Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Oldberg, Nils The Depression to the Navy
[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...
Fisher, Clayton The Doolittle Raid
Clayton Fisher volunteered to fly an SB2A Brewster [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer scout bomber] and lead...
Wingo, Hugh The Doolittle Raid
Hugh Wingo was shipped to Tokyo, Japan. The carrier was in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] picking...
Jackson, James The Draft, Training, and Service
James Thomas Jackson was 15 years old and in high school when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...
Parra, Pedro The End of the War and Postwar Service
Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...
Dietzel, Paul The Enola Gay and Lead Pilot Training
There were four parallel 9,000 foot runways [Annotator's Note: on Tinian]. Paul Dietzel's group was at the far end. One...
Blackwell, Astley The F4F and Loss of the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)
[Annotator's Note: Astley Blackwell was a plane captain servicing Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS...
Bourgeois, Henry "Hank" The F4U Corsair, Charles Lindbergh and Wrecked Aircraft in Lake Michigan
[Annotator's Note: Henry Bourgeois served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft with Marine...
Riedl, Edward The Filipinos
Edward Riedl thought the people [Annotator's Note: he is referring to the people on Leyte, Philippines] seemed...
Billingsley, James The Filipinos
James Billingsley worked with Filipino forces. He was in the middle of it, and was pulled out. There was a Filipino...
Renstrom, Keith The First Few Days on Iwo Jima
When Keith Renstrom went to Iwo Jima he fought well because the excitement was not there. He functioned better as a...
Geiger, John The First Mission
John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: a member of the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit known as the Alamo Scouts]...
Kelley, Archie The First Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear reactors were very crude things [Annotator's Note: when Archie Kelley started studying nuclear physics at the...
Peto, George The Future
George Peto served with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World...
Blackwell, Astley The Future Depends on the Past
Astley Blackwell feels that it is very important for students to learn about World War 2. There is a museum at the base...
Taylor, Claude The G.I. Bill and Service During the Korean War
Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...
Norberg, Willard "Bill" The Great Depression
In 1929, Bill Norberg's father lost his job due to the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a...
Duff, Clarence The Great Depression to the Invasion of Saipan
Clarence Robert Duff was born in 1923 in the farm country of North Dakota. He was one of nine children. His family was...
Caraway, John The Great Typhoon
There was ongoing correspondence with people back home, and John Caraway was able to keep abreast of what was going on...
Raquepau, John The Grumman Avenger
John "Jack" Raquepau and his group [Annotator's Note :Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), Air Group 51, USS San Jacinto (CVL-...
Lents, Robert The Guards and the Guarded
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...
Hoff, Donald The Hiryu Carrier at Midway
Donald Hoff's [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in...
Love, John The Horrors of Camp O’Donnell
After the fifth day on the march in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer by the...
Hatch, Norman The Importance of Oral Histories
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Norman Hatch in conversation with the interviewer.] Hatch used to show...
Henleben, Edwin The Invasion of Attu
Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...
Mayer, Philip The Invasion of Okinawa
Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...
Wayne, William The Iwo Jima Flag Raisers
William Wayne says Bradley [Annotator's Note: US Navy Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John Henry Bradley, known as “Jack”...
Severance, Dave The Iwo Jima Flag Raisers and Rebuilding His Battalion
Dave Severance recalls some of the Japanese soldiers continuing to fight against the Army relief units and some even...
Witaker, Richard "Dick" The Japanese
Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...
Sullivan, George The Japanese Leave the Camp
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was a prisoner of war held at the Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp in Sandakan,...
Lafleur, Richard The Japanese People
Richard Lafleur [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty with 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division] got acquainted...
Nordstrom, Clyde The Japanese People
Clyde Nordstrom did a lot of sightseeing in Japan. He visited a Shinto temple and just roamed around. He thought the...
Wells, Kenneth The Japanese Soldier and Okinawans
When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...

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