Glenn E.
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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Oral History Interview with Al Jowdy, September 21, 2008

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Jowdy. Jowdy enlisted in the Navy in July 1942 at the age of 15, with his parents’ consent. His first assignment was pulling bodies out of sunken ships in Pearl Harbor. At Guadalcanal, his ship was torpedoed. Due to the presence of enemy subs, he could not be rescued initially and spent two weeks floating in a raft. Then he joined a rescue effort to aid the USS Wasp (CV-7), only to be torpedoed again, spending another fou… more
Date: September 21, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Jowdy, Al
Partner: National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation
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