DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY AUDIOVISUAL DEPARTMENT World War II Participants Video Oral History Interviews
EL-VOH-WWII-1 Interviewee: Robert Charles Bracken; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Laura Daniella Hauge Date of Interview: January 14, 1997 Format: VHS TRT: 1:19:35
Subjects: Battle of the Bulge; POW camp.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-2 Interviewee: Don Raley; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Jack Ford Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS TRT: 0:17:46
Subjects: European Theater of Operations.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-3 Interviewee: Genevieve Boyce; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: J. Wilford Boyce Date of Interview: January 26, 1997 Format: VHS TRT: 0:39:31
Subjects: Army; Fort Benning, Georgia; New Guinea; Philippines
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-4 Interviewee: John G. Waddell; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Ryan Sears Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS TRT: 0:15:27
Topics discussed: Medic in Philippines.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-5 Interviewee: Bill Hyatt; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Travis Rakes Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS TRT: 0:15:43
Subjects: European Theater of Operations.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-6 Interviewee: Jack Stephenson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Jon Stacy Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS TRT: 1:09:38
Subjects: The 2nd Division; D-Day; wounded.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-7 Interviewee: William L. Ruggles; Interviewer: Joy Russell Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS (Picture quality is poor) TRT: 0:29:53
Subjects:
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-8 Interviewee: Lucy W. Rimbach; Talihira, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe L. Todd Date of Interview: May 14, 1999 Format: VHS (Picture quality is poor) TRT: 0:29:04
Subjects:
EL-VOH-WWII-9 Interviewee: Betty Cramp; Gale, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:08:15
Subjects: Pearl Harbor; tin cans; home front; rationing and air raid drills.
This interview was conducted at the Chilocco Indian School reunion.
Interviewee: Frank Henry; Philadelphia, Mississippi Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:16:08
Subjects: Camp Blandin; Florida; European Theater of Operations; concentration camps.
This interview was conducted at the Chilocco Indian School reunion.
Interviewee: Rosalie Byers Imotochey; Sulfur, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:24:13
Subjects: Pearl Harbor; Douglas Aircraft; home front; Hiroshima.
This interview was conducted at the Chilocco Indian School reunion.
Interviewee: Lewis H. Swindler Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 1:01:12
Subjects: USS Saratoga; average onboard ship; Australia.
This interview was conducted at the Chilocco Indian School reunion.
EL-VOH-WWII-10 Interviewee: Charles B. Laughlin; Helotes; Texas & Don Robertson; Wagoner, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:26:23
Subjects: War effort; V-J Day; 82nd Airborne.
This interview was conducted at the Chilocco Indian School reunion.
Interviewee: Mose Parris Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:19:50
Subjects: Louisiana maneuvers; boot camp at Great Lakes; USS Mount Vernon; USS Oklahoma.
Interview was conducted at the Chilocco Indian School reunion.
Interviewee: Cecil James; Fort Gobson, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:16:17
Subjects: North Africa; Korea.
This interview was conducted at the Chilocco Indian School reunion.
Interviewee: Jeff Bean; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:24:52
Subjects: Coast Guard; German POWs; security at Panama Canal; Korea.
This interview was conducted at the Chilocco Indian School reunion.
EL-VOH-WWII-11
Interviewee: William F. White; Kingfisher, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:38:14
Subjects: CCC program; enlistment in the Navy; USS Tucson; Horoshima; hurricane.
EL-VOH-WWII-12 Interviewee: Henry Starr Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:13:41
Subjects:
Interviewee: Joe Smith Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: 1999 Format: VHS TRT:
Subjects:
Interviewee: Atha Meig; Park Hill, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 12, 1999 Format: VHS TRT:
Subjects: Trip to France; victory ship; Metz, France; radio; Statue of Liberty.
EL-VOH-WWII-13 Interviewee: Glen Murray; Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 11, 1999 Format: VHS (Picture quality is poor) TRT: 1:01:53
Subjects: Gunnery school; parachute training; POW camp; how men escaped from camp.
Interviewee: Mary Louis Nichols; Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 2, 1999 Format: VHS (Picture quality is poor TRT: 0:11:37
Subjects: Shorthand & typing; V-E Day
EL-VOH-WWII-14 Interviewee: M.D. Wickware; Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 2, 1999 Format: VHS (Picture quality is poor) TRT: 0:36:11
Subjects: Drafted; 17th Airborne Division; Fort Bragg.
Interviewee: Ples Davis; Pauls Valley, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 2, 1999 Format: VHS (Picture quality is poor) TRT: 0:51:03
Subjects: Louisiana Maneuvers; USS Uraguay; trip to Europe; North Africa; invasion of Sicily; Korea.
EL-VOH-WWII-15 Interviewee: James William Stapleton; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joey McNair Date of Interview: January 9, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0:54:24
Subjects: 97th Infantry.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-16 Interviewee: Johanna Van Veen; Purcell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0:53:37
Subjects: Dutch underground; saving a pilot; Statue of Liberty.
Interviewee: Sidney M. Metcalf; Purcell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0:35:19
Subjects: Los Angeles recruiting office; mobile radar unit; Hawaii to Guam; USO; Iwo Jima; Hiroshima.
EL-VOH-WWII-17 Interviewee: Pauline Rodke; Paoli, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0:16:01
Subjects: Homefront; blackouts; Eisenhower.
Interviewee: Laura Thompson Calvert Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0:13:25
Subjects: Home front; victory gardens; rationing; writing to soldiers; Naval base at Purcell.
Interviewee: Wes Cavnar; Byars, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 1:24:08
Subjects: Gunnery school; USS Riddle; shakedown cruise; Pearl Harbor; Iwo Jima; Okinawa.
EL-VOH-WWII-18 Interviewee: Carolyn Breeden; Purcell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0:19:46
Subjects: Rationing; USO.
Interviewee: Joyce A. Rex; Purcell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0:07:11
Subjects: Writing.
Interviewee: Laura Standerfer; Purcell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0:11:41
Subjects: Sheetmetal wokers; USO; Douglas Aircraft.
Interviewee: Opal Kerbo Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0;14:01
Subjects:
Interviewee: Cecile Dobelbower; Purcell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 29, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 0:11:05
Subjects: Homefront; rationing; paper drives; war mother; clothes.
EL-VOH-WWII-19 Interviewee: Gene Haff; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 25, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:52:01
Subjects:
EL-VOH-WWII-20 Interviewee: Bert Benear; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 28, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:12:37
Subjects: Air Corps; Flight Training; 526th Squadron, 86th Fighter Bomb Group; Italy
EL-VOH-WWII-21 Interviewee: Howard Morrison; Bartlesville , Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 28, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:23:37
Subjects: Navy; North Africa; England; D-Day; Naval Ammunition Depot, McAlester, Oklahoma
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-22 Interviewee: Lyle Russell; Ocholata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 21, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:13:28
Subjects: Battle of the Bulge; 106th Division; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-23 Interviewee: Pat Frank Kilpatrick; Jennings, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 4, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:42:56
Subjects: Pacific Theater; USS Purdy
EL-VOH-WWII-24 Interviewee: John Blue; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 13, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:09:33
Subjects: CCC; Army; Basic Training – Camp Swift, Texas; 146th Engineers; France; D- Day; Omaha Beach; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-25 Interviewee: Robert Barrigan; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 14, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:06:35
Subjects: USS Tangler; Pearl Harbor
Additional Material: Copy of Article
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-26 Interviewee: Truman Thomas; Oklahoma City , Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 9, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:06:52
Subjects: 391st Bomb Group; Camp Lucky Strike
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-27 Interviewee: Homer Thompson; Moore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 8, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:29:02
Subjects: 84th Division; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-28 Interviewee: Oleta Kite; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:27:09
Subjects: Work in shipyard; meeting husband
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-29 Interviewee: Edgar Simpson; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 2000 Format: VHS TRT: 1:36:10
Subjects:
EL-VOH-WWII-30 Interviewee: Bob Thompson; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 3, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:48:04
Subjects: Fort Sill; 132nd FA-36th; Anzio
EL-VOH-WWII-31 Interviewee: Lucille Walden George Walden, Sr.; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 4, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:11:31
Subjects: Dustbowl; Pearl Harbor; Riveter on B-24s
EL-VOH-WWII-32 Interviewee: Leland Finley; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 3, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:23:48
Subjects: 106th Division; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-33 Interviewee: Gilbert Turner; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 3, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:36:48
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; B-24; France; Germany; POW; Stalag 4
EL-VOH-WWII-34 Interviewee: Jesse James Brashers; Chelsea, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 4, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 2:01:48
Subjects: B-17 pilot; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-35 Interviewee: Charles Clint McClure; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 4, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:57:49
Subjects: 106th Division; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-36 Interviewee: Elizabeth Cramer; Gutherie, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 30, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:49:19
Subjects: Work at Douglas Aircraft plant
EL-VOH-WWII-37 Interviewee: Byron Cook; Rockdale, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 25, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:04:43
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Biloxi, Mississippi; Training; B-17; 351st Bomb Group; England
EL-VOH-WWII-38 Interviewee: Ben Little; Edmond, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:36:35
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; B-17; 447th Bomb Group; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-39 Interviewee: Carter Vaughn; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 10, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 2:02:31
Subjects: 327th Bomb Squadron; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-40 Interviewee: Lloyd Freeman; Norman, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 6, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:35:28
Subjects: Louisiana Maneuvers; gunner on B-17
EL-VOH-WWII-41 Interviewee: Clyde Poche; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 12, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:11:49
Subjects: Bataan; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-42 Interviewee: Ralph Lewis; Sallisau, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 12, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:56:42
Subjects: Bataan; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-43-1--2 Interviewee: Leslie L. Brown; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 13, 2000 Format: Two 8mm TRT: 3:31:27
Subjects: Corregidor; Bataan; POW in Manchuria
EL-VOH-WWII-44 Interviewee: James “Pete” Coon; Norman, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 19, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:03:29
Subjects: Paratrooper with 505th Airborne Infantry; D-Day
EL-VOH-WWII-45 Interviewee: Art Levine; Del City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 22, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:57:54
Subjects: 30th Infantry; Battle of the Bulge; Dachau
EL-VOH-WWII-46 Interviewee: Charles H. Johnson, Jr.; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 23, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:58:26
Subjects: Louisiana Maneuvers; Pearl Harbor; Salerno; Anzio
EL-VOH-WWII-47 Interviewee: Jake McNiece; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 22, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:52:40
Subjects: Army; 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment; D-Day; Battle of the Bulge; “Filthy Thirteen”
EL-VOH-WWII-48 Interviewee: Edwin Curtis Yeary; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 26, 2000 Format: 8mm and reference DVD TRT: 0:33:32
Subjects: 101st Airborne Division
EL-VOH-WWII-49 Interviewee: Virgil Smith; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 26, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:28:24
Subjects: 99th Division; Battle of the Bulge
EL-VOH-WWII-50 Interviewee: Joe J.Williams; Kingfisher, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 4, 1999 Format: VHS TRT: 0:46:41
Subjects: Army Air Corps; POW; Vietnam & Tet 1968
EL-VOH-WWII-51 Interviewee: Lloyd G. Blaine; Midwest City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: Format: 8mm TRT: 0:59:34
Subjects: Louisiana Maneuvers; 45th Signal Company; Munich; V-E Day
EL-VOH-WWII-52 Interviewee: Charles Willits; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 29, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:07:24
Subjects: Louisiana Maneuvers;45th Division; Sicily; Salerno; Anzio
EL-VOH-WWII-53 Interviewee: Constantine L. O’Neill; Mesa, Arizona Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 31, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:16:00
Subjects:45th Division; captured at Salerno; escape attempt
EL-VOH-WWII-54 Interviewee: William Archie Curtis; Muskogee, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 2, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 2:00:15
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Polk, Louisisiana; 192nd Tank Battalion; Clark Field; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell; Cabanatuan Prison; Japan; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-55 Interviewee: Floyd Hays; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 3, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:19:48
Subjects: Infantry MP; escorted Japanese POWs to the U.S.
EL-VOH-WWII-56 Interviewee: William Butler Van Sant; Hoover, Pennsylvania Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:44:58
Subjects: USS Higlands; Iwo Jima; Okinawa
EL-VOH-WWII-57 Interviewee: Richard A. Purdy; Pawtucket, Rhode Island Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 4, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:38:17
Subjects: USS Highlands
EL-VOH-WWII-58 Interviewee: Eugene DePriest Jones, Jr.; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 5, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:49:47
Subjects: German POWs at Camp Wallace; Camp Lucky Strike
EL-VOH-WWII-59 Interviewee: John E. Johnson; Merriam, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 5, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:51:31
Subjects: USS Highlands; Iwo Jima
EL-VOH-WWII-60 Interviewee: Charles William Strebig; Del Mar, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 5, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:24:54
Subjects: USS Highlands, Iwo Jima
EL-VOH-WWII-61 Interviewees: Alvin Dean Fulcomer; Zelienople, Pennsylvania Charles William Strebig; Del Mar, California John E. Johnson; Merriam, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 6, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:40:32
Subjects: USS Highlands
EL-VOH-WWII-62 Interviewee: Elizabeth Sevier; Edmond, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 15, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:58:39
Subjects: D-Day; V-E Day; French Army; Vietnam
EL-VOH-WWII-63 Interviewees: Clyde Martin; Mackinaw, Illinois Lloyd Freeman; Norman, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 16, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:38:32
Subjects: Navigation school
EL-VOH-WWII-64 Interviewee: Raymond J. Hall; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 21, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:23:09
Subjects: USS Makin Island; Iwo Jima; Vietnam
Additional Material: Christmas Program from 1944
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-65 Interviewee: Samuel Chadduck; Gutherie, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 21, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:45:41
Subjects: Camp Cook; North Africa; hedgerows
EL-VOH-WWII-66 Interviewee: Isaac F. Cudle; West Fork, Arkansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 22, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:04:51
Subjects: 45th Division; Anzio; POW; Stalag 12; Little Rock National Guard
EL-VOH-WWII-67 Interviewee: Rudolph Rogers; Hominy, Oklahoma Paul Stone, Sarser, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 22, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:39:47
Subjects: Rudolph Rogers – 160th Artillery, Oklahoma National Guard; Louisiana Maneuvers; 171st Field Artillery, 45th Division; North Africa; Italy; France; Germany; Dachau
EL-VOH-WWII-68 Interviewee: Charles Stueve; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 22, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:52:44
Subjects: 66th Division; Le Harve; Dusseldorf
EL-VOH-WWII-69 Interviewee: Davis A. Duncan; Denver, Colorado Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 22, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:29:56
Subjects: Italy; 45th Division in Korea
EL-VOH-WWII-70 Interviewee: Joseph F. Sahan; Edmond, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 23, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:00:36
Subjects: 179th Infantry; USS Leonard Wood; Sicily; Salerno; Anzio
EL-VOH-WWII-71 Interviewee: Ray W. Harris; Ormond Beach, Florida Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 23, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:21:32
Subjects: Camp Cook, Louisiana; trip to Europe
EL-VOH-WWII-72 Interviewee: Dayton Edie; Louisville, Kentucky Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 23, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:15:39
Subjects: Camp Bowie, Texas; Queen Mary; Elbe River; concentration camp
EL-VOH-WWII-73 Interviewee: Henry F. Teichman; New Smyrna Beach, Florida Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 23, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:09:16
Subjects: 180th Infantry Division; Sicily; Salerno; Anzio; Dauchau
EL-VOH-WWII-74 Interviewee: Emmett R. Steeds, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 23, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:55:29
Subjects: 179th Infantry Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; North Africa; Salerno; Anzio
EL-VOH-WWII-75 Interviewee: Ralph W. Hughes; Wimner, South Dakota Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 24, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:26:02
Subjects: Pearl Harbor; Solomon Islands; Luzon
EL-VOH-WWII-76 Interviewee: Charles G. Harris; Colorado Springs, Colorado Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 24, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:26:49
Subjects: Pearl Harbor; submarine nets; trip to England; D-Day
EL-VOH-WWII-77 Interviewee: Clyde Leroy Todd; Hobbs, New Mexico Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 21, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:57:29
Subjects: CCC; Army; Basic Training – Fort Derussy, Hawaii; 55th Coastal Artillery, Fort Ruger; Pearl Harbor; Tarawa; Leyte Gulf
Additional Material: Copy of WWII-Era Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-78 Interviewee: Otto J. Scheller; Edmond, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 25, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:32:51
Subjects: Pearl Harbor; OCS Air Corps; 409th Bomb Group;V-1 and V-2 rockets; D-Day
EL-VOH-WWII-79 Interviewee: Bryan B. Sterling; New York, New York Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 13, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:12:43
Subjects: Fleeing from Austria to Czechoslovakia; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-80 Interviewee: Bob Vincent; Stillwater, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 1, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:55:24
Subjects: 368th Infantry Division; 458th Bomb Group
Additional Material: Copy WWII-Era Photograph; Copy of Award Announcement for Vincent; Typed Personal Reminiscences; Pre-Prepared Biography; Copy of “A Combat Tour in the 8th Air Force in World War II in a B-24”
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-81 Interviewee: George Hanggi; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 15, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:59:36
Subjects: 1st Infantry Division; Battle of Herken Forest; Battle of the Bulge
EL-VOH-WWII-82 Interviewee: Hurlon Dulan; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 21, 2000 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:11:56
Subjects: Naples; Arno River
EL-VOH-WWII-83 Interviewee: Carl Gonzales; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 3, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 2:03:31
Subjects: Louisiana Maneuvers; Kasserine Pass; Oran; Sicily; Monte Cassino
EL-VOH-WWII-84 Interviewee: Harold Bast; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 15, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:59:33
Subjects: Pearl Harbor; 463rd Bomb Group; raid on Polesti; POW; Stalag 4-B
EL-VOH-WWII-85 Interviewee: Roger Allen; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 10, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:15:21
Subjects: Tail gunner in Army Air Corps; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-86 Interviewee: Wayland Burks; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 10, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:21:29
Subjects: North Africa; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-87 Interviewee: Bill Perkins; Edmond, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 14, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:31:48
Subjects: U.S. Marine Corps; Bouganville; Okinawa
EL-VOH-WWII-88 Interviewee: David Phipps; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 15, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:58:07
Subjects: Basic training in Philippines; average day on Corregidor; surrender of Philippines; trip to Mudged, Manchuria; liberation
EL-VOH-WWII-89 Interviewee: Rex B. Holloway; Arnett, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 17, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:43:29
Subjects: Calcutta, India; muleskinner in Burma
EL-VOH-WWII-90 Interviewee: Vernon Price; Arnett, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 17, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:14:09
Subjects: 106 Infantry Division; Battle of the Bulge; POW
Additional Material: Copy of a Rough Draft of Price’s POW Diary
No Transcript in Folder
EL-VOH-WWII-91 Interviewee: Perry Ross; Arnett, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 17, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:38:42
Subjects: 88th Division; POW; Camp Lucky Strike
Interviewee: Marshall D. Word; Arnett, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 17, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:20:10
Subjects: 88th B-24 pilot; Croatian underground
Additional Material: Copy of Marshall Word’s Memoirs
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-92 Interviewee: Robert Charles Nickels; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 28, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:17:52
Subjects: U.S. Navy gunnery school; radio controlled airplanes; Hiroshima
EL-VOH-WWII-93 Interviewee: Horace C. Jones; Austin, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 1, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:55:10
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Miami, Florida; Training; B-24; Italy; Austria
EL-VOH-WWII-94 Interviewee: Don Raley; Ramona, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 4, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:07:49
Subjects: Oran; Anzio; V-E Day
Additional Material: Copies of Discharge Forms; Copy of Ardennes American Cemetery Map; Copy of Handwritten Notes; Copy of “A Long, Long Way,” a Short Story/Poem; Copy of Photograph of Raley as a Child; Copy of Photograph of Raley’s Brother’s Grave; Copies of Newspaper Articles
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-95 Interviewee: Fred Brooks; Ramona, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 4, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:42:47
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wheeler; 4th Infantry Division; Lindberg, Germany; Stalag IV-B, Muleberg, Germany; POW
EL-VOH-WWII-96 Interviewee: Elwin Kreps; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 12, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:32:13
Subjects: Automotive Mechanic, 2nd Motor Transport, Fort Sill; Air Corps; Training; B- 17; Germany; 447th Bomb Group
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Copy of Diary of Combat Missions
EL-VOH-WWII-97 Interviewee: George H. Carroll; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 1, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:35:05
Subjects: Basic training; 103rd Division; Siegfried Line
EL-VOH-WWII-98 Interviewee: Bob E. Radebaugh; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 4, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:18:04
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 3rd Marine Battalion; New Caledonia; APA-211; 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copy of Photograph from WWII
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-99 Interviewee: 94th Bomb Group Reunion; Seattle, Washington Date of Interview: October1999 Donated by: Ernest T. Muise, Jr. Format: VHS TRT:
Subjects: 94th Bomb Group (Heavy) 8th Air Force, based at Rougham, Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-100 Interviewee: Raymond C. Holler; Copan, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 5, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:17;37
Subjects: North Africa; sinking of USS Rich
EL-VOH-WWII-101 Interviewee: Johnny E. Finney; Collinsville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 16, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:57:00
Subjects: 97th Division; European and Pacific Theaters of Operation; Germany; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; preparing for invasion of Japan
EL-VOH-WWII-102 Interviewee: Willard Lyons; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 16, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:49:26
Subjects: USS Hornet; Jimmy Doolittle; Battle of Midway; sinking of the Hornet
EL-VOH-WWII-103 Interviewee: Bill McCrory; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 29, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:26:24
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS California; Pearl Harbor; USS Astoria; Coral Sea; Midway; Guadalcanal
EL-VOH-WWII-104 Interviewee: Gerald Alexander; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 30, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:55:33
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Radio; 8th Beach Battalion; Oran; Italy; France; POWs; Korean War
EL-VOH-WWII-105 Interviewee: Fima Haimson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 31, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:59:51
Subjects: Civilian in Lithuania; Immigrated to United States; Army; Fort Monmouth; Burma; Detachment 101, OSS
Additional Material: Copies of Photographs from WWII-Era; Copy of Information Sheet for Detachment 101; Copies of Pins/Patches; Copy of Bronze Star Citation; Copy of Article, “The Activities of Detachment 101 of the OSS;” Copy of Poem by Haimson; Typed Personal Reminiscences; Materials from Haimson’s Funeral;
Also includes two video tapes entitled: Stilwell Road and Fort Bragg TV
EL-VOH-WWII-106 Interviewee: Leon Briggs; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 1, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:27:56
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; 324th Regiment, 44th Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; France; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Typed Personal Reminiscences
EL-VOH-WWII-107 Interviewee: Walter Smith; Ada, Oklahoma Interviewer: Josh Green Date of Interview: 2000 Format: VHS TRT: unknown
Subjects: This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-108 Interviewee: Bob Froning; Bixby, Oklahoma Interviewer: Philip Hatchett Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS TRT: unknown
Subjects: Okinawa. This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-109 Interviewee: Don J. Baldrachi; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: David Fooshee Date of Interview: May 12, 2004 Format: VHS TRT: unknown
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; 65th Combat Engineer Regiment; Pearl Harbor; Guadalcanal; 35th Infantry; New Georgia
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-110 (number not assigned) Interviewee: Interviewer: Date of Interview: Format: TRT:
Subjects:
EL-VOH-WWII-111 Interviewee: Claude Brown; The Village, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 15, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:25:12
Subjects: Marines; Camp LeJeune, North Carolina; 3rd Amphibious Fleet; Hawaii; Saipan; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-112 Interviewee: Charles Edward Evans, Jr.; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 1, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:19:30
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Philippines; 41st Division; Okinawa; Hiroshima; 107th Military Government Company
EL-VOH-WWII-113 Interviewee: Vernon Hildabrand; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:24:51
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; YMS-462; Korean War
EL-VOH-WWII-114 Interviewee: Sam Lyke; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 12, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:42:23
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Amarillo Army Air Field; 285th Bomb Group; B- 17; Dresden
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-115 Interviewee: John Powell; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 7, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:31:15
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; 414th Regiment, 104th Infantry Division; Battle of the Bulge; Concentration Camp
EL-VOH-WWII-116 Interviewee: Harold Kight; Owasso, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 12, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:23:11
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Fahnsaw Bay; Saipan; Leyte Gulf
Additional Material: Copy of current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-117 Interviewee: George Jensen; Bartlesville , Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 14, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:54:53
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Carrier Aircraft Service Unit CACSU; USS Lexington; Gilbert Islands; Tarawa; Marshal Islands
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-118 Interviewee: Mel Bonnett, Sr.; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 20, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:48:59
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; 147th Combat Team; New Caledonia; Iwo Jima; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Typed Personal Reminiscences; Copy of Handwritten Notes
EL-VOH-WWII-119 Interviewee: Manford H. Sires; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 20, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:57:28
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; 432nd Fighter Squadron, 5th Air Force; New Guinea; Leyte
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-120 Interviewee: John Kurowski; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 21, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:33:30
Subjects: CCC; Polish Air Force; 8th Air Force
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copies of Photograph from WWII; Copies of Newspaper Articles
EL-VOH-WWII-121 Interviewee: Willie Liddell; Ardmore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 22, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:47:57
Subjects: Oklahoma National Guard; World War I; France; American Home Front
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copies of WWI or WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-122 Interviewee: John Sterling Chambers; Oswalt, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 22, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:09:39
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Carson, Colorado; 3rd Infantry; Mexican Border Patrol; American Home Front
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-123 Interviewee: Clement Gerwing; Calgary, Alberta Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 5, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:32:20
Subjects: Royal Canadian Air Force; Training; 125th Hurricane Squadron; China; India; Burma
Additional Material: Copy of current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-124 Interviewee: A.G. Anderson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 13, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:49:30
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Louisiana Maneuvers; 671st Heavy Artillery Battalion; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-125 Interviewee: Jack Gaffney; Pawhuska, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 29, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:56:04
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Norman, Oklahoma; USS Birmingham; Leyte Gulf; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Nagasaki
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-126 Interviewee: William Darnall; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 18, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:45:00
Subjects: Oklahoma Military Academy; Army; Basic Training – Santa Ana, California; Air Corps; B-16; France; B-26
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-127 Interviewee: Arles Cole; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 24, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 2:00:39
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS West Virginia; Pearl Harbor; USS Pritchett; Gilbert Islands; Guadalcanal; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Korean War
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-128 Interviewee: H.C. Carmichael; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 12, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:50:39
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Pearl Harbor; 1st Marine Division; Gloucester; Pavuvu; Pelilu; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-129 Interviewee: Earl L. Bigelow; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 24, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:14:59
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sam Houston; 86th Observation Squadron, Bellows Field, Hawaii; Pearl Harbor; Japanese POW
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-130 Interviewee: Burl Ward; Pawhuska, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 19, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD & DVD reference copies
TRT: 0:28:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Guam; B-29s
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-131 Interviewee: Glenn Moore; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 23, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 1:35:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Training – Kelly Field, Texas; 525th Fighter Squadron; Combat Missions
Additional Material: Copy of WWII-Era Portrait; Copy of Dear Mom and Dad, Don’t Worry – I’m OK by Glenn Moore, Contains Letters, Images, Articles, Documents By or Related to Moore and WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-132 Interviewee: Dick F. Smith; Calremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 5, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 0:42:59
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Windover Field, Utah; Air Corps; 489th Bomb Group; England; B-24s
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-133 Interviewee: Bob E. Wightman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 0:44:57
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Bragg; 102nd Infantry Division; Red Ball Express; France; Elbe River
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-134 Interviewee: E.J. Oxford; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 22, 2001 Format: 8mm, CD & VHS TRT: 0:52:35
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Vestal; Pearl Harbor; USS Stevens
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-135 Interviewee: Ted W. Kykendall; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 31, 2001 Format: 8mm & VHS TRT: 1:25:11
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Nevada; Pearl Harbor; USS Kern
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-136 Interviewee: Richard H. Freiermuth; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 2:02:09
Subjects: Army; Officer Training – Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; Air Corps; Radar; Royal Air Force; Omaha Beach; Bastogne
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-137 Interviewee: J.D. O'Connor; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 0:48:28
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Sacramento, California; 56th Signal Battalion; D-Day; Omaha Beach; Germany; Czechoslovakia
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-138 Interviewee: Jack F. Miller; Joplin, Missouri Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 29, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 0:17:28
Subjects: American Home Front; 4-F; Worked at YMCA
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-139 Interviewee: Roy E. Bond; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 30, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 1:12:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Macon, Georgia; 1058th Military Police Company; Egypt; Libya; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-140 Interviewee: David W. Miller; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 29, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 0:38:32
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Corpsman; Navy Hospital at Pearl Harbor; Shore Patrol
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
Note: For Miller photographs see World War II composite collection.
EL-VOH-WWII-141 Interviewee: Bill "Pete" Frailey; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 1:24:17
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Barkley, Texas; 124th Infantry; Italy; 179th Infantry, 45th Division; France
Additional Material: Collection of 15 D-Day Maps; Army Menu; One “Large War Map of Europe;” Issue of “Madigan Messenger” from 1951 (Madigan Army Hospital Newsletter); Various Original Documents and Publications from the Army, Including Orders and Pamphlets – Mainly Post-WWII; Copies of Army Documents
Note: For Frailey photographs see World War II composite collection
EL-VOH-WWII-142 Interviewee: Herbert E. "Gene" Winn; Ochelata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 18, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD & DVD reference copies
TRT: 0:35:33
Subjects: Merchant Marines; Boot Camp – Pass Christian, Mississippi; Transport
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Lifeboat Certification; Copy of Identification Letter; Copy of Discharge Letter; Copy of Discharge Book
EL-VOH-WWII-143 Interviewee: Donald A. Davidson; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 0:43:32
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Barkley, Texas; 357th Infantry, 90th Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; Utah Beach; France; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-144 Interviewee: Raymond Clifford Myers; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 8, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 0:24:42
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Air Corps; B-17s; Enola Gay
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-145 Interviewee: Robert James Norman; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 31, 2001 Format: 8mm, CD & VHS TRT: 1:32:47
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Nevada; Pearl Harbor; Corregidor; Korean War
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-146 Interviewee: M.R. Reed; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 6, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 1:53:03
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; 474th Amphibious Engineers; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-147 Interviewee: Galen W. Brunstetter; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 22, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 0:58:40
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; USS Maryland; Saipan; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-148 Interviewee: Lloyd Minter; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 23, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:43:44
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; 78th Infantry Division; Italy; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-149 Interviewee: John "Red" Sweeney; Shrewsbury, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 30, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:58:48
Subjects: Army; 26th Infantry Division; China; Burma; India; Train Soldiers
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Information Sheet on Detachment 101; 2 Copies of Ramgarh: “Now It Can Be Told”
EL-VOH-WWII-150 Interviewee: Charles J. Martin; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 17, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:11:39
Subjects: Air Corps; Thunderbird Field; Gunnery School Instructor; China; India
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-151 Interviewee: Grace C. Fender; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 8, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: 0:33:32
Subjects: Civilian Pilot Program; Women’s Air Force Service Pilots, WASPs
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-152 Interviewee: Sylvia Cranmer; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 24, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:00:08
Subjects: Civilian in England; War Bride
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Typed Personal Reminiscences
EL-VOH-WWII-153 Interviewee: Marion Kern Kennedy; San Antonio, Texas Esther Jane McNeil; San Antonio, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 30, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:15:03
Subjects: Esther McNeil – Army Nurse Corps; 69th Hospital, Ledo, India Marian Kennedy – Army Nurse Corps; 20th Hospital, Ledo, India
Additional Material: Copies of Current portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-154 Interviewee: Harry "Skittles" Hengshoon; Huntington Beach, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 1, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:25:13
Subjects: Civilian in Burma; Japanese Invasion; Lashu; OSS
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-155 Interviewee: Elvin M. Amen; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 29, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:45:04
Subjects: Civilian Flight Instructor, Cimarron Field, El Reno, Oklahoma; Air Transport Command
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Personal Reminiscences
EL-VOH-WWII-156 Interviewee: Major and Mania Korenblit; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 3, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:09:18
Subjects: Civilians in Poland; Ghetto; Concentration Camps; Holocaust Survivors
Additional Material: Copies of New Photographs, Including Picture of Number Tattoo
EL-VOH-WWII-157 Interviewee: Wendall A. Phillips; Whitehall, Pennsylvania Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 1, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1;26:12
Subjects: American Home Front; Army; Basic Training – Fort McClellan; Air Corps; Army Transport Command; POW; Iran; India; China
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-158 Interviewee: Lawrence Goughler; Barnsdahl, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 23, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:48:24
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Jackson, Mississippi; 450th Squadron, 21st Bomb Group; England; 322nd Bomb Group, 9th Air Force; France; Belgium
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; four B&W photos of airplanes on the tarmac
EL-VOH-WWII-159 Interviewee: Joseph E. Davis; Cleveland, Ohio Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: 1:02:54 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:02:54
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Meade, Maryland; 522nd Quartermaster Truck Regiment; Casablanca; India
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-160 Interviewee: William Mullaney; Worchester, Massachusetts Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 30, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:47:16
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Miami, Florida; 8th Aerodrome Squadron; India; China
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-161 Interviewee: James J. Lee; Wann, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 24, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:29:46
Subjects: CCC; Army; Basic Training – Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; 98th Coast Artillery; Pearl Harbor; Fort Ord, California; France
No Folder in Box.
EL-VOH-WWII-162-1--2 Interviewee: Carl M. Smith; Pawhuska, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 22, 1001 & September 12, 2001 Format: 8mm & DVD reference copies TRT: #1 0:24:15; #2 0:16:55
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Sperry; Hawaii; USS Tulsa
Additional Material: Copy of WWII-Era Portrait
Subjects EL-VOH-WWII-163-1--2 Interviewee: Gus White; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 31, 2001 Format: 8mm & DVD reference copies
TRT: #1 2:00:00; #2 0:31:05
Subjects: Civilian in England; Royal Marines; 3rd Royal Marine Commando Brigade; India; Burma
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Transcript Edited by White
EL-VOH-WWII-164 Interviewee: Mitch Opas; Grafton, West Virginia Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 30, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:41:59
Subjects: Army; Medical Training – Fort Hayes, Ohio; India; China, Burma
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-165 Interviewee: Frank Breyer; Huntsville, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 30, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:42:39
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Swift, Texas; Louisiana Maneuvers; Burma; 5307th Composite Provisional, Merrill’s Marauders
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-166 Interviewee: Louis A. Bowdre; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 13, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:55:56
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 77th Artillery; Louisiana Maneuvers; Casablanca; Italy; France; Battle of the Bulge
EL-VOH-WWII-167 Interviewee: Ward S. Goff; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 22, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:44:11
Subjects: Seabees; Boot Camp – Williamsburg, Virginia; 53rd Seabee Battalion; Aleutians; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-168-1--2 Interviewee: L.G. Beard; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 23, 2001 Format: 8mm & CD reference copy TRT: #1 2:02:41; # 2 2:00:58
Subjects: 160th Field Artillery, 45th Infantry Division, Oklahoma National Guard; Louisiana Maneuvers; Army; Italy; France; Dachau
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-169 Interviewee: John L. Woody; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 13, 2001 Format: 8mm & DVD reference copies
TRT: 2:01:13
Subjects: Army; Training – Toccoa, Georgia; 2nd Battalion, 517th Regimental Combat Team; Italy; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Handwritten Notes on Military Career
EL-VOH-WWII-170 Interviewee: James W. Pierce; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 23, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:14:29
Subjects: CCC; Army; Basic Training – San Antonio, Texas; 376th Regiment, 94th Infantry Division; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII-Era
EL-VOH-WWII-171 Interviewee: Theodore Hudson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 15, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:48:12
Subjects: CCC; Army; Basic Training – Camp Polk, Louisiana; 3rd Armored Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; France; Battle of the Bulge; Belgium; Germany; Displaced Persons
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-172 Interviewee: Gene Harmon; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 5, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:15:02
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Training; B-24; Belgium; POW; Germany; Stalag Luft 4; Camp Lucky Strike
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of B-24 Crew Photo, with Identification
EL-VOH-WWII-173 Interviewee: Samuel LuDon Garrett; Okesa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 6, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:43:47
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Camp Maxey; Japan; 1306th Engineers, Army of Occupation; Nagasaki
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-174 Interviewee: Sam Burks; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 11, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:04:32
Subjects: Army; Fort Monmouth; 52nd Signal Construction Company; Louisiana Maneuvers; Australia; New Guinea
Additional Material: Photographs from WWII; Letter to Wife from 1945
EL-VOH-WWII-175 Interviewee: Walt Miller; Barnsadall, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 12, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:30:17
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Knox; 714th Tank Battalion, 12th Armored Division; Tennessee Maneuvers; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of WWII-Era Portrait; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-176 Interviewee: Chilton Gates; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 10, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:07:58
Subjects: Civilian Pilot Program; Ferry Command, Memphis, Tennessee; India; China
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-177 Interviewee: Fidel Ortiz; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 12, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:27:34
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; 186th Infantry, 41st Infantry Division; Philippines
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-178 Interviewee: Thomas L. “Tex” Glazebrook; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 14, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:50:49
Subjects: 250th Coast Artillery, California National Guard; 527th Field Artillery; Alaska; 275th Infantry, 70th Division; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-179 Interviewee: D.A. Stark; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 5, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:00:59
Subjects: Navy Nurse Corps; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, California
Additional Material: Copies of WWII-Era Portraits
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-180 Interviewee: Ralph J. Melton; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 16, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:05:15
Subjects: CCC; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Guadalcanal; Emaru; Leyte
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-181 Interviewee: O. Phillip Kent; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 12, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:49:31
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming; 902nd Quartermaster Service Company; 46th Bombardment Operational Training Wing; 90th Photo Reconnaissance Wing; Italy
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Timeline (Service Schedule) Covering 1942-1946; Copy of Personal Reminiscences on War; Copies of Information Sheets on the Allied Photo Reconnaissance Wing; Bound Copy of “Memoirs of World War II and the Italian Theater by O. Phillip Kent
EL-VOH-WWII-182 Interviewee: Eugene Bryson Ball; Holdenville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 27, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:51:06
Subjects: New Mexico Military Institute; Army; Basic Training – Camp Wallace, Texas; 432nd Anti-Aircraft Battalion; North Africa; Italy; Monte Cassino
Additional Material: Copy of WWII-Era Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-183 Interviewee: Archie Roland Boyd; Ramona, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 9, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:02:03
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Coxswain on LCM; USS Penthius; Korean War; USS Bayfield
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-184 Interviewee: Paul Ralph Friedman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 14, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:22:39
Subjects: Marine Corps
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-185 Interviewee: Richard H. Johnson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 4, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:51:31
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming; 13th Quartermaster Truck Company; Guam; 7th Air Force; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-186 Interviewee: J.W. Lemay, Jr.; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 13, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:39:50
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; APC-37; Troop Transport; Russell Islands; USS Rushmore; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Handwritten Notes on Career
EL-VOH-WWII-187 Interviewee: Katherine Evelyn Lemay; , Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 16, 2001 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:28:12
Subjects: American Home Front; Lone Star Ordnance Depot, Texarkana, Texas
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-188 Interviewee: Clayton R. Srygley; Clarendon, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 22, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:35:00
Subjects: U.S. Marines; Guadalcanal; Sugarloaf Hill; dogs
Empty Folder in Box.
EL-VOH-WWII-189 Interviewee: Ed Reese; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 24, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 2:02:16
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Drum; USS Flyer; Iwo Jima; Korean War
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-190 Interviewee: Joanna Nichol; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 12, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: @ 1:10:00
Subjects: American Home Front; Worked in Clubs
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-191 Interviewee: Clinton Hildabrand; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 6, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: @ 1:10:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Maxey, Texas; 19th Armored Infantry Division; France; Germany
EL-VOH-WWII-192 Interviewee: Jack Dornan; Arlington, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 26, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: @ 2:00:00
Subjects: Canadian Army; Marines; Boot Camp – Parris Island, South Carolina; 2nd Raider Battalion; Guadalcanal; Bougainville; Guam; Emaru; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Note on History of the Marine Raiders – Transferred to Book Collection
EL-VOH-WWII-193 Interviewee: Elton Kirbo; Midwest City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 12, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:05:30
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Maxey, Texas; 393rd Regiment, 99th Division; Battle of the Bulge; POW
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Reminiscences on Army Career
EL-VOH-WWII-194 Interviewee: Joseph E. DuPont, Jr.; Plequemine, Louisiana Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 15, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:27:37
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 4th Marine Regiment; China; Philippines; Corregidor; POW; Bilibud Prison; Cabanatuan Prison; Palawan Prison
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-195 Interviewee: Eugene Byers; Albany, Oregon Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 26, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:27:56
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Whitney; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-196 Interviewee: Bill Mercer; Euless, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 18, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:50:44
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Johnston DD-557; Kwajaeline; Marshall Islands; Eniwetok; Leyte Gulf
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-197 Interviewee: Al Gillett; Las Vegas, Nevada Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:24:57
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Hamilton; USS Hornet
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-198 Interviewee: James Bounds; Santee, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 26, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: @0:60:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Helena
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-199 Interviewee: Woodrow Bratten; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 6, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: @1:47:04
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; 1107th Glider Squadron; Italy
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-200 Interviewee: Paul Tatroe; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 9, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD & DVD reference copies TRT: @1:25:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Riley, Kansas; OCS; Belgium; 3rd Armored Division; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Reminiscences on Military Career
EL-VOH-WWII-201 Interviewee: Mildred C. Hettenhaus Kurtz; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 6, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: @1:15:30
Subjects: Army Nurse Corps; 204th General Hospital, Guam
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-202 Interviewee: Leonard Kurtz; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 5, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: @2:00:00
Subjects: Army; 128th Field Artillery, 6th Armored Division; Utah Beach; France; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Buchenwald
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-203 Interviewee: William Ledeker; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 21, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:23:22
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; 142nd Infantry, 36th Division; POW; Stala 7A
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-204 Interviewee: Max Essery; Santa Ana, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 26, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: @0:30:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; USS Grayson; USS Hornet; SC 981
EL-VOH-WWII-205 Interviewee: Galen Eslick Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 20, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: @2:00:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Saratoga; USS Hancock
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copy of Reimbursement Pay Check and Note; Copy of Wounded in Action Telegram
EL-VOH-WWII-206 Interviewee: Werner Gubelin; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 21, 2001 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:52:25
Subjects: Swiss Air Force; Diplomat
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-207 Interviewee: George Brown; Alea, Hawaii Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 26, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:16:29
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Warden; Coral Sea; Midway
Additional Material: Copy of Current portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-208 Interviewee: Merle Hays; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Renata Hays Date of Interview: March 24, 2009 Format: VHS TRT:
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Typhoon; Hawaii; Saipan; Guam; Enitwetok; Okinawa; Iwo Jima
EL-VOH-WWII-209 Interviewee: Burl Kimbley; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Casey Evans Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS TRT:
Subjects: 601st Field Artillery Battalion.
Additional Material: Copies of Personal Reminiscences from Members of the 601st Field Artillery Battalion
This interview was conducted as part of the Fred and Mabel Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-210 Interviewee: L. G. Beard Bracken; Oklahoma Interviewer: Amanda Miller Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS TRT:
Subjects: Battle of Anzio.
This interview was conducted as part of the Fred and Mabel Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-211 Interviewee: Marvin Rider; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 13, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:55:51
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Enid Army Air Field, Oklahoma; 1st Combat Cargo Group, 4th Combat Cargo Squadron; China; Burma; India; C-47
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-212 Interviewee: Alvin Cummins; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 30, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:51:44
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; 23rd Regiment, 2nd Division; Omaha Beach; France; 389th Military Police
EL-VOH-WWII-213 Interviewee: Charles Grenon; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 19, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:48:13
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Gruber, Oklahoma; Louisiana Maneuvers; 351st Regiment, 88th Division; Italy; POW Camp Guard
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-214 Interviewee: Jess Townsend; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 19, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:19:12
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; 169th Regiment, 43rd Division; New Guinea; Lingayen Gulf; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-215 Interviewee: Wayne Ruttman; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 1, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:13:45
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; 1st Battalion, 503rd Parachute Regimental Combat Team; New Guinea; Leyte; Corregidor; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-216 Interviewee: Albert Taylor; Coleman, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 16, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:08:28
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort McKinley; 31st Infantry; Philippines; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell; Cabanatuan Prison; POW; Japan
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-217 Interviewee: Henry Powell; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 22, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:57:39
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Bragg, North Carolina; 397th Regiment, 100th Infantry Division; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-218 Interviewee: Harold M. Ferrell; Sacramento, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 15, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:04:40
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – Paris Island, South Carolina; USS West Virginia; 4th Marines; China; Philippines; Corregidor; Oryoku Maru; POW
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-219 Interviewee: James Percy Key; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 13, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:46:11
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; Iceland; 50th Signal Battalion; D-Day; Utah Beach; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-220 Interviewee: Myrle Cox; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 5, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:46:59
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Enid Army Air Field, Oklahoma; Flight Training; B-24; 849th Squadron, 490th Bomb Group; England
Additional Material: Copy of WWII-Era Portrait; Copy of “Under Cover, 406 Field Artillery Group,” Copy of the 406th’s History
EL-VOH-WWII-221 Interviewee: Joe Spitler; El Paso, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 26, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:37:53
Subjects: Naval Academy; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Warden; Coral Sea; Aleutians; USS Hall; Iwo Jima; Marshal Islands; Marianas; Guam
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-222 Interviewee: Spencer Prentiss; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 28, 2002 Format: 8mm (2 cassettes) TRT: 2:39:10
Subjects: American Home Front; Office of Scientific Research and Development
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-223 Interviewee: Farmer Ellsworth Rains; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 20, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 2:01:47
Subjects: Army; Air Corps; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Flight Training; B-17; POW
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits (Is POW Photograph)
EL-VOH-WWII-224 Interviewee: Leo Horn; Dover, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:45:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training- Camp Campbell, Kentucky; France; 782nd Tank Battalion
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-225 Interviewee: Eddie J. Barnes; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 13, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:24:41
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Pursuit; Tarawa; Eniwetok; Kwajalein; Philippines; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-226 Interviewee: Glen Joseph Sanders; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 2, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD & DVD reference copies TRT: 1:34:33
Subjects: CCC; Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Saipan; Tinian; Okinawa; MP
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-227 Interviewee: Jay Rye; Porterville, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 16, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:17:10
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 31st Infantry; Philippines; Bataan Death march; POW; Japan; Korean War
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-228 Interviewee: Houston L. Taylor; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 16, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:42:29
Subjects: 246th Combat Engineers; Gott, Germany; USS Lone Wolf
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-229 Interviewee: John London; Tulsa, Oklahoma (and George Wayman) Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 27, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:28:06
Subjects: George Wayman – Army; Basic Training – Fort Knox, Kentucky; 645th Tank Destroyers; 45th Division; France; Italy
No Folder in Box.
EL-VOH-WWII-230 Interviewee: Archie Todd; Tahleavah, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 30, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:17;26
Subjects: 90th Infantry
No Folder in Box.
EL-VOH-WWII-231 Interviewee: Thurlow Cook; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 20, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:37:33
Subjects: Camp Robinson; Salt Lake City; Smoky Hill Air Base, Salina; 14th Air Force
No Folder in Box.
EL-VOH-WWII-232 Interviewee: Rod Sandburg; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 13, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 3:18:57
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division; New Zealand; Tarawa; Saipan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
No Transcript in Folder.
EL-VOH-WWII-233 Interviewee: Howard McIntyre; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 2:00:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Maxey, Texas; 406th Field Artillery; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-234 Interviewee: Brewster Smith; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 31, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:31:27
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Blanding, Florida; Alaskan Highway; Camp St. John
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-235 Interviewee: Victor “Buster” Jefferson; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 11, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT:
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 807th Tank Destroyer Battalion; Omaha Beach; France; 179th Infantry, 95th Division
Additional Material: Copy of WWII-Era Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-236 Interviewee: Elaine White Sikola; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 23, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:36:44
Subjects: Army Nurse Corps; 76th General Hospital, Camp White, Oregon; Omaha Beach; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-237 Interviewee: George W. King; Copan, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 20, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 3:48:37
Subjects: CCC; Army; 59th Signal Battalion; Utah Beach; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-238 Interviewee: Glenn Stewart; Brandon, Mississippi Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 15, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:45:00
Subjects: CCC; Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 4th Marines; Philippines; Bataan; Corregidor; POW; Cabanatuan Prison; Manchuria; Japan
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-239 Interviewee: Wes Potts; Mancos, Colorado Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 27, 2992 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:26:34
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor
EL-VOH-WWII-240 Interviewee: Don W. Woodrell; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: O. Phillip Kent Date of Interview: January 23, 2003 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:37:03
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Fannin, Texas; 706th Ordnance Company, 6th Division; New Guinea; Philippines; Korea
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-241 Interviewee: Ted Kyle; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:49:50
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 782nd Tank Battalion; Tennessee Maneuvers; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-242 Interviewee: Jack Spurlock; Newkirk, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 21, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:16:46
Subjects: Army; MP; POW Camp in Tonkawa, Oklahoma; 720th Railway Operating Battalion; France; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-243 Interviewee: Clarence Sutton; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 13, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:45:30
Subjects: Recollections of the Great Depression; enlistment in the Navy
No Folder in Box.
EL-VOH-WWII-244 Interviewee: Elmer Shockley; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 13, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:21:13
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 32nd Cavalry Division; Aleutians; 107th Division; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-245 Interviewee: Hubert C. Evans; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:17:39
Subjects: Civilian Military Training Camp; Army; Basic Training – Camp Wallace; 604th Anti-Aircraft; Iceland; Omaha Beach; France
EL-VOH-WWII-246 Interviewee: Roy Essary; Ponc City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 11, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:23:40
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Atlantic City, New Jersey; 1309th Signal Pigeon Company
Additional Material: Copy of WWII-Era Portrait; Copy of Picture of a Pigeon Loft
EL-VOH-WWII-247 Interviewee: Melvin C. Glasser; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: O. Phillip Kent Date of Interview: February 10, 2003 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:23:09
Subjects: Basic Training – Shepherd Field; 21st Aerodrome Squadron; Mechanic
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-248 Interviewee: Bill Snyder; Oregon City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 16, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD & DVD reference copies TRT: 2:35:14
Subjects: Army; Radar; Philippines; Filipino Guerrillas; POW; Bilibid Prison; Japan
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-249 Interviewee: Albert Perri; Vandergrif, Pennsylvania Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 15, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:40:08
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – Paris Island; 4th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division; Shanghai; Philippines; Corregidor; POW; Cabanatuan Prison; Bilibid Prison; Japan
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-250 Interviewee: Allen Richter; Jupiter, Florida Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 5, 2003 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:27:03
Subjects: Basic Training - Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; Signal Corps; Detachment 101 of OSS; Burma
No Folder in Box.
EL-VOH-WWII-251 Interviewee: Bill Stewart; Independence, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 12, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD & DVD reference copies TRT: 1:16:02
Subjects: CCC; Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Detroit; USS Houston; Sundra Straits; POW
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of the Montgomery County Chronicle, Featuring an Article on Stewart
EL-VOH-WWII-252 Interviewee: James Carrington; Slidel, Louisiana Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 15, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:33:55
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 1st Battalion, 4th Marines; China; Philippines; Bataan; Corregidor; POW; Bilibid Prison; Cabanatuan Prison; Filipino Guerrillas; Lingayen Gulf
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-253 Interviewee: John Dale; Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 18, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:57:58
Subjects: CCC; Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 1st Defense Battalion; Wake Island; POW; Japan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-254 Interviewee: Charles Keltner; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 25, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD & DVD reference copies TRT: 0:29:28
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Kalk; Tokyo Harbor
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-255 Interviewee: McDaniel Wall; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 22, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 0:31:05
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Rocky Mountain; Saipan
No Folder in Box.
EL-VOH-WWII-256 Interviewee: Earl Robins; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 16, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:39:46
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; 343rd Field Artillery, 90th Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; D-Day; Utah Beach; France
Additional Material: Copy of WWII-Era Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-257 Interviewee: Lloyd Gardner; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: Format: 8mm with VHS and CD reference copy TRT: 1:07:47
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Hood, Texas; Philippines; 21st Regiment, 24th Division; Mindanao
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Letter to Interviewer; List Entitled “Things to Remember;” Copy of Gardner’s Training Certificate; Copy of “Diamond News” from June 29, 1946; Copy of “A Brief History of the 24th Infantry Division, October 1941 – July 1946;” Copy of Poem Written After V-J Day; Copies of Letters on Pfc. James H. Diamond
EL-VOH-WWII-258 Interviewee: C.D. Northcutt; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: 1:08:28
Subjects: ROTC; Fort Sill; 142nd Artillery; Louisiana Maneuvers; Utah Beach; France; Battle of the Bulge; Elbe River
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-259 Interviewee: George Wayman; Fairfax, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD reference copy TRT: #1 2:01:48 #2 0:46:47
Subjects: Fort Knox; Misery Hill; Anzio; Rome; Southern France; Rhine
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EL-VOH-WWII-260 Interviewee: Don Whaling; Copan, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 12, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD & DVD reference copies
TRT: 1:12:14
Subjects: CCC; 1st Cavalry Division; 8th Cavalry Regiment; Louisiana Maneuvers; Infantry; Philippines; Santo Tomas University Internees
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EL-VOH-WWII-261 Interviewee: Eithel C. Morland; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 2, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:30:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Jefferson Barracks; 862nd Aviation Engineers; Colchester, England; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Red Ball Express
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copy of Discharge Form
EL-VOH-WWII-262 Interviewee: Paul Goodyear; Casa Grande, Arizona Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:00:00
Subjects: Navy; V-6 Program; Boot Camp – Chicago, Illinois; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; Ford Island; USS Indiana
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Pamphlet from USS Oklahoma Reunion, Contains Lists of Survivors and Design for Memorial; Copies of “The Jerseyman” from Jan. 2004, Oct. 2003, Sept. 2003, June 2003, April 2003, July 2003, Aug. 2003; Copy of “Now Hear This” from 2002; Copy of “The Big Stick” from 2003; Miscellaneous Internet Print-Outs on Battleships, the USS Iowa
EL-VOH-WWII-263 Interviewee: Kenneth Beckwith; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 2, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Radio; England; B-24; 506th Squadron, 44th Bomb Group; POW; Stalag Luft IV
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-264 Interviewee: Louis Covey; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 20, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:18:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Shangri La; Guam; Eniwetok; Saipan; Okinawa
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EL-VOH-WWII-265 Interviewee: Marion Wilson; Pampa, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 7, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:12:10
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 782nd Battalion; Tennessee Maneuvers; France; Belgium
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-266 Interviewee: Warren Jefferson Gordonwood; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 3, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Keesler Field, Mississippi; 20th Division; France; Belgium; Germany; Dachau
EL-VOH-WWII-267 Interviewee: John Lewis Kennedy; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July30, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:22:52
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Lexington; Pearl Harbor; Salamaua; Coral Sea; Langley
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Attack Squadron 44’s Combat Record
EL-VOH-WWII-268 Interviewee: James Swords; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 5, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:43:33
Subjects: Basic Training – Kelly Field, Texas; England; Warrington; B-17s
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Souvenirs from HMS Queen Mary – Card for Sleeping Quarters, Button for Meals, and Copy of “Ocean Daily News” from July 29, 1943
EL-VOH-WWII-269 Interviewee: Ben Cowan; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:16:24
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; North Africa; 3053rd Engineer Shore Regiment, 1st Amphibious Brigade; Italy; France; Omaha Beach; D-Day; Belgium; Holland
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-270 Interviewee: George Stewart; Magnolia, Arkansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:01:42
Subjects: NYA; CCC; Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell; 782nd Tank Battalion; Tennessee Maneuvers; France; Belgium
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-271 Interviewee: Bill Armstrong; Copan, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 16, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:54:54
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Franklin; Japan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-272 Interviewee: George A. Smith; Tenino, Washington Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:28:55
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Preble; Midway
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-273 Interviewee: Don Lester; La Mesa, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 26, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:14:41
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Phelps; USS Bancroft; Hiroshima; Nagasaki
EL-VOH-WWII-274 Interviewee: Floyd Grundy; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 26, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:22:51
Subjects: Civilian Military Training Camp; Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill; 68th Quartermaster Battalion; 3410th Medium Automotive Maintenance Battalion; Louisiana Maneuvers; India; Iran
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Service Record for 3410 and 3557 Ordnance Companies; Map of Persian Gulf Command Sites; Copy of Information on Iran; Copy of Information Sheet on Persian Gulf Command; Copy of Letter from Brig. Gen. Donald P. Booth to Grundy Regarding Persian Gulf Command; Copy of a Book About the Persian Gulf Command
EL-VOH-WWII-275 Interviewee: Don Hatfield; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 16, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: #1 2:01:23; #2 0:58:57
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; 325th Glider Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division; Holland; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-276 Interviewee: David Johnson; Pearl, Mississippi Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 15, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:38
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 4th Marine Regiment; Shanghai; Philippines; Corregidor; POW
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-277 Interviewee: Frank Holsten, Jr.; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 23, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:43:20
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Norfolk, Virginia; Corpsman; D-Day; Omaha Beach; LST 499
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EL-VOH-WWII-278 Interviewee: Peter Paul Acritelli; Palm Springs, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 16, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:41:13
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Camp Perry, Virginia; 86th Construction Battalion; Seabees; Philippines; Samar
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-279 Interviewee: Ed Mignogna; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 30, 2002 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:40:06
Subjects:
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EL-VOH-WWII-280 Interviewee: Leo Rodrigues; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 30, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:20:07
Subjects: ROTC; OCS; 509th Parachute Infantry; 504th Parachute Infantry; North Africa; Sicily; Italy; France; Germany
EL-VOH-WWII-281 Interviewee: Douglas M. Benbrook; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 3, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:22:55
Subjects: ROTC; 4th Infantry Division; Utah Beach; France; 8th Infantry, 4th Division; Battle of the Bulge; Germany; Dachau
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-282 Interviewee: Lester White; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 23, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:37:11
Subjects: Puget Sound Navy Yards; Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; USS Walter S. Gorka APD-114; Caribbean
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EL-VOH-WWII-283 Interviewee: William Moorman; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 5, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:09:40
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Benning, Georgia; Louisiana Maneuvers; 343rd Regiment, 85th Division; France; Germany; Philippines
EL-VOH-WWII-284 Interviewee: Teddy Ray Miller; Ramona, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 14, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:52:44
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Salute; Linguyan Gulf; Corregidor
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copies of Miscellaneous Articles on the USS Salute; Copy of USS Salute’s War Record; Copy of the “USS Salute AM-294 Memorial Book,” Copied Pages on the USS Salute from Most Dangerous Sea: A History of Mine Warfare, and an Account of US Navy Mine Warfare Operations in World War II and Korea
EL-VOH-WWII-285 Interviewee: Robert H. Neptune; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 17, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: #1 2:02:08; #2 2:02:52; #3 1:16:16
Subjects: ROTC; 376th Field Artillery Parachute Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division; North Africa; Sicily; Italy; Utah Beach; Holland; Belgium
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-286 Interviewee: Roy A. Brown; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 29, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:44:55
Subjects: Oklahoma National Guard; 158th Artillery, 45th Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; North Africa; Italy; Dachau
Additional Material: Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copy of Typed Personal Reminiscences on Life and Wartime Experience
EL-VOH-WWII-287 Interviewee: Dwayne Ascue; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:55:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Ashland; Coxswain on LCM; Saipan; Tinian; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-288 Interviewee: Lowell V. Smith; Kaw City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 25, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:65:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Casey, Washington; 14th Coast Artillery; Search Light Unit; POW Guard
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-289 Interviewee: Raymond Bruce Stephens; Mt. Pleasant, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 7, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:65:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 782nd Tank Battalion; Radio; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-290 Interviewee: Kate Grant; Moore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: O:28:45
Subjects: American Home Front; Kaiser Shipyards, California; “Rosie the Riveter” Organization
Additional Material: Copies of WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-291 Interviewee: Melvin W. Johnson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 18, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:57:00
Subjects: National Guard; Army; 90th Signal Company, 90th Division; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-292 Interviewee: Henry M. McCullough; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 23, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:45:00
Subjects: CCC; Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Sterett; Guadalcanal; Gilbert Islands; Marshall Islands; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-293 Interviewee: William H. Knobloch; Frederic, Wisconsin Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 6, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:29:08
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Radio Training; USS Catfish
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-294 Interviewee: Larry Sanchez; Derby, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 7, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:50:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell; 782nd Tank Battalion; Tennessee Maneuvers; France; Germany; Czechoslovakia
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-295 Interviewee: Herman C. Smith; Leakey, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 13, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:00:00
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Shanghai; 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines; Philippines; Bataan; Corregidor; POW; Japan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-296 Interviewee: George C. McAnelly; Interviewer: O. Phillip Kent Date of Interview: April 2, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:22:30
Subjects: ROTC; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; 821st Engineering Aviation Battalion; Fiji; Guadalcanal; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-297 Interviewee: David Daniel Dake; Foxil, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 20, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:40:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Lexington; Coral Sea; Tona Tabu; Saipan; Tinian; Guam; Philippines; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-298 Interviewee: Lawrence Losey; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:49:13
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 782nd Tank Battalion; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-299 Interviewee: Burton Mead; Gage, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 2, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:55:00
Subjects: 158th Field Artillery, 45th Division, Oklahoma National Guard; Louisiana Maneuvers; North Africa; Sicily; Italy
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-300 Interviewee: Fred Bolen; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 22, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:23:00
Subjects: NYA; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 231st Station Hospital; France
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
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EL-VOH-WWII-301 Interviewee: Clark H. McKee; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 5, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:57
Subjects: West Point; Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Guam; Iwo Jima; China
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-302 Interviewee: Rilla B. Boyd; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 1, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:57:59
Subjects: American Home Front; Spartan Aircraft; Riveter; Douglas Aircraft
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-303 Interviewee: Bernie Weintrub; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 2, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:48:36
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Shelby, Mississippi; 147th Infantry, 37th Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; Guadalcanal; New Caledonia; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-304 Interviewee: Vera Frakes; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 18, 2033 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:44:30
Subjects: Civilian in England; British Air Force; Pershore Air Force Base; War Bride
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-305 Interviewee: Wilson Blackburn; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 15, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:17:32
Subjects: ROTC; Army; Radar; England; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Guide Air Corps; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-306 Interviewee: Adrian D. Osborne; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 14, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:55:45
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp McCall; 187th Regiment, 11th Airborne Division; New Guinea; Leyte Gulf; Philippines; Los Banos
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Account of Osborne’s Service in WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-307 Interviewee: Al Williams; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 2, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:55:29
Subjects: 158th Field Artillery, 45th Division, Oklahoma National Guard; Camp Barkley, Texas; Louisiana Maneuvers; North Africa; Sicily; Italy; France; Germany; Dachau
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-308 Interviewee: Richard Guy Jones; Independence, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 14, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:46:14
Subjects: Merchant Marines; USS Lowdnes; Iwo Jima; Guam; Philippines; Japan
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-309 Interviewee: R. V. Wagner; Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 30, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:01
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Riley, Kansas; France; Germany; 28th Mechanized Cavalary, 28th Division; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Reunion Information Sheet
EL-VOH-WWII-310 Interviewee: Martha Fincher Kennedy; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 8, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:20:00
Subjects: American Home Front; Worked in Factory
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-311 Interviewee: John Tallchief; Grayhorse, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 5, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:60:00
Subjects: Oklahoma National Guard; Louisiana Maneuvers; 21st Infantry Regiment; New Guinea; Philippines; Leyte Gulf
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-312 Interviewee: Melvin Grant; Moore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:48
Subjects: CCC; Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 1st Marine Division; Russell Islands; Okinawa; China
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Internet Articles on the Grants; Copy of a Letter from Hugh Ambrose; Information on “Price for Peace,” a Documentary the Grants Contributed To; Copies of Newspaper Articles; Copy of a Letter from the Grants
EL-VOH-WWII-313 Interviewee: Jack L. Noles; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 22, 2002 Format: 8mm with CD & DVD reference copies TRT: 0:50:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Fort Leavenworth; New Guinea; A-20
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Pictures of A- 20s
EL-VOH-WWII-314 Interviewee: John Werner; Independence, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 14, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:58:13
Subjects: Richmond Shipyards, California; Army; Basic Training – Camp Gruber, Oklahoma; D-Day; Omaha Beach; 29th Division; 35th Division; POW; Escape; French Underground
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-315 Interviewee: Charles Rowe; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 18, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:19:53
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; England; Utah Beach; France; Belgium; 106th Division; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWIIs
EL-VOH-WWII-316 Interviewee: Leonard Nealis; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 26, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:00:11
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; 384th Bomb Group; England; B-17
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-317 Interviewee: John Kidd; Spring, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 16, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:38:41
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Nevada; USS Blackhawk; Philippines; Bataan; Corregidor; POW; Japan
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-318 Interviewee: Bud Renbarger; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 29, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:03:04
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Norfolk, Virginia; Seabees; Underwater Demolition; Saipan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-319 Interviewee: Luree Satterfield; Locust Grove, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 3, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:26:13
Subjects: American Home Front; Taft Alloy Company
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of a Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-320 Interviewee: Orville Brehm; Dodge City, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 7, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:09:25
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Carson, Colorado; 565th Quartermaster Railhead Company; France; Germany; Japan
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-321 Interviewee: Jack Graham; Jenks, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 7, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:29:37
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; Tennessee Maneuvers; 782nd Tank Battalion; France; Germany; Buchenwald
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-322 Interviewee: Anna Casey Phillips; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:31;14
Subjects: Marines; Officers Uniform Shop, Camp LeJune
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-323 Interviewee: Clinton Evans; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 29, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:40:35
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; APA-83; Saipan; Tinian; Guam; Japan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-324 Interviewee: Marion Beavers; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 30, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:45:30
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 782nd Tank Battalion; Tennessee Maneuvers; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII – Mainly Damaged Cities; Note on Train Wreck at St. Valeri, France; Copy of Map Entitled “782nd Travels Abroad”
EL-VOH-WWII-325 Interviewee: Calvin Lucas; Wann, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 16, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:47:56
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; B-17; 331st Squadron, 94th Bomb Group
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII – Mainly Planes
EL-VOH-WWII-326 Interviewee: Ted Williams; Anaheim, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 15, 1002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:45:38
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Philippines; Cavite Navy Yard; Bataan Death March; POW
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-327 Interviewee: Honald Bucker; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 2, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:49:34
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Hulen, Texas; 35th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Discharge Form
EL-VOH-WWII-328 Interviewee: Charles McCalla; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 15, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:17
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Benning, Georgia; Omaha Beach; 397th Infantry, 100th Division; France; POW
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-329 Interviewee: Jack Harris; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:58:51
Subjects: NYA; Air Corps; Basic Training – Enid Army Air Field, Oklahoma; B-25; India; 530th Fighter Squadron, 513th Fighter Group; China
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
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EL-VOH-WWII-330 Interviewee: Bill V. Brumley; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 7, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:15:54
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Kaneohe Naval Air Station; USS Saratoga; Fiji; USS Biloxi; Truk; Kwajelein; Saipan; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-331 Interviewee: Chuck Berry; Tahlequah, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 8, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:02:45
Subjects: Civilian Military Training Camp; NYA; Army; Glider Pilot; 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-332 Interviewee: George Simmons; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 15, 2003 Format: 8mm of second tape only with DVD reference copy of entire interview TRT: 2:56:24
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Enid Air Base; Flight Training; 371st Fighter Group, 405th Squadron; POW; Stalag Luft 1; Korean War
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Pictures from Time as German POW; Typed Notes on Experience as a POW
EL-VOH-WWII-333 Interviewee: Charlie Becker; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 8, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:26:36
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Jefferson Barracks; 47th Tank Battalion, 14th Armored Division; France; Germany; Moosburg; POWs
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-334 Interviewee: Clinton Waite; Spulpa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Kimberly Emberson Date of Interview: June 28, 2004 Format: VHS with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:25:00
Subjects:
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EL-VOH-WWII-335 Interviewee: Bob Berline; Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 8, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:05:00
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division; Cape Gloucester; Pavuvu; Pelilu; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-336 Interviewee: Irvin L. “Jack” Luthi; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 3, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:45:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Polk; 2nd Armored Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; OCS; Camp Shelby; Korea; 2nd Infantry Division
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-337 Interviewee: Lois Byers; Albany, Oregon Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:20:00
Subjects: American Home Front; Western Pipe and Steel Shipyards, Hunter’s Point, San Francisco, California; Wilmington Shipyards, Long Beach, California
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-338 Interviewee: Ray Richmond; San Diego, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:60:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Newspaper Article on Pearl Harbor Survivors; Copies of Reminiscences on Pearl Harbor Attack
EL-VOH-WWII-339 Interviewee: Herbert N. Bell; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Katrina L. Bell Date of Interview: November 4, 2004 Format: VHS tape TRT: 0:17:02
Subjects: Iwo Jima.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-340 Interviewee: Truman and Margot Smith; Interviewer: Emily Beier Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS tape TRT: 0:37:41
Subjects: Life in Germany;
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-341 Interviewee: Virgil Miller; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Alicia Edwards Date of Interview: unknown Format: VHS tape TRT: 0:33:57
Subjects:
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-342 Public Forum of World War II U.S. Army Reunion in Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date: April 10, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:17:29
Subjects:
EL-VOH-WWII-343 Interviewee: Helen Mossman; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 2, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:27
Subjects: Civilian in Philippines; Negros Island; Evade Japanese; Filipino Guerilla Fighters; Leyte Island
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-344 Interviewee: Delbert O’Neal; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 26, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:00:29
Subjects: CCC; Army; Basic Training – Camp McCain, Mississippi; Tennessee Maneuvers; 87th Infantry Division; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-345 Interviewee: Forrest C. Lawrence; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:42:35
Subjects: Army; 52nd Battalion, 9th Armored Division; Omaha Beach; Battle of the Bulge; France; Germany; Battalion Surgeon
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-346 Interviewee: Francis Langdon; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 21, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:06:27
Subjects: Navy; Flight Training; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Submarine Service; USS Silversides; Guam
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-347 Interviewee: Jack L. Smith; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 1, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:58:08
Subjects: CCC; Army; Basic Training - Palacious, Texas; 554th Anti-Aircraft, 29th Division; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-348
Interviewee: James W. Young; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 3, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:37:24
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Wolters, Texas; 744th Military Police Battalion; POW Camp in Ogden, Utah; Japanese War Crimes Trials
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-349 Interviewee: Elvas Keaton; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 30, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:44:48
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – Camp Pendleton, California; Saipan; 2nd Regiment, 2nd Marine Division; Okinawa; Japan; Nagasaki
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-350 Interviewee: Earl Walls; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 23, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:33:10
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Philippines; Cebu Island; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-351 Interviewee: Rea Allen; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 14, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:24:47
Subjects: American Home Front; Douglas Aircraft Factory, Tinker Air Force Base; Naval Base, Norman, Oklahoma
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-352 Interviewee: Bill Mushunkashey; Pawhuska, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 26, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:13:48
Subjects: Missouri Military Academy; Army; Basic Training - Camp Roberts, California; 147th Infantry; Iwo Jima; Tinian
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-353 Interviewee: Emil Malick; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 23, 2004 Format: 8mm TRT: 1:14:40
Subjects: Work Deferment - Bendix Aviation; B-25s; Naval Officer; Bureau of Aeronautics; Pacific Theater
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-354 Interviewee: Harold Johnson; Oak Harbor Washington Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 16, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:02:30
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Worden; Coral Sea; Midway; Aleutians; Caribbean; Leyte Gulf; Okinawa; Korean War
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-355 Interviewee: Willie Roesling; Canyon Lake, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 16, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:03
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Midway; Pearl Harbor; Tug #146
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-356 Interviewee: Bill Hartwig; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 3, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:47:31
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; 116th Regiment, 76th Division; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Discharge Form
EL-VOH-WWII-357 Interviewee: Earl Ellsworth; El Reno, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 28, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:53:46
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Brooks Field, Texas; 34th Pursuit Squadron; Philippines; Bataan Death March; POW; Manchuria
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-358 Interviewee: Herman Jones; Anaheim, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:55:57
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Porter; USS Abner Read; Kiska Island; Leyte Gulf
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-359 Interviewee: Daryl Finch; Rio Vista, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 16, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:46:59
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Oklahoma; Naval Air Station, Ford Island; Pearl Harbor
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-360 Interviewee: Kitty Clair; Fairfield, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:26:12
Subjects: American Home Front; Mare Island Navy Shipyards
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-361 Interviewee: Walter Becker; Casper, Wyoming Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 16, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:20:09
Subjects: German Immigrant; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Blue; Guadalcanal; USS Victoria; USS Bismarck Sea; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-362 Interviewee: Don Baldrachi; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 12, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:27:51
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Schofield Barracks; Hawaii; New Caledonia; Guadalcanal; Auckland
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-363 Interviewee: Ed Pennington; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 4, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:51:34
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort F. E. Warren, Wyoming; Alaska; Skagway Port of Debarkation; Yermo, Mojave Desert
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Account of Pennington’s Military Career
EL-VOH-WWII-364 Interviewee: Charles Meeks; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 13, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:58:15
Subjects: Navy; 14th Naval District; Combat Naval Intelligence; Amphibious Training Base
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Letter Ordering Meeks to Active Duty; Copy of Letter from Meeks to Joint Intelligence Center; Copy of Letter to Meeks from Navy; Copy of Promotion Questionnaire; Copy of Letter from Medical Department; Copy of Personnel List; Note to Interviewer; Two Original Forms – Troop Billet and Clothing Inventory; Copies of Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-365 Interviewee: John Cole; Santa Clara, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 16, 2004 Format: two 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:48:52
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; Guadalcanal; USS Helena; Hawaii; Korean War
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-366 Interviewee: Lillian Smith; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 31, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:24:23
Subjects: Civilian in Canada; Worked for Al-Can Highway
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-367 Interviewee: Ralph Greenwood; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 27, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:54
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Miami, Florida; Training; B-17; 349th Squadron, 100th Bomb Group; England
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copies of Discharge Forms; Copy of Training Certificate; Copy of Certificate of Membership for “Luckye Bastardes Club”
EL-VOH-WWII-368 Interviewee: Richard Horton; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 10, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:59
Subjects: Air Corps; 1363rd Corps Combat Military Police; India; China; Burma
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-369 Interviewee: Henry Long, Jr.; Olympia, Washington Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:19:10
Subjects: Navy; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Schley; H. H. McCray
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Note to Interviewer; Copy of Magazine Article, “Tactical Exercises Ended”
EL-VOH-WWII-370 Interviewee: LaWanda Bingham Posten; Owasso, Oklahoma Interviewer: Cheryl A. Leach, Northeastern State University, Broken Bow Campus Date of Interview: June 26, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:33:13
Subjects: no transcript in box
EL-VOH-WWII-371 Interviewee: Ken Miles; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 2, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:60:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Mechanic; 1st Ferrying Squadron, 6th Ferrying Group
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-372 Interviewee: Helga Hickman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 1, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 1:20:00
Subjects: Civilian in Germany; Hitler Youth; Russian Zone; West Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-373 Interviewee: Carol Vaughn; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 22, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:40:00
Subjects: American Home Front; Navy; Recreation Center for Veterans, Bethesda, Maryland
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-374 Interviewee: Clayton Evans; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 10, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:30:00
Subjects: Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D.C.; Navy; Boot Camp – Sampson, New York; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.; Bikini Atoll; Atomic Bomb
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-375 Interviewee: George Hickman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 13, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:55:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Knox, Kentucky; Medical Corps; 24th Constabulary Squadron; Divided Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-376 Interviewee: Samuel Moore, M.D.; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 7, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 1:50:00
Subjects: Army; Hospital, March Field, California; 81st Fighter Group; North Africa; Kasserine Pass; Sicily, Italy; India, China
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-377 Interviewee: Gerald Halterman; Framingham, Massachusetts Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 18, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:50:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; 14th Naval District, Hawaii; Pearl Harbor; V-12 Program
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-378 Interviewee: Henry Bellmon; Billings, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 16, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 0:60:00
Subjects: Marines; Officers Training; 4th Marine Division; Marshall Islands; Saipan; Tinian; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-379 Interviewee: Henry Young; Oglesby, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 13, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: @ 1:15:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 301st Seabee Battalion; YM-18 Indiana; Guam; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs of YM-18 Indiana
EL-VOH-WWII-380 Interviewee: Ken Wheat; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 2, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:35:18
Subjects: NYA; Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 4th Battalion, 10th Regiment, 2nd Marine Division; Saipan; Tinian; Marianas; Okinawa; Fake Landings
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Group Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-381 Interviewee: Evelyn Whitfield; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 30, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:53:16
Subjects: Civilian in Philippines; Invasion of Philippines; Interned by Japanese; Santo Tomas; Camp Holmes; Bilibud Prison
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Pamphlet on Whitfield’s Memoir
EL-VOH-WWII-382 Interviewee: Al Wright; Skiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 26, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:56:23
Subjects: CCC; Air Corps; Basic Training – Hickham Field, Hawaii; 394th Bomb Squadron; Pearl Harbor; Fiji; B-17; Guadalcanal
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-383 Interviewee: Harley Richardson; Bethany, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 15, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:48:30
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Hulen, Texas; 103rd Infantry Division; France; Austria; Dachau
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-384 Interviewee: Agnes Allsup; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 23, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:22:34
Subjects: Civilian in Hawaii; Pearl Harbor; Kaneohe Naval Air Station
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-385 Interviewee: Howell Ballard; Kellyville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 20, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:17:26
Subjects: Army; Fort Armstrong, Hawaii; 3609th Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company; Pearl Harbor; Saipan
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-386 Interviewee: Edna Simpson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 16, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:35:08
Subjects: Civilian in America; Reda Pump Company
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-387 Interviewee: Eugene Fox; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 9, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:55:50
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Plattsburg, New York; 51st Engineer Combat Battalion; North Africa; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-388 Interviewee: James Stapleton; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 20, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:46:06
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Callin, California; 303rd Battalion, 97th Division; France; Germany; Flossenburg
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-389 Interviewee: Edmund Gates; Ralston, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 7, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:37:48
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; 422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group; England; B-17; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Photographs from WWII; Handwritten Notes on Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-390 Interviewee: Fred D. Wilson; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 30, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:02:18
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Liaison Pilot Training; 746th Squadron, 456th Bomb Squadron; 15th Air Force; Italy
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Bound Copy of “Fifty- One Combat Missions with the 15th US Air Force in B-24s, Italy, 1944,” is a Typed Copy of Wilson’s Wartime Diary, Edited by Eric G. Hinrichs
EL-VOH-WWII-391 Interviewee: Joe Allsup; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 23, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:21:17
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Kaneohe Naval Air Station, Hawaii; Midway; Pearl Harbor
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-392 Interviewee: Marion Messenger; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 15, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:03:21
Subjects: Oklahoma National Guard; Louisiana Maneuvers; Air Corps; B-24s; 449th Bomb Group; Italy; Korean War
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-393 Interviewee: Wally Schatz; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 20, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:54:07
Subjects: POW Camp at Tonkawa; Marines; Boot Camp – Camp Pendleton, California; Saipan; 2nd Marine Division; Saipan; Guam; 29th Regiment, 6th Marine Division; USS Hensdale; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-394 Interviewee: Truman Smith; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 9, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:04:52
Subjects: Citizens Training Camp, Fort Sill; Air Corps; Flight Training; 550th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group; England; B-17
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Business Cards
EL-VOH-WWII-395 Interviewee: Max Leroy Cook; Copan, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 16, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:14
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Buckley Field, Colorado; Training; March Field
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-396 Interviewee: Mary Porter; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 8, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:40:46
Subjects: American Home Front; Ration Office, Nowata, Oklahoma
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-397 Interviewee: Nellie Kennedy; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 13, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:34:01
Subjects: American Home Front; Western Gear Works, Seattle, Washington; Associated Shipyards; Consolidated Aircraft
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-398 Interviewee: Alvin Ciskowski; Ponca City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 27, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:37
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Maxey; 406th Field Artillery; Louisiana Maneuvers; Omaha Beach; France; Chaplain’s Assistant; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Map Detailing Actions of the 406th Field Artillery Group from France to Czechoslovakia
EL-VOH-WWII-399 Interviewee: Arlon Jenkins; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 19, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:57:22
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 8th Marine Regiment, 8th Marine Division; Camp Salt Lake, Hawaii; Pearl Harbor; 2nd Service Engineer Battalion; Guadalcanal; Guam; Iwo Jima; Japan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Japanese Surrender; Typed Notes from Jenkins on Life Before WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-400 Interviewee: Dorothy Gravino; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 12, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:09:46
Subjects: Civilian in England; Evacuate London; Bombing of London; War Bride
Additional Material: Copies of Two Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-401 Interviewee: Josef Derryberry; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 25, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:01:37
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Training; 455th Bomb Group; Italy; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Handwritten Notes on Derryberry’s Life
EL-VOH-WWII-402 Interviewee: DeWayne Maddox; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 24, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:51 & 1:54:39
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; 2nd Squadron, 22nd Bomb Group; Hawaii, Australia; New Guinea; B-25; B-24
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-403 Interviewee: Charles F. Peay; Sand Springs, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 2, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:33:58
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Maryland; Pearl Harbor; Tarawa; Kwajalein; Marianna Turkey Shoot; Saipan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-404 Interviewee: Jack Skaggs; Edmond, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 15, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:11
Subjects: 70th Artillery, 45th Division, Oklahoma National Guard; Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 1st Defense Battalion; Wake Island; POW; China; Japan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Photograph Taken while POW; Internet Printouts on Wake Island
EL-VOH-WWII-405 Interviewee: Ken Neubauer; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 10, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:56:38
Subjects: Naval Aviation Corps; Flight Training; USS Kitkin Bay; Philippines; USS Savo Island; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-406 Interviewee: Connie Cox; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 14, 2004 Format: 8mm video tape TRT: 0:33:04
Subjects: American Home Front; Rationing Office, Stigler, Oklahoma
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of a Photograph of Rationing Office’s Staff
EL-VOH-WWII-407 Interviewee: Bill Cox; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 30, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:19:03
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Air-Ground Liaison; Aleutians; 2nd Marine Division; Tarawa; Saipan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Original and Copy of a Japanese Document Found in a Bunker
EL-VOH-WWII-408 Interviewee: Doyle Mitchell Cox; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 1, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:23:04
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp McCain, Mississippi; Tennessee Maneuvers; 623rd Medical Clearing Company; Utah Beach; Mobile Field Hospital; Concentration Camps
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Picture of a Key to a Bunker Along the Maginot Line, Moved to Museum Collection; Typed Account of Military Service; Note to Interviewer
EL-VOH-WWII-409 Interviewee: R.L. Henson; Barnsdall, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 12, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:49:50
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Saratoga; Bougainvile; New Georgia; Gilbert Islands; Marshal Islands; Sabang; Soerbaja; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-410 Interviewee: Floyd Allison; Barnsdall, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 12, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:29:54
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Fannin, Texas; 41st Infantry Division; Biak Island; Philippines; Japan; Hiroshima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-411 Interviewee: Carl C. Williams; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 15, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:41:07
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Blanding, Florida; France; 9th Infantry Division; Concentration Camps; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Note on Military Service
EL-VOH-WWII-412 Interviewee: Doyal Gregg; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 10, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:34:34
Subjects: Air Corps; Training – Biloxi, Mississippi; Central India Air Depot, Agra, India
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-413 Interviewee: Alvin Berg; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 15, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:35:19
Subjects: CCC; Work Deferment – Soil Conservation Service
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-414 Interviewee: Bob Myers; Midwest City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 19, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:55:31
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; 787th Field Artillery; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Holland; Elbe River
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-415 Interviewee: Melvin Hoppock; Ochelata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 8, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:36:53
Subjects: Built Barracks; Seabees; Boot Camp – Williamsburg, Virginia; 23rd Seabee Battalion; Guam
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of “Lest We Forget!” by Harold Draney
EL-VOH-WWII-416 Interviewee: Hubert Cothern; Mulhall, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 14, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:22:30
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Barkley, Texas; 393rd Regiment, 99th Infantry Division; France; Belgium; Germany; POW
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-417 Interviewee: John Osborn; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 20, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:51:31
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Harris; Eniwetok; USS Ashland; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-418 Interviewee: Herbert N. Bell; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 7, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:18
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 5th Marine Division; Guadalcanal; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-419 Interviewee: Preston Scott; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 14, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:45:34
Subjects: Civilian Pilot Program; Air Corps; Flight Training; Air Transport Command; India
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-420-1--2 Interviewee: Carl D. Edwards; Vinita, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2004 Format: 2 8mm with 2 DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:09 and 0:27:28
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Keesler Field, Mississippi; Training; 739th Squadron, 454th Bomb Group; Africa; Italy; POW
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Handwritten Note on 2nd Lt. Arthur S. Frantz; Handwritten Account by Edwards of Military Career; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copies of Discharge Forms; Copy of Discharge Letter from Air Force; Copies of Citation Forms; Listing of Where Edwards was Stationed; Copy of Form Granting Edwards and Others Leave Before Reassignment; Copy of Gunner’s Flying Training Report; Copy of Personnel List; Copy of Army Form Listing Awards Given to Edwards; Copy of Service Records; Handwritten List of Missions; Copy of Individual Casualty Questionnaire Regarding Harry J. Barton; Copy of Unit Citation; Pamphlet Listing Ex-POWs of 1944 Romanian Raids; Copy of Letter Requesting Information on Plane Being Shot Down; Copy of Edwards’ Casualty Questionnaire; Copy of Air Force Records on POWs; Copy of Letter to Mrs. Grace Edwards Regarding Husband’s MIA Status; Copy of Letter Regarding POW Medal; Copies of Flight Records
EL-VOH-WWII-421 Interviewee: James Horner; Trout Run, Pennsylvania Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 27, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:00
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – Parris Island, South Carolina; 2nd Battalion; 2nd Marine Division; Guadalcanal; Guam; Saipan; Tinian
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-422 Interviewee: John Moland; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 15, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:55:51
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Conyngham; Santa Cruz; USS Hornet; Guadalcanal; Saipan; Eniwetok; Okinawa; USS Neshoba
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Notes on Moland’s Life; Internet Printouts on USS Conyngham (DD-371)
EL-VOH-WWII-423 Interviewee: Donald L. Fraser; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 19, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:49:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Flight Training; USS Sergeant Bay
Additional Material: Copy of Portrait from WWII-Era
EL-VOH-WWII-424 Interviewee: Leo Heidorn; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 26, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:48:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Claiborne, Louisiana; 30th Topographical Engineers; North Africa; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-425 Interviewee: Paul J. Murphy; Broomfield, Colorado Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 3, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:37:09
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; Fire Control; USS Indianapolis; Marianna Islands; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Tinian; Atomic Bomb
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-426 Interviewee: Rudie Janzen; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 8, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:00:51
Subjects: Instructor at New Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Notes on Janzen’s Wartime Activities
EL-VOH-WWII-427 Interviewee: Ira Williams, Jr.; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 30, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:26:43
Subjects: CCC; Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Louisville; USS Prince William; USS Seize; USS Vulcan; Philippines; Hiroshima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copy of Discharge Form
EL-VOH-WWII-428 Interviewee: Allen Withers; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 12, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:59:13
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 83rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion; Utah Beach; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copy of “A Month in the Life of the 83rd A.F.A,” focuses on March 1945; Copy of Army Qualification Separation Record
EL-VOH-WWII-429 Interviewee: Lora Davidson; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 18, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:34:53
Subjects: American Home Front; Boeing Aircraft, Wichita, Kansas
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-430 Interviewee: Bill Rigg; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 2, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Flight Training; 491st Bomb Group; England
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-431 Interviewee: William R. Hiatt; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 27, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:58:39
Subjects: Air Corps; Flight Training; 355th Bomb Group; Italy; POW; Stalag Luft III; Stalag VIIA
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-432 Interviewee: Mimi Todd; Carthage, Missouri Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 10, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:00:50
Subjects: Civilian in Italy; German Occupation; Hide Jews; War Bride
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-433 Interviewee: Joseph Ireland; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 4, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:29:22
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Bainbridge, Maryland; USS Pennywell; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-434 Interviewee: Fred Dunn; Pawhuska, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 18, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:25:24
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division; Saipan; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-435 Interviewee: W.F. Mitchell; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 10, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:45:35
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Clearwater, Florida; 306th Bomb Group; England
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-436 Interviewee: Julia Koplin; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 18, 2005 Format: DVD only TRT: 0:19:00
Subjects: American Home Front; Ration Office, Wichita, Kansas
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-437 Interviewee: Elizabeth Collins; Ramona, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 23, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:18:00
Subjects: Nurse Training, St. John’s Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Nurse Cadet Corps; 123rd Evacuation Hospital; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-438 Interviewee: Floyd E. Warren; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 10, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:39:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Bliss, Texas; Italy; 30th Division; D-Day; France; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-439 Interviewee: Earl Vaughn; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 20, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:21:55
Subjects: Civilian Pilot Program; Marines; Flight Training; Photographic Unit, VMD- 354; Pelilu
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-440 Interviewee: Emmett Steeds; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 15, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:05:06
Subjects: 179th Infantry, 45th Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; North Africa; Sicily; Italy; France; Dachau
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-441 Interviewee: Genevieve Ristau; Pittsburg, Kansas Betty Niegsch; Pittsburg, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 28, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:12:46
Subjects: Nurse Training at Mount Carmel Hospital, Pittsburgh, Kansas; Army Nurse Corps; 312th General Hospital; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Newspaper Article on Ristau and Niegsch; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-442 Interviewee: Vardon L. Goble; Owasso, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 7, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:39:01
Subjects: Merchant Marines; Boot Camp – Catalina Island, California; Transport; Italy; Alaska; Hawaii; Korean War
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-443 Interviewee: Harry Hodson, Jr.; Austin, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 11, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:37:48
Subjects: Coast Guard; Boot Camp – Manhattan Beach, New York; USS Joseph T. Dickman; D-Day; Utah Beach; Okinawa; POWs
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Timeline of Experiences During WWII; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copy of 1945 Christmas Menu for USS Joseph T. Dickman; Copy of Battle Histories for Coast Guard Ships, Including USS Joseph T. Dickman; Copy of Wartime Journal, from December 1944 to March 1946; Print-out of E-mail Summarizing USS Joseph T. Dickman’s Actions on D- Day; Typed Copy of Wartime Journal, with Additional Information
EL-VOH-WWII-444 Interviewee: Clay Harris; Sycamore, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 21, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:54
Subjects: Army; 60th Coastal Artillery; Bataan; Corregidor; Philippines; POW
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-445 Interviewee: Burton Keeble; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 20, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:32:16
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; Hospital Corps; Navy Hospital, Corona, California; USS Billy Mitchell; Solomon Islands; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-446 Interviewee: Fred Storer; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 29, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:36:26
Subjects: Civilian Military Training Camp; Boeing Aircraft, Wichita, Kansas; Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; 16th Bomb Group; Guam
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Postcard to Interviewer with Brief Summary of Actions During WWII-Era; Note to Interviewer; Copy of the First Page of “B-29” by Jacob Vander Muelen; Copy of Handwritten Notes on B-29, Boeing, Air Corps; Bound Copy of “As I Remember…” Compiled to Mark Storer’s 80th Birthday, Focuses on Life Before War
EL-VOH-WWII-447 Interviewee: Evelyn Pitts; Skiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 29, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:52:38
Subjects: American Home Front; Tent Factory; Douglas Aircraft
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-448 Interviewee: Henry C. (Hank) Pearman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 24, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:06:03
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – McDill Field, Florida; Bombardier; Atomic Bomb Test
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-449 Interviewee: Jim Marion; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 18, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:37:51
Subjects: American Home Front; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Sandoval; Train Chinese Forces
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-450 Interviewee: Charles Keebler; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 9, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:44
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Camp Davis, North Carolina; 96th Coastal Artillery; Flight Training; 410th Bomb Group; France; D-Day
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII, Including Bomb Photos
EL-VOH-WWII-451 Interviewee: Eileen Barnes; Skiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 11, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:34:03
Subjects: Nurse Training, St. John’s Hospital, Rapid City, South Dakota; Army Nurse Corps; Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-452 Interviewee: Felicia Miron; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 8, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:35:33
Subjects: Civilian in Poland; German Invasion; Russian Occupation; Siberia
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-453 Interviewee: Rudolph Rogers; Hominy, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 2, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:45:16
Subjects: Joined the National Guard; 1940 Maneuvers; USS Calvert; North Africa; Salerno; Anzio; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-454 Interviewee: R.B. Trafford; Ramer, Alabama Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 29, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:38:20
Subjects: Army; Camp Robinson; Arkansas; Louisiana Maneuvers; 320th Infantry, 35th Division; D-Day; Omaha Beach; St. Lo; Bastogne; Elbe River
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-455 Interviewee: Wade Holt; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewee: Christeline Holt; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:53:45
Subjects: Wade Holt — Basic Training – Camp Barkley, Texas; Medical Corps; 242nd General Hospital; France
Christeline Holt— American Home Front
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-456 Interviewee: Sam Childers; Sand Springs, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 10, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:13:43
Subjects: American Home Front; Merchant Marines; Boot Camp – Sheep’s Head Bay, New York; SS Marine Angel; Transport POWs and Internees
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-457 Interviewee: Karl K. Kinney; Sperry, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 10, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:15:56
Subjects: Douglas Aircraft; Merchant Marines; Boot Camp – Sheep’s Head Bay, New York; SS Florence L. Lee; Italy; Transport Troops and Supplies
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Discharge Form
EL-VOH-WWII-458 Interviewee: Ed Boles; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 31, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:52:54
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Callin, California; 124 Anti-Aircraft Artillery; England; France; Germany; Battle of the Bulge; Dachau
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-459 Interviewee: Eugene Ker; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 9, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:13:44
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Fannin, Texas; France; 134th Infantry, 35th Division; Bastogne; Luxembourg, Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copy of Newspaper Article on Ker; Copy of Mail from Selective Service Office; Copy of Red Cross Bill; Copy of Letter from Navy Rejecting Ker for Flight Training; Copy of Pay Record; Copies of Medical Records; Copies of Newspaper Articles, Not on Ker; Copy of Christmas Card from 1945; Copy of Information Card from Van Nuys Veterans’ Information Center; Copies of Cards (1 prayer, 1 business) from December 1945; Copy of Separation Qualification Record; Copy of Note Entitled “Old Geezers”; Typed Notes on Military Career and Life Experiences
EL-VOH-WWII-460 Interviewee: George Birdwell; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 31, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:20:44
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Texas; 380th Coast Artillery; Puerto Rico; 102nd Division; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-461 Interviewee: Dorothy Toalson; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 30, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:45
Subjects: Reda Pump, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Marines; Aviation Machinist Mate School, Norman Navy Base
Additional Material: Copies of Portraits from 1975 and c.2005
EL-VOH-WWII-462 Interviewee: Helen Kinney; Sperry, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 10, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:19:59
Subjects: American Home Front; Sang in Trio Named Victory Paraders
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-463 Interviewee: Billy Gene Wesson; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 27, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:16
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Curtis; Tarawa; Eniwetok; Saipan; Okinawa; China
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-464 Interviewee: Wayne Todd; Parsons, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 1, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:59:16
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Eustis, Virginia; 465th Anti-Aircraft Unit; Training; Utah Beach; France; 377th Infantry, 95th Division; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-465 Interviewee: Everett Truman Geouge; Miami, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 14, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:25:32
Subjects: CCC; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Training; Solomon Islands; VPB-44
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-466 Interviewee: Bud Bridenstine; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 16, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:08:06
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 2nd Marine Raiders; Guadalcanal; Guam; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII, including Guam, Guadalcanal; Copy of “In Foxhole, True American Spirit Embraces POW,” from The Orlando Sentinel, November 6, 2004; Copies of Records from the Marine Corps
EL-VOH-WWII-467 Interviewee: Willard Brashiers; Elk City, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 27, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:45:06
Subjects: CCC; Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Indianapolis; Wake Island; 4th Marine Division
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-468 Interviewee: Truman Lee; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 26, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 40:10
Subjects: Work Deferment – Post Office, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Navy; Company Mail Clerk; Fleet Post Office
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Sheet with Information on Railway Post Office
EL-VOH-WWII-469 Interviewee: Harold Walls; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 21, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:15:55
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; Flight Training; Air Transport Command; Brazil
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-470 Interviewee: Warren G. Llewellyn; Collinsville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 14, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:04:53
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Radar; CACSU 35; Eniwetok; USS Dashing Wave
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-471 Interviewee: Mary Lyke; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 25, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 26:24
Subjects: American Home Front; Sunflower Ordnance Works, Lawrence, Kansas
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-472 Interviewee: Gene Schindler; Sedan, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 18, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:00:00
Subjects: 158th Infantry, Arizona National Guard; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Paul Jones; Philippines; Balikpapan; Makassar Straits; Java Sea; Bali Straits; USS Gwin; Guadalcanal; USS Tingey; Korean War
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Cover and a Page from “Hawk Talk,” November 8, 1941; Copies of Calendars from 1941 and 1942 with Day’s Events Recorded; Copy of Newspaper Article
EL-VOH-WWII-473 Interviewee: Bob French; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 26, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 49:21
Subjects: ROTC; Army; OCS; 2884th Engineer Port Repair Ship, USS Arthur C. Ely; Eniwetok; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of 2884th Engineer Service Detachment’s Unit History; Copy of Citation for Soldier’s Medal; Copied Pages from a Manual for Engineer Port Repair Ship Units
EL-VOH-WWII-474 Interviewee: Lucy Rybka; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 27, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 52:09
Subjects: American Home Front; Sunshine Ordnance Works, Parsons, Kansas
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-475 Interviewee: Thomas Ray Brink; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 15, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 56:53
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; LSM-36 Engine Room; Borneo; Korea
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-476 Interviewee: Julius Schneider; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 27, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 61:63
Subjects: Work Deferment – Phillips Petroleum Company
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-477 Interviewee: Ray Holman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 2, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT:
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Wolters, Texas; 1st Infantry Division; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Holland; POW; Stalag IIB; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
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EL-VOH-WWII-478 Interviewee: Harold Morton; Sedan, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 18, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 49:33
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 102nd Division; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-479 Interviewee: Emily Goble; Owasso, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 7, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 16:11
Subjects: American Home Front
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII-Era
EL-VOH-WWII-480 Interviewee: Dale Chase; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 10, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:29:40
Subjects: Merchant Marines; Boot Camp – Catalina Island, California; SS Stephen Gerard; SS Cities Service; Transport Supplies
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-481 Interviewee: Ivan Koplin; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 18, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 46:56
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Communication Training; Hawaii; Eniwetok
Additional Material – Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-482 Interviewee: H. Wayne Cox; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 8, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:36
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Aviation Radio School; SS Elhiue Thompson; Espiritu Santo
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-483 Interviewee: George Utterback; Sedan, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 20, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:03:05
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Training; 417th Bomb Group; Japan; Korea; Hiroshima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-484 Interviewee: Bea Sanbrano; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 8, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 58:20
Subjects: American Home Front; Phillips Petroleum
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-485 Interviewee: Jack W. Stephenson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 11, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:03:21
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Fannin, Texas; 2nd Infantry Division; Omaha Beach; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Copy of Abbreviated WWII Military Record
EL-VOH-WWII-486 Interviewee: Don Fuqua; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 18, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 44:33
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; Corpsman; Quarantine
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-487 Interviewee: Eugene Stevens; Parsons, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 4, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 50:23
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Louisiana Maneuvers; 901 Aviation Engineers; Dummy Airplanes; Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-488 Interviewee: Stephen W. Bowman; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 18, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 38:23
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Puerto Rico; B-29 Mechanic; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-489 Interviewee: Leon S. Scarbrough; McAlester, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 21, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:19:25
Subjects: Kaiser Shipyards, Richmond, California; McAlester Naval Ammunition Depot, Oklahoma; Army; Basic Training – Fort F. E. Warren, Wyoming; 539th Quartermaster Salvage and Repair Company; Bougainville; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Letter from 1944; Three Pieces of V-Mail (2 from 1944, 1 from 1945); Copies of Photographs from WWII, Including USO Show with Bob Hope; Alternate Version of Interview, “Veteran Tells of WWII Experience in Pacific”
EL-VOH-WWII-490 Interviewee: Dee Burns; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 17, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:05
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; Tank Driver; North Africa; 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division; Sicily; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-491 Interviewee: Orville T. Holley; Shiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 19, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 52:58
Subjects: Metal Goods Corporation, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Navy; Boot Camp – Gulfport, Mississippi; USS Franklin
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-492 Interviewee: T.L. Harvey; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 31, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:58
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; MP; Nashville, Tennessee; 71st Division; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-493 Interviewee: Paddy & Sheila Gaddis; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 24, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 56:29
Subjects: England; Royal Artillery, Wales; London; Blitz; War Bride
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Newspaper Articles, Focus on Arrival of War Brides
EL-VOH-WWII-494 Interviewee: Ramon Barrows; Deer Creek, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 5, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 47:58
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wallace, Texas; 98th Division; Canton Island; Marshall Islands; Kwajalein; Eniwetok
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-495 Interviewee: Clarence Pippin; Skiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 13, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 30:09
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Crowder, Missouri; 3775th Signal Service Detachment; Alaskan Communication System
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-496 Interviewee: John Gardner; Ochelata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 23, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:15:07
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Wallace; Navy; USS Choctaw; USS Birmingham; Okinawa; Australia
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII, Primarily of Crossing the Line Ceremony
EL-VOH-WWII-497 Interviewee: William H. Howarth; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 18, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 55:35
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 2nd Airdrome Battalion; 2nd Marine Division; Tarawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-498 Interviewee: Al Ford; Collinsville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 14, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 52:24
Subjects: Douglas Aircraft; Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; Whitby Island Naval Air Station, Washington; Test Torpedoes
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-499 Interviewee: Robert J. Murphy; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 3, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:26:19
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; Aviation Machinist Mate School, Norman Navy Base; CACSU-7; USS Essex; Air Group 83; Yap; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-500 Interviewee: Barbara Tillman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 17, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:26, 30:53
Subjects: Civilian in Poland; Polish Underground; Majdanek Concentration camp; Warsaw Ghetto
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-501 Interviewee: Phillip M. Rafferty; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 12, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 46:54
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; 25th Medical Depot Company; India; Burma Road
Additional Material: Copy of Current portraits; Copies of Army Records
EL-VOH-WWII-502 Interviewee: Robert Pethick; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 21, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 50:10
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Jackson, South Carolina; Louisiana Maneuvers; 77th Division; Guam; Philippines; Ie Shima; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-503 Interviewee: Charles B. Anderson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 15, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:52
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Signal School; USS Owen; Marshall Islands; Mariannas Turkey Shoot; Battle of the Philippine Sea; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Letter from Navy’s District Civil Readjustment Office; Copy of Wartime Diary; Copies of Messages Received by the USS Owen; Handwritten Notes on Life Experiences; Copy of USS Owen’s Battle Record; Copy of USS Owen’s History from the Office of Naval Record and History; Copy of a Photograph of the USS Owen; Copy of a Letter from James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; Packet of Information on the USS Owen
EL-VOH-WWII-504 Interviewee: John E. Fox; Skiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 11, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 34:08
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Barkley, Texas; 19th General Medical Laboratory; Manila
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-505 Interviewee: Ross Atkins; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 3, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:30
Subjects: Seabees; Boot Camp – Camp Bradford, Virginia; Company A-5, 76th Seabees; USS Arrow; Palmyra Island; Saipan; Guam
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-506 Interviewee: John Coyle; Sperry, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 10, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT:
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Lexington; Guam
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-507 Interviewee: Donald Clapsaddle; Collinsville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 22, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:34:01
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Pensacola, Florida; USS Hornet; USS Franklin; Kamikazes; USS Marshall
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Business Card from Military Order of the Purple Heart
EL-VOH-WWII-508 Interviewee: Lloyd DeShazer; Shiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 13, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 42:11
Subjects: CCC; Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Aircraft Mechanic School; Aleutians; England; 466th Bomb Group; Switzerland; Internment
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Handwritten Note
EL-VOH-WWII-509 Interviewee: John W. Pippin; Shiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 13, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 28:37
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; New Caledonia; USS J. Franklin Bell; Tulagi; LCI; Bougainville
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-510 Interviewee: Bob Lee Hall; Joshua, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 10, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:06, 55:46
Subjects: ROTC; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Brother MIA; USS Lapon; Truk; Guam; Malaysian Islands; Midway
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Photograph of Hall on the USS Lapon
EL-VOH-WWII-511 Interviewee: Wiley Scott; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 8, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:09:50
Subjects: Basic Training – Fort Benning, Georgia; 398th Combat Engineers; Tennessee Maneuvers; D-Day; Omaha Beach; St. Lo; France; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-512 Interviewee: Paul Hefty; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 6, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 58:29
Subjects: Work Deferment – Phillips Petroleum, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-513 Interviewee: Eldon Randolph; Ochelata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 28, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 42:17
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Chaffee; 717th Tank Battalion; France; Germany; Elbe River
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-514 Interviewee: Jesper Gosney; Avant, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 12, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:32:43
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; 319th Bomb Group; Sardinia; POW; Stalag Luft 1
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-515 Interviewee: Raymond White; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 24, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:05:15
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field; Langley Field; Somerstrom Fiord, Greenland; 138th Army Airways Communication System Squadron
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-516 Interviewee: Larry Hickey; Joplin, Missouri Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 3, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:14:37
Subjects: Naval Reserve; Ensign; Anti-Submarine Work; USS Hendon; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-517 Interviewee: Bill Gregory; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 17, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:42:44
Subjects: Air Corps; B-24; Italy; 459th Bomb Group; Romania; Switzerland; Internee
Additional Material: Internet Article on Internment in Switzerland; Typed Account of Wartime Service; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-518 Interviewee: Ralph W. Treeman; Sapulpa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 23, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:00:01
Subjects: ROTC; V-7 Program; PT-236; Tulagi; Bougainville
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-519 Interviewee: Eileen Switzer; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 25, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:00:34
Subjects: Civilian in England; London; Bombings; Land Army; War Bride
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Wedding Photo; Copy of Article on 50th Anniversary
EL-VOH-WWII-520 Interviewee: Joan Taylor; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 3, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 46:08
Subjects: Civilian in England; War Bride
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-521 Interviewee: Charles T. Carter; Independence, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 20, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 51:37
Subjects: ROTC; 359th Ordnance Company; Camp Samambula; Fiji
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-522 Interviewee: Helen Genevieve Boyce; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 10, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 50:07
Subjects: Army; Fort Benning; Stenographer; New Guinea; WAC; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Photographs from WWII; Note on Scrapbook Moved to Manuscript Collection
EL-VOH-WWII-523 Interviewee: Charles “Dusty” Bordner; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 1, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:51:09
Subjects: Air Corps; Training; Instructor, Gardner Field, California; 381st Bomb Group; England
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Note on Materials Moved to Manuscript Colelctions
EL-VOH-WWII-524 Interviewee: Robert Click; Sapulpa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 14, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:12:15
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Flight Training; B-17; 385th Bomb Group; Great Ashfield, England; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-525 Interviewee: Gerald Sears, Jr.; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 12, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:28:42
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 2nd Marine Division; Guadalcanal; Bougainville; Green Island; Guam; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-526 Interviewee: Jacqueline Stanley; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 19, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 49:15
Subjects: Women’s Army Corps; North Africa; Caserta, Italy; 2666th WAC Wire Company
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-527 Interviewee: Mary Voetelink; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 18, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 47:33
Subjects: Lived in Germany; Lived in Holland; Dutch Underground
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-528 Interviewee: Harvey Wesley Thompson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 1, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:05:08
Subjects: Deferment – Pocatello Oil Refinery; Air Corps; Basic Training – Kearns, Utah; 423rd Base Unit; B-24
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-529 Interviewee: Charles Parker Williams; Inola, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 25, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:02:11
Subjects: CCC; Army; Medic
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-530 Interviewee: Lawrence E. Vogel; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:15:06
Subjects: Beech Aircraft; Navy; Boot Camp – Norfolk, Virginia; Camp Perry, Virginia; Seabees; 501st Base Maintenance Unit; Banika Island, Russell Islands
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-531 Interviewee: Mary Cruce; Copan, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 12, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 47:16
Subjects: Department of the Navy; Marines; Parris Island, South Carolina; Interviewed Recruits; Camp LeJeune, North Carolina
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-532 Interviewee: Harry J. King; Mesa, Arizona Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 44:58
Subjects: Seabees; Boot Camp – Camp Allen, Virginia; Camp Perry, Virginia; 501st Seabees Base Maintenance Unit; Camp Domain, New Zealand; Banika Island
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-533 Interviewee: Lee Stone; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 18, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:36:28
Subjects: Basic Training – Fort Warren, Wyoming; OCS; Air Corps; 1221st Quartermaster Company, 84th Air Service Group; England; Utah Beach; France; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Copy of “Nothing is More Important Than This: A Criticism of International Power Politics and a Practical Alternative to War” by Stone
EL-VOH-WWII-534 Interviewee: M.H. Green, Jr.; Raleigh, North Carolina Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:22
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Bainbridge, Maryland; Radar; USS Rich; D-Day; Omaha Beach; USS Texas; Philippines; Iwo Jima; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-535 Interviewee: Joe Harris; Nacogdoches, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 45:43
Subjects: Seabees; 501st Combat Battalion Maintenance Unit CBMU; Boot Camp - Norfolk, Virginia; Electrician; New Zealand; Banika Island; Solomon Islands
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-536 Interviewee: Stephen Higginbotham; Lafayette, Louisiana Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 36:11
Subjects: Seabees; Navy; Boot Camp - Camp Allen; Camp Perry, Virginia; 501st Seabee Maintenance Unit; New Zealand; Banika Island
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-537 Interviewee: H.B. Sims; Tyrone, Georgia Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:32:17
Subjects: USS Rich; CCC; Navy; Boot Camp - Bainbridge, Maryland; Electrician; Shakedown Cruise; D-Day; Utah Beach; USS Nevada; USS Texas; Iwo Jima; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-538 Interviewee: Joseph Arthur Russell; Skiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 19, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 58:26
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Mississippi; 4th Division; Fiji; 2nd Division; Guadalcanal; Makin Island; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-539 Interviewee: Carl Stanley; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 19, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 48:44
Subjects: Coast Guard; Boot Camp – Alameda, California; Radar; Panama; USS Hngham; Army; Korean War; Japan
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-540 Interviewee: Keith McDowell; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 2, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:08:27
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Diesel School; USS Sentry AM- 299; Minesweeper; Philippines; Leyte Gulf; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Wartime Journal; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-541 Interviewee: Tiny “Fritz” Luinstra; Woodward, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 3, 2002 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 36:52
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; D Company, 6th Marine Regiment; Iceland; 2nd Marine Division; Guadalcanal; Tarawa; 27th Regiment, 5th Marine Division; Iwo Jima
Additional Material – Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript; Copy of Silver Star Record; Copy of “The Twenty Seventh Marines in Combat, February 19, 1945 – March 23, 1945” by Staff Sergeant Henry Giniger and Staff Sergeant Tony Smith, features handwritten comments; Copy of Newspaper Article, “Sands of Iwo Recall Bloody 36 Days in ’45,” from February 19, 1965; Copy of Magazine Article, “They Called it Death Valley,” by Sergeant Bill Miller; Personal Remarks on Iwo Jima from Luinstra
EL-VOH-WWII-542 Interviewee: Roy Hudson; Lynchburg, Virginia Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 6, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 56:14
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Bainbridge, Maryland; USS Rich; USS Nevada; D-Day; Utah Beach
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-543 Interviewee: Harold Turner; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 11, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 47:03
Subjects: Army; Basic Training - Fort Sill, Oklahoma; B Battery, 2nd Artillery Observation Battalion; Louisiana Maneuvers; Carolina Maneuvers; Camp Bowie; Oran, North Africa; Naples; Monte Cassino; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-544 Interviewee: Robert E. Frankenfield; Fort Worth, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 34:40
Subjects: Seabees; Boot Camp – Camp Perry, Virginia; 501st Construction Battalion Base Maintenance Unit; New Zealand; Camp Domain; Banika Island; Invasion Supplies
Additional Material: Copies of Current portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-545 Interviewee: Jack Lilburn; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 7, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:31
Subjects: NYA; Welding; Shipyard; Fort Sill; Army Air Corps; Jefferson Barracks; USS General R. L. Howze; 528th Bomb Squadron 380th Bomb Group; Australia; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-546 Interviewee: Jack Allen; Ramona, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 24, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 48:30
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; New Caledonia; Iwo Jima; Army; 147th Infantry Division; 3rd Marine Division; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-547 Interviewee: Dr. William Walker; Sedan, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 18, 2005 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 13:54
Subjects: Army; Letterman General Hospital; Camp Stoneman, California
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-548 Interviewee: Murl Turner; Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 13, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:24:49
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego; Camp Pendleton; 5th Marine Battalion; 31st Marine Replacement Battalion; Guam; Saipan; MP
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of a Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-549 Interviewee: Ivan Dale Brown; Lenapah, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 5, 2007 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:24:34
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Piote, Texas; England; 381st Bomb Group; Teletype Operator
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-550 Interviewee: Catherine Nellie Brown; Lenapah, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 5, 2007 Format: 8mm TRT: 0:32:36
Subjects: Douglas Aircraft
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-551 Interviewee: Harry E. Brown, Jr.; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 15, 2007 Format: 8mm TRT:
Subjects: Army; Fort Bragg; Battery A 4th Battalion; OCS; Fort Sill; Pilot; Fort Gordon Johnson; USS George Washington; Slapton Sands; Amphibious Training; D-Day; Utah Beach; Battle of the Bulge; Germany; Korean War
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Photograph from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-552 Interviewee: Bill Loffer; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 23, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:55:29
Subjects: Air Corps; Camp Kerns; Civilian Military Training Camp; Coffeyville; 455th Bomb Group; Tunis; Naples
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Photograph B- 24 Crew from 1944; Copy of Combat Record
EL-VOH-WWII-553 Interviewee: Michael Stecz; Castro Valley, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 2, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:45
Subjects: Navy; USS Oklahoma; Great Lakes Naval Training Station; Pearl Harbor; USS Salt Lake City; Wake Island; Guadalcanal; Kamchatka; Savo Island; USS Nestar; Buckner Bay
Additional Material: Copies of Current portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-554 Interviewee: Arthur Dunn; Belle Plaine, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2004 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:56:42
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; 2nd Division; Pearl Harbor; USS Louisville; Aleutians; Guadalcanal; USS Situla
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-555 Interviewee: Roelof A. Buitink; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 3, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:37:12
Subjects: Civilian in Holland; Esso Oil Company; Civilian Internment Camp, Amersfoort; Dutch Underground
Additional Material: Article from a Dutch Website Recalling Wartime Experiences
EL-VOH-WWII-556 Interviewee: Elwood (Bill) Hart; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 2, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:43:22
Subjects: ROTC; Army; Enlisted Reserve Corps; Camp Kohler; 26th Signal Battalion; Utah Beach; Driver; Graves Registration; Battle of the Bulge; Disputed Service Record
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII; Pamphlet on Hart’s Wartime Experiences and Artwork; Note About Disputed Service Record; Personal Account of Military Experience and the Effects of the War
EL-VOH-WWII-557 Interviewee: George G. (Jack) Copeland; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 13, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:30
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp - San Diego, California; Metal Smith School; USS Wharton; New Caledonia; Guadalcanal; CASU-11
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-558 Interviewee: Kenneth Spence; Pawhuska, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 15, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:14:05
Subjects: Naval Air Corps; Marines; Flight Training; Pelilu; Zamboanga; Korean War; POW
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-559 Interviewee: Marvin Purdy; Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 13, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:35:10
Subjects: Basic training at Camp Grant; Illinois; sent to Camp Bowie, Texas; trip to Cairo; Egypt by way of Rio de Janeiro on The Aquatania; dispatcher and ambulance driver
Additional Material: Copies of Photographs from WWII-Era; Typed Account of Wartime Service
EL-VOH-WWII-560 Interviewee: Charles Bevins; Parsons, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 16, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:16:14
Subjects: Air Corps; Gunnery School; B-24 Bomber; 458th Bomb Group
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Article on Kalamazoo Air Museum Display; 458th Bombardment Group’s Roster and Record, from Internet (2 Copies); Copies of Flight Records; Copies of Missions from NARA with Handwritten Notes; Copy of Letter Recommending Bevins to Serve as gunnery Instructor; Copy of Record for Flight to England; Copy of Loss Listing Record of 458th Bombardment Group
EL-VOH-WWII-561 Interviewee: Jewel Stewart; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 14, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:04:43
Subjects: Army; Basic Training - Camp Fannin, Texas; Company C, 158th Infantry, 6th Division; 8th Division; New Guinea; Milne Bay; Luzon
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Enlisted Record, Discharge Form
EL-VOH-WWII-562 Interviewee: John Favre; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 24, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:24:26
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Officers Boot Camp, Fort Schyler, New York; Radar; USS Lake Champlain
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-563 Interviewee: Robert Evans; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 30, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:12:15
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Salerno; Anzio; Company G, 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Division; Service Company; Monte Cassino; Dachau
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Handwritten Notes on Service
EL-VOH-WWII-564 Interviewee: Richard Kane; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 26, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:53:55
Subjects: 1936 Berlin Olympics; ROTC; Army Adjutant General School, Fort Washington; Fort Meade; Camp Wallace; Hawaii; Command and General Staff College
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Note to Interviewer, Typed Notes on War Record
EL-VOH-WWII-565 Interviewee: Hans Schmoldt; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 10, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:18:29
Subjects: Emigrated to US from Germany; Citizenship Issues; Phillips Petroleum in Borger, Texas; Rejected by Navy – Work Deferment
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-566 Interviewee: Richard Everett Bortz; Wichita, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 17, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:54:52
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Signal School; Liverpool; SS Isaac M. Singer; LCS-74; Guam
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-567 Interviewee: Sifney G. Roper, Sr.; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 22, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:28:33
Subjects: Conscientious Objector; Church of Christ; Preacher
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-568 Interviewee: William Wilson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 26, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:08:19
Subjects: Scottish Immigrant; Texas Defense Guard; Basic Training – Camp Plauche, Louisiana; Railroad Telegrapher; Italy; 66th Engineering Topographic Company; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-569 Interviewee: Ralph A. Myers; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 25, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:28
Subjects: Army ROTC; Army Specialized Training Program; Camp McCoy; 280th Combat Engineers; England; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-570 Interviewee: R.T. Shane; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 26, 1007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:57:50
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Makin Island; Electrician; Leyte Gulf; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Korean War; USS Tanager
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-571 Interviewee: Mack Brumfield; Owasso, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 7, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:52:49
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Reno, Oklahoma; Horses; India; Burma; Merrill’s Marauders; Myitkyina; China; Shanghai
Additional Material: Copies of Current portraits; Copies of WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-572 Interviewee: Richard Sumpter; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 11, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:38:00
Subjects: Navy; Idaho Voluntary Reserves; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Submarine School; USS Carp; Japan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-573 Interviewee: Ovid Elwood Ralph; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 24, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:58:00
Subjects: CCC; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Scouting Squadron 69; Hawaii
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-574 Interviewee: Robert Radebaugh; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 13, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:46:00
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Vela Lavela; Bougainville; 5th Marine Division; Tarawa; Iwo Jima; Japan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Handwritten Account of Service
EL-VOH-WWII-575 Interviewee: Blake Vinsant; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: Spetember 6, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:18:00
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Wolters; Veterinary Corps; Medical Corps; Officers Candidate School; 97th Division; Louisiana Maneuvers; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-576 Interviewee: Charles Smith; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 24, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:02:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Gunston Hall; Kwajalein; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Korean War
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-577 Interviewee: Gerald J. Lustila; Melvindale, Michigan Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 27, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:28:00
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; Fort Bliss, Texas; 72nd Ordnance Battalion, 10th Brigade; England; Omaha Beach; 8th Infantry Division; Elbe River
Additional Material: Handwritten Notes; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-578 Interviewee: Janneke Wilhelmina Buitink; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 29, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:15:00
Subjects: Civilian in England
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-579 Interviewee: Arthur Crittenden; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 26, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:43:00
Subjects: Basic Training – Rockford, Illinois; Camp Ellis; Medical Corps; 101st Airborne; North Africa; 44th Field Hospital; India; Burma
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copy of Discharge Form
EL-VOH-WWII-580 Interviewee: John Horn; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 12, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:37:00
Subjects: Army; ROTC; 164th Field Artillery, 40th Division; Guadalcanal; Luzon; Fort Lewis; Hawaii
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-581 Interviewee: Joseph Kesterson; Skiatook, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 30, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Camp Perry; USS St. Clair LST 1096; Okinawa; Transport Troops; Hiroshima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-582 Interviewee: Bobie Gene Patteson; Copan, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 16, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:41:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp - Farragut, Idaho; USS Mississippi; 5th Division Gunnery; Okinawa; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-583 Interviewee: Bill R. Cox; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 16, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:44:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Fannin, Texas; England; Utah Beach; 90th Division; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-584 Interviewee: Billy Joe Estes; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 13, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:18:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Gunnery School; 815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group; Austria
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-585 Interviewee: Frank Sears; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 8, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:00
Subjects: CCC; Navy; Boot Camp - San Diego, California; USS Essex; Welder; Marshall Islands; Philippines; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-586 Interviewee: Walt Sires; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 18, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:29:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Swift, Texas; 146th Combat Engineers; England; D-Day; Omaha Beach; St. Lo; Battle of the Bulge; Purple Heart
Additional Material: Copies of 18 Photographs from WWII; Copies of Current portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-587 Interviewee: Foster Hugh Vinsant; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 27, 1007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:53:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – San Antonio, Texas; Company E, 2nd Military Government Regiment; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-588 Interviewee: Duane Marquis; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 10, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:12:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Radio; Radar; USS Tutuila; China
Additional Material: Typed Notes on Service; Copies of 3 Photographs from WWII; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-589 Interviewee: Howard Barnes; Ochelato, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 16, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp - Farragut, Idaho; LST 495; Motor Machinist; England; D- Day; Omaha Beach; USS Palawan; Philippines; Japan
Additional Material: Photograph from WWII-Era; Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-590 Interviewee: Walter W. Gates; Torrance, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 19, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:40:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Civilian Pilot Training Program; Flight Training; Lemoore Field; Air Transport Command; Korean War; Greenland
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-591 Interviewee: Joe Korner; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 20, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; USS Azimech; Hawaii; Tarawa; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Typed Report on History of USS Azimech; Photocopies of a Japanese Passport, Photographs, Loose Papers; Card with Drawing on One Side, Japanese Writing on the Other
*Passport, Photographs, Papers, and Card Added to Museum Collection
EL-VOH-WWII-592 Interviewee: Rex Eutsler; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 19, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:00:00
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; England; 330th Regiment, 3rd Battalion Headquarters, 83rd Infantry Division; Radio; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-593 Interviewee: Robert L. McAnally; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 14, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:24:00
Subjects: New Mexico State Guard; Delivered Western Union Telegrams; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS DeGrasse; Majuro Island, Gilbert Islands; Saipan; Guam; USS Lofberg; Tokyo; China
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Picture of USS Lofberg
EL-VOH-WWII-594 Interviewee: Paul Blackwood; , Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 25, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:00
Subjects: Basic Training - Camp Wolters, Texas; Scotland; SHAEF; Buzz Bombs; France; Germany; V-E Day
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-595 Interviewee: James Wride; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 23, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:22:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Boca Raton, Florida; Maintenance Engineer Officer; 883rd Bomb Squadron, 500th Bomb Group; Saipan; Japan
Additional Material: Typed Reminiscences on Wartime Activities; Typed Copy of Article Announcing the Awarding of Distinguished Flying Cross to Members of the 883rd Bombardment Squadron, 500th Bombardment Group; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-596 Interviewee: Thompson Byrd Holleman; Rogue River, Oregon Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 29, 2007 Format: 8mm (includes interview EL-VOH-WWII- 597) with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:47:00
Subjects: Mississippi National Guard; Air Corps; Camp Shelby, Mississippi; Alaska; SS Juneau; Aviation Armor
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-597 Interviewee: Chester H. Holleman; Nixa, Missouri Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 29, 2007 Format: 8mm (includes interview EL-VOH-WWII- 596) with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:54:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Prairie; Electrical Division; Argentina; USS Harlan E. Stickel
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-598 Interviewee: Rollie Lykins; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 4, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:53:00
Subjects: Consolidated Steel Shipyards, California; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Leslie M. Shaw; Palestine; Sicily; SS W. S. Willitson; Kwajalein
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-599 Interviewee: Gene Kahler; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 21, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:53:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Army Administration; 21st Bomber Command; Saipan; Guam; Hiroshima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-600 Interviewee: John David Holyfield; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 17, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:51:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Miami Beach, Florida; Army Airway Communication Squadron; Cook’s Inlet, Alaska
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-601 Interviewee: W.L. Atkins; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 23, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Cavalier; China; Guam; USS Randall; Korean War; USS Nicholas
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-602 Interviewee: Norman B. Nelson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 22, 2006 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:27:00
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – St. Petersburg, Florida; 20th Bomber Command; Okinawa; India
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs; Three Letters to Interviewer, Contain Additional Reminiscences; Eight Copied Pages Documenting a Personnel Transfer to Eighth Air Force from July 1945; Copies of Letters Recommending Nelson for Promotion; Typed Excerpts from Letters; Typed Copy of War Diary, July 1945 – October 1945; Copy of Orders from March 1945; Copy of Personnel Transfer List, Separated by Race; Copy of Expense Report; Copy of Petition from January 1946 on Length of Postwar Service
EL-VOH-WWII-603 Interviewee: Jay P. Dalley; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 23, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:50:00
Subjects: Army; Basic Training - Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 179th Infantry, 45th Division; Reception Center at Fort Sill; Camp Chaffee, Arkansas
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Photograph of Men Assembled by Fort Sill’s Reception Station
EL-VOH-WWII-604 Interviewee: Oscar Fettig; Bella Vista, Arkansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 25, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:58:27
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; Fort Sam Houston; Camp McCoy; 3rd Battalion, 9th Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Eversharp Group 6
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Photo from WWII on a Postcard
EL-VOH-WWII-605 Interviewee: Elmer Scullawl; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 11, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:16;07
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Camp Wallace, Texas; USS St. Loius; 5th Division; Leyte Gulf; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-606 Interviewee: Howard Lee Henderson; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 21, 2007 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:53:02
Subjects: Scrap Metal Drives; Army; Basic Training – Fort Lewis, Washington; Inchon; 7th Division; Kojedo Island; NATO; Germany; Vietnam
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-607 Interviewee: Dale Battles; Shidler, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 2, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:10
Subjects: Glen L. Martin Aircraft Company; Army; Basic Training – Fort Benning, Georgia; 10th Armored Division; Cherbourg, France; Bastogne
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs of a Tank from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-608 Interviewee: Eugene Beleele; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 10, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:27:09
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Swift, Texas; 146th Combat Engineers; D-Day; Omaha Beach; St. Lo; France
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-609 Interviewee: Roy Bodkins; Bartlesvillee, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 18, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:24:21
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Japan; 39th Squadron; Tachikawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Interview Conducted by Daughter
EL-VOH-WWII-610 Interviewee: Orville Davis; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 8, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:13:26
Subjects: Pilot; Flying Instructors Program; Glider Pilot Instructor
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-611 Interviewee: Irene Anderson; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 10, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:39:24
Subjects: B & H Manufacturing, Wichita, Kansas; Riveter; Douglas Aircraft, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-612 Interviewee: J.C. Lynn; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 24, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:11:58
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Yokohama, Japan; 8th Engineers, 1st Cavalry Division; Camp Drake
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-613 Interviewee: Paul Gray; Collinsville, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 11, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:04:54
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Swift, Texas; 146th Combat Engineers; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Three Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-614 Interviewee: J.W. Crayton; Clinton, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 11, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:27:24
Subjects: Basic Training - Camp Swift; 146th Combat Engineers; D-Day; Omaha Beach; St. Lo; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-615 Interviewee: Clarence Earl McBride; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 1, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:22
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Louisiana Maneuvers; OCS at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; Signal Corps; 58th Signal Battalion Heavy Construction; New Guinea; Manila, Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copies of Photographs from WWII
EL-VOH-WWII-616 Interviewee: Mugg Pawless; Gainsville, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 11, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:23:39
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Swift, Texas; 146th Combat Engineers; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-617 Interviewee: Willetta McBride; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 1, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:30:07
Subjects: Women’s Army Corps; Fort Des Moines, Iowa; Pentagon; Fort Meyers, Virginia
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-618 Interviewee: Edward Vezey; Center, Colorado Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 27, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:23:49
Subjects: Navy ROTC; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; Hawaii; Gunnery Officer; USS Stratford; USS Rocky Mountain; Kwajalein; Saipan; Philippines
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-619 Interviewee: Johnie D. Surrett; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 5, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:30:34
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Bunker Hill; Tarawa; Kwajalein; Manila
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-620 Interviewee: Lamar Keith; Grove, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 11, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:14:33
Subjects: 179th Infantry, Oklahoma National Guard; Basic Training - Camp Swift; 146th Combat Engineers; D-Day; Omaha Beach; St. Lo; Belgium
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-621 Interviewee: William J. Jenkins; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 20, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:32:17
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; USS Corregidor; Makin Island, Gilbert Islands; Hollandia; Saipan; Eniwetok; Tinnian
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-622 Interviewee: Jim McFarland; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 23, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:30:21
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Mugford, DD-389; Tinian
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-623 Interviewee: Andrew Donovan Daniels, Jr.; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 19, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:46:54
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; ASTP Program; Camp Barkley, Texas; Fort Sam Houston; Military Police; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-624 Interviewee: Bert Shutt, Jr.; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 4, 1008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:29:33
Subjects: Army; Basic Training - Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 135th General Hospital, England
Additional Material: Copy of Photograph of 135th General Hospital Staff; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-625 Interviewee: David E. Martin; Columbus, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 21, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:42:25
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; 90th Seabees; Yokosuka, Japan
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-626 Interviewee: Virgil James Miller; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 21, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:08
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Mechanic; Whidbey Island, Washington; Guam, Tinian
Additional Material: 34 Original Photographs from WWII; Copies of Current and WWII- Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-627 Interviewee: William Gay; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 16, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:56:04
Subjects: Basic Training – Fort Lewis, Washington; 349th Engineers; Sullivan Brothers Rule
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-628 Interviewee: Harold Kuehn; South Coffeyville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 7, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:31
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Robinson, Arkansas; 87th Infantry Division; France; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: 3 Photographs from WWII; 2 New Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-629 Interviewee: Les Stewart; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 25, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:30:52
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Medical Training in Norfolk, Virginia; USS Monticello; POWs
Additional Material: Copies of 4 Photographs from WWII; Typed History of the USS Monticello; Handwritten Log for USS Monticello; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-630 Interviewee: Daniel Thompson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 4, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:57:16
Subjects: CCC; Army; Basic Training – Camp, Shelby, Mississippi; 119th Regiment, 30th Division; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-631 Interviewee: Jack Powell; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 31, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:11:54
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; 15h Air Depot Group; Australia; Leyte Gulf; POW Camp
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-632 Interviewee: Dave B. Hott; Euless, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 2, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:24:17
Subjects: ROTC; Infantry Officer’s Training - Fort Benning, Georgia; Camp Blanding, Florida; 2nd Regiment, 5th Infantry Division; Omaha Beach; Metz; France; Germany; POW Camp; Elbe River
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Copy of Silver Star Award; Typed Reminiscences of Wartime Experience
EL-VOH-WWII-633-1--2 Interviewee: Jack Boyd; Euless, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 17, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy #1 TRT: 1:58:36 #2 TRT: 1:59:16
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 2nd Marine Brigade; Iceland; Marine Raiders; 2nd Marine Raiders; Guadalcanal; Bougainville; Scouting; 5th Marine Division; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of 2 Photographs from WWII; Typed Note About Photograph; Hand Drawn Map of Guadalcanal
EL-VOH-WWII-634 Interviewee: Evelyn Stolp; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 26, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:35:44
Subjects: Work Deferment; Civilian in England; Blitz; War Bride
Additional Material: Copy of Wedding Picture; Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-635 Interviewee: Wes Ross; Hillsboro, Oregon Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 3, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:46:24
Subjects: ROTC; 146th Combat Engineers; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; 38th Cavalry Squadron; Battle of the Bulge
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-636 Interviewee: Carl Quillin; Wynona, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 14, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:53:08
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Adair, Oregon; 321st Engineer Battalion, 96th Division; Leyte Gulf; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-637 Interviewee: W.R. Hough; Hominy, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 5, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:37:19
Subjects: Marines; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; 2nd Marine Division; USS Harris; Guadalcanal; Tarawa; Hawaii
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-638 Interviewee: Bernard E.Meier; Dennison, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 3, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:54:24
Subjects: Westinghouse; Army; Basic Training – Fort Belvoir; OCS; 146th Combat Engineer Battalion; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of 10 Photographs from WWII; Note to Interviewer; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-639 Interviewee: Lewis Egnatovich; Lake City, Florida Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 29, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:13:24
Subjects: CCC; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Farragut; Coral Sea; Iwo Jima
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-640 Interviewee: Virgil D. Pfeifer; Corpus Christi, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 24, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:50:52
Subjects: 171st Field Artillery, 45th Infantry Division, Oklahoma National Guard; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; North Africa; Sicily; Italy; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-641 Interviewee: Bailey Rosoce: Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 2, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:30:40
Subjects: Suwannee Military Academy; Basic Training – Camp Blanding, Florida; 75th Station Hospital; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-642 Interviewee: Werner Stolp; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 26, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:32:42
Subjects: Aircraft Mechanic School; Scotland; England; 355th Fighter Group; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Wedding Picture; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-643 Interviewee: Annice J.Crimmins; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 4, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:57:23
Subjects: USO; Independence Air Field; Stenographic Pool, California Shipyards
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-644 Interviewee: Delamar Allen; South Coffeyville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 24, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:51:05
Subjects: Vultee Aircraft Company, San Diego, California; Air Corps; Joined Navy; USS Oklahoma; USS Medusa; Battle of Midway; Pearl Harbor
EL-VOH-WWII-645 Interviewee: William Hendley; Wilmington, North Carolina Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 28, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:26:24
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Norfolk, Virginia; USS Oklahoma; USS Sway; Italy; France; D-Day; Omaha Beach
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-646 Interviewee: Irene Trask; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 21, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 00:45:35
Subjects: Comanche County Ration Board
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-647 Interviewee: E.J. Walker; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 20, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:40:23
Subjects: Basic Training – Fort Knox, Kentucky; 777th Tank Battalion; France; Battle of the Bulge; Belgium; Germany; POW Camp
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-648 Interviewee: Bette Bradley; Fort Gibson, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 11, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:33:20
Subjects: Civilian in England; Blitz
Additional Material: Copy of New Photograph
EL-VOH-WWII-649 Interviewee: Mike Bradley; Fort Gibson, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 11, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:33:44
Subjects: Civilian in England; Bombing; Royal Armored Corps
Additional Material: Copy of New Photograph
EL-VOH-WWII-650 Interviewee: Wilbur Taylor; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 18, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:36:30
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Bowie, Texas; 815th Tank Destroyers, 1st Cavalry Division; 112th Cavalry; New Guinea; Leyte Gulf
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-651 Interviewee: Kenneth Owen; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 6, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:57:26
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – For Bliss, Texas; Belgium; 394 Infantry, 99th Division; Ruhr; Germany; POWs
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-652 Interviewee: Earl Fine; Bixby, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 19, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:04:50
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Lewis, Washington; Okinawa; Island Command Cemetery
Additional Material: Copies of 10 Photographs from WWII; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-653 Interviewee: Pidgean Burden; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 22, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:11:53
Subjects: Red Cross; War Widow; Air Force at Radar Hill
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-654 Interviewee: J.T. McCraken; Moore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 24, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:12:25
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Adair, Orgeon; 90th Infantry Division; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-655 Interviewee: Irene W. Laune; Phoenix, Arizona Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 5, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:17:53
Subjects: Civilian in England; Gaumont British Film Company; Propaganda Films; Blitz
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-656 Interviewee: L.C. Bearer; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 29, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: #1--1:59:33 #2--1:04:36
Subjects: ROTC; Air Corps; Air Materiel Command; Warren Field, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-657 Interviewee: Lonnie Cook; Morris, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 25, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:17:58
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Arizona; 3rd Division; Pearl Harbor; USS Aylwin, DD-355; Coral Sea; Midway; Guam; Tinnian; Saipan, USS Hall, DD-583; Iwo Jima; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-658 Interviewee: Albert Lumm; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:30:06
Subjects: Shipyard Worker in Alameda, California; Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; SS William D. Boyce; Guam; Philippines; USS Haley
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-659 Interviewee: David Anthony Glover; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 6, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:17:59
Subjects: England; Home Guard; Work Deferment – Surveyor; Battle of Britain; Blitz
Additional Material: Copies of 2 Photographs from WWII; Copies of Current and WWII- Era Portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-660 Interviewee: William Burden; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 22, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:56:57
Subjects: ROTC; Air Corps; Basic Training – Barksdale Field, Louisiana; Louisiana Maneuvers; North Africa; Kasserine Pass; 544th Air Service Group; Italy; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-661 Interviewee: Merle Hays; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 24, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:00:06
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Typhoon; Tulagi Island; Guadalcanal; Bougainville; Underwater Demolition; New Guinea; Saipan; Guam; Iwo Jima; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-662 Interviewee: Thomas E. Wilkins; McCloud, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 2, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:15:15
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Swift, Texas; 146th Combat Engineers; D-Day; Omaha Beach; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of 4 Photographs from WWII; Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-663 Interviewee: Barney Vignovich; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 12, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:40:32
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Miami Beach, Florida; McDill Field, Florida; B- 17; Italy; 2nd Bomb Group, 429th Bomb Squadron; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-664 Interviewee: George McAnelly; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 13, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:33:41
Subjects:
EL-VOH-WWII-665 Interviewee: Riley Montgomery; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 7, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:24
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; 375th Squadron, 308th Bomb Group; India; China
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-666 Interviewee: Kenneth L. Goodman; Orue, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 6, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:57:05
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Hawaii; Kahaluu Naval Air Station; CACSU 32
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-667 Interviewee: Grant McKnight; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 20, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:37:05
Subjects: Naval Air Corps; Training; Banana River Naval Air Station; Trinidad; Caribbean; Eniwetok
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-668 Interviewee: Carl Deuel; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: Octoboer 31, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:31:30
Subjects: Navy; V-12 Program; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Corpsman
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-669 Interviewee: Clyde Endsley; Bartlesvillee, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 1, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:34:26
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Mechanic; 42nd Troop Carrier Squadron; Elmendorf Field, Alaska; Lawson Field, George; 119th Base Unit
Additional Material: Copies of 4 Photographs from WWII; Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-670 Interviewee: Gene Dick; Yorba Linda, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 5, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:03:29
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Corpsman; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; Receiving Station; Hawaii; USS Seahawk
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-671 Interviewee: Don Woodrel; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 11, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:46:01
Subjects:
EL-VOH-WWII-672 Interviewee: Ray Martin; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 4, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:39
Subjects: CCC; Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; 104th Infantry Regiment; Hawaii; 1398th Engineer Battalion; Saipan; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-673 Interviewee: Jack Gay; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 16, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:13
Subjects: Air Corps; Flight Training; 100th Bomb Group; B-17; Thorpe Abbot; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait; Copies of 2 WWII-Era Photographs; Computer Print-Out of Information on the 351st Squadron, With Photo and Each Member Identified and Flight Record; Two Different Copies of Flight Record
EL-VOH-WWII-674 Interviewee: Dick Bresson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 5, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:02:51
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Benning, Georgia; 245th Infantry Regiment, 87th Division; 843rd Signal Company; Guam; Radio
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-675 Interviewee: George Rhodes; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 29, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:40:25
Subjects: 160th Field Artillery, Oklahoma National Guard; Army; Sicily; Italy; France; Observer; Korean War
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript; Handwritten Reminiscences on the War
EL-VOH-WWII-676 Interviewee: Sybil Alene Jones; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 17, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:28:10
Subjects: American Home Front; Worked at Phillips Petroleum
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-677 Interviewee: Roy Ahart; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 17, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:29:27
Subjects: Seabees; 6th Seabee Battalion; USS Hunter Liggett; Guadalcanal; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-678 Interviewee: Roland Pryor; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 23, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:11:49
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Wolters, Texas; Air Corps; 78th Infantry Division; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-679 Interviewee: Charles W. Grogan; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 16, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:45
Subjects: Civilian Military Training Camp; Navy; Boot Camp – Camp Perry, Virginia; 77th Seabees; Guadalcanal; Vela Lavella; Officer’s Training
Additional Material: Copy of Discharge Form; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-680 Interviewee: Jack Henry Presnell; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 6, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:03:18
Subjects: Work Deferment at Phillips Petroleum
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-681 Interviewee: Tom Brennen; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 4, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:30:58
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Sampson, New York; USS Kennebec; Convoy Duty; Captured German Submarine
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript; Copy of Internet Article Recalling Wartime Experiences
EL-VOH-WWII-682 Interviewee: John J. Blevins; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 7, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:29:55
Subjects: Superior Welding in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Wessen, DE-184; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-683 Interviewee: Dave Russell; Albany, Oregon Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 4, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:19:48
Subjects: CCC; Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Mayhan; Leyte Gulf; USS Buck
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-684 Interviewee: Lloyd Freeman; Noramn, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 14, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:05:56
Subjects:
EL-VOH-WWII-685 Interviewee: Leonard Blair; Santa Barbara, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 7, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:32:20
Subjects: Camp Campbell, Kentucky; OCS; Air Corps; 1760th Aviation Ordnance Squadron; India; China; 14th Air Force; Photographer
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-686 Interviewee: Donald P. Shaub; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 2, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:15:15
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Jefferson Barracks; ASTP; 66th Infantry Division; SS Leopoldville; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-687 Interviewee: Don Brurud; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 7, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:45:00
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Jacksonville, Florida; Training; PBM 20-A; Florida; Puerto Rico
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-688 Interviewee: William R. “Bill” Blakemore; Bartlesvillee, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 5, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:40:26
Subjects: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft; Air Corps; Training; 95th Bomb Group; England; Holland
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-689 Interviewee: Vernor Courtney; Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 21, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:29:49
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 772nd Tank Destroyer Battalion; Chaplain’s Assistant; Utah Beach; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-690 Interviewee: George W. Hanshew; Bartlesvillee, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 23, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:42:19
Subjects: Work Deferment at Armor Meat Packing Company, Oklahoma City
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-691 Interviewee: Ed Doshier; Crane, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 29, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:32
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 782nd Tank Battalion; Tennessee Maneuvers; France; Belgium; Germany; Korean War; Fort Hood, Texas
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-692 Interviewee: Ralph Wilson; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 29, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:19:02
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 782nd Tank Battalion; France
EL-VOH-WWII-693 Interviewee: Warren Ledbetter; Midwest City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 14, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: #1-- 1:58:44 #2--1:10:07
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Davis, Panama Canal Zone; 2nd Tank Company; Philippines; 31st Infantry; Bataan; Bilibud Prison; Cabanatuan; POW
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-694 Interviewee: Robert Hamil; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 11, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:40:49
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Crowder, Missouri; 17th Signal Battalion; Tennessee Maneuvers; Oregon Maneuvers; Omaha Beach; France; Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Germany
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-695 Interviewee: Jay Jernigan; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 4, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:47
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Wright; Pearl Harbor; Ford Island; USS Hulbert; USS Petroff Bay; Leyte Gulf
Additional Material: Small WWII-Era Photograph; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-696 Interviewee: John Crittenden;Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 19, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:09:49
Subjects: CCC; Basic Training – Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; 43rd Engineers; New Guinea
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-697 Interviewee: Richard A. Schlink; Santa Barbara, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 4, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:17
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Corpsman; USS Oklahoma; Pearl Harbor; USS Ellyson; D-Day; Okinawa; Korean War; Developed Air Evacuation System
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-698 Interviewee: Bob Fife; Toronto, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 24, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:59:50
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – St. Petersburg, Florida; Training; Thorpe Abbot; 100th Bomb Group; POW; Stalag IV; Black March
Contains Brief Interview with Herma Fife
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-699 Interviewee: Art Levine; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 18, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:20:22
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Blanding, Florida; 501st Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne Division; D-Day; Omaha Beach; France; Germany; Market Garden; Battle of the Bulge; Belgium
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-700 Interviewee: William C. Coker; Pine Bluff, Arkansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 29, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:08:09
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 782nd Tank Battalion; Tennessee Maneuvers; Training; France; Germany
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-701 Interviewee: Eugene Meeker; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 31, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:06:17
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; Pearl Harbor; Kaneohe Naval Air Station; New Caledonia; Guadalcanal
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-702 Interviewee: Frank Winford; Wagoner, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 19, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:46:30
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp Campbell, Kentucky; 782nd Tank Battalion; Tennessee Maneuvers; France; Germany; Czechoslovakia
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-703 Interviewee: Robert B. Allen; Muncie, Indiana Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 29, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:52:21
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Carson, Colorado; 607th Field Artillery; 782nd Tank Battalion; France; Belgium; Germany
Additional Material: WWII-Era Photograph; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-704 Interviewee: Sheridan Marquardt; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 25, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:06:46
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Corpsman; USS Colbert; Okinawa; Korean War; 1st Marine Division
Additional Material: Internet Print-Out of Naval Record, with Portrait from 1967; Copies of WWII-Era Photograph; Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-705 Interviewee: Charles Sanders; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 7, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:05:31
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Tuskegee Air Base; 332nd Fighter Squadron; Flight Training
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-706 Interviewee: Violet W. England; Bartlesvillee, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 8, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:04:23
Subjects: Civilian in England; Bombing; War Bride
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Copy of Wedding Picture
EL-VOH-WWII-707 Interviewee: Gene Greb; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 31, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:49
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS San Francisco; Guadalcanal; Truk Island; Iwo Jima; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copy of Current portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-708 Interviewee: Frank W. Marshall; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 31, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:35:36
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Seattle; USS Lyon; North Africa; Sicily; Italy; France
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-709 Interviewee: James Campbell Stewart; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 10, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:36:04
Subjects: Royal Canadian Navy; Scotland; HMCS Uganda; Iwo Jima; Okinawa
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Picture of Photo Album – 2 Complete, 4 Incomplete Photographs; Copy of Interviewee’s Curriculum Vitae
EL-VOH-WWII-710 Interviewee: Delmer Reeves; South Coffeyville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 7, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:45:32
Subjects: Basic Training – Camp Roberts, California; 40th Division; Johnson Island; Guadalcanal; Leyte Gulf; Manila
Additional Material: Copies of 21 Photographs from WWII; Copies of 2 New Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-711 Interviewee: Esther A. Stewart; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 10, 2008 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:23:37
Subjects: Sewed Uniforms; Canadian Navy; Galt, Ontario; Halifax; Nova Scotia
Additional Material: Typed Account of Service History; Copies of Current and WWII- Era Photographs
EL-VOH-WWII-712 Interviewee: Virgil Irwin;, Aline, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 12, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:40:06
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 171st Field Artillery, 45th Division; North Africa; Sicily; Italy; France; Germany; Dachau
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WW-II Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-713 Interviewee: Harry Edwin Hughes; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 3, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT:
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Buckley Field, Colorado; Flight Training; Amarillo Army Air Field
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-714 Interviewee: Peggy Henshall;, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:47:47
Subjects: American Home Front; Spartan Aircraft, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-715 Interviewee: Ray Rohlfing; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 3, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:13:28
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training – Shepherd Field, Texas; Radio; Galena, Alaska; Weather Maps
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits; Typed Reminiscences of War
EL-VOH-WWII-716 Interviewee: Flavius Cornelius O’Gara, Jr.; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 2, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:04:36
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – San Diego, California; USS Gantner; Korean War
VD reference copy
Additional Material: Copies of Current and WWII-Era Portraits on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-717 Interviewee: Charles K. Long; Parsons, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 19, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 54:22
Subjects: Boeing; Navy; Boot Camp – Farragut, Idaho; USS General Callan AP 139; Ship Fitter New Guinea; Guam; Okinawa; Subic Bay; Typhoon
EL-VOH-WWII-718 Interviewee: Orlin E. Maritt; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 14, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:19
Subjects: Air Force; Basic Training- Shepherd Field in Wichita Falls, TX; Las Vegas; Gunner; B-17; Ireland; 94th Bomb Group; Barry St. Edmonds; 89th Infantry Division; Le Havre, France; Purple Heart
Additional Material: Copy of B-17 portrait on Transcript
EL-VOH-WWII-719 Interviewee: Dorothy Greer ; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 13, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 56:53
Subjects: CCC; WPA; National Youth Association (NYA); Rationing; Scrap Metal Drive; Sapulpa, OK
EL-VOH-WWII-720 Interviewee: Osmero (Ozzie) Lew Bartelli; Parsons, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 19, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:29:39
Subjects: Italian; Army; Camp Roberts, California – Basic Training; USS Leonard Wood; Casablanca; 3rd Infantry Division; Sicily; Patton; Truscott; Anzio; Battle of the Bulge; Bastogne; Dachau; 52-20; GI Bill
Additional Material: WWII-era Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-721 Interviewee: O.T. Grider; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 3, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:12:07
Subjects: National Guard 45th Division, Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion 179th Infantry; Army Engineers; Headquarters 632nd Engineer Light Equipment Company; Fort Sill; Camp Chaffee, Arkansas- Basic Training; Camp Butler, NC; Tennessee Maneuvers; D-7 Caterpillar; USS General Simmons, Utah Beach; 107th Evac Hospital; 3217th Engineer Fire Fighting Company; Purple Heart
Additional Material: Typed History and Roster of the 632nd Engineers Light Equipment Company; Copy of Discharge Papers and Certificate
EL-VOH-WWII-722 Interviewee: Delbert Coulter ; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 10, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:54:58
Subjects: Air Corps; Basic Training- Shepherd Field; Aircraft Mechanic School; Gunnery School, Tyndall Field, Florida; Engineer Gunner; B-24; Dakar, Africa; 448th Bomb Group; Belgium; Stalag Luft VI; Stalag Luft IV; Prisoner of War
Additional Material: Copies of WWII-era portraits; Copy of Stalag Luft IV Log Book
EL-VOH-WWII-723 Interviewee: Vance E. Rule ; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 16, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:10:44
Subjects: CCC; WPA; Air Corps; Basic Training – Keesler Field; San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center; Moore Field, Mission, Texas; GI Bill
Additional Material: WWII-era portraits
EL-VOH-WWII-724 Interviewee: Walter Tupper; Shelton, Washington Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 4, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:24:05
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp - San Diego; Signalman; USS Talbot (DE-114, APD-7); Aleutians; Dutch Harbor; Guadalcanal; USS Salute; General MacArthur; Korean War; USS General William Mitchell; French Indochina
EL-VOH-WWII-725 Interviewee: Pat Grant; Cortez, Colorado Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 24, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:22:58
Subjects: Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC); Fort Des Moines, Iowa – Basic Training; WAC Detachment; Camp Hahn, California; Fort Benning, Georgia; Los Alamos, New Mexico; Nuremberg Trials; USS General Gaffey; 3rd Army Headquarters, Fort McPherson, Georgia; Fort McClellan, Alabama
EL-VOH-WWII-726 Interviewee: Morris Forsythe; Altoona, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 30, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:27:28
Subjects: Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas – Basic Training; 2nd Cavalry; Louisiana Maneuvers; Parker Dam; A Company 66th Battalion, 12th Armored Division; Tennessee Maneuvers; HMS Empress of Australia; Singling, France; Herrlisheim; USS Wisteria
EL-VOH-WWII-727 Interviewee: James Green; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 28, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:31:28
Subjects: Scrap Metal Drives; Army; Fort Sill – Basic Training; Medical Corps; Camp Barkley, TX; 174th Field Hospital; Queen Mary; Omaha Beach; Le Huye De Puits; Battle of the Bulge; Nordhausen; V-2 Rockets; Gera, Germany; USS John Erickson
EL-VOH-WWII-728 Interviewee: Norma Maxine Panther; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 16, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 21:31
Subjects: Beech Aircraft; Riveter
Additional Material:
Interviewee: Philip Panther; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 16, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 27:23
Subjects: Beech Aircraft; Cessna Aircraft; Phillips (Company) in Bartlesville, OK
EL-VOH-WWII-729 Interviewee: Melvin Adler; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 4, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:02
Subjects: Federal Bureau of Investigation; Air Corps; Camp Robinson, Arkansas- Basic Training; Buzz Bomb; Dachau; 32nd Statistical Control Unit; USS Elgin Victory
EL-VOH-WWII-730 Interviewee: Maxine L. Manning; Chickasha, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 10, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:00:20
Subjects: Rationing; Scrap Metal Drives; Shoes; American Home Front
EL-VOH-WWII-731 Interviewee: John Palmire; Kirby, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 4, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 42:39
Subjects: Navy; Seabees; Great Lakes – Boot Camp; Marines; USS Michigan Bay (CVE- 59); Cape Town, South Africa; Tokyo Rose
EL-VOH-WWII-732 Interviewee: Bill Thomas; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 51:29
Subjects: Navy; Great Lakes – Boot Camp; USS FDR; Rio de Janeiro
EL-VOH-WWII-733 Interviewee: Les Ebert, Sr.; Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 8, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:56:12
Subjects: NYA; Todd Houston Shipyards; Navy; Seabees; Okinawa; 4th Special CB Battalion; Stevedore Battalion; Ladd Air Force Base
EL-VOH-WWII-734 Interviewee: Wanda Goode; Sedan, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 21, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 21:23
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Rationing; Beechcraft; AT-10; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-735 Interviewee: Mary Louise Batman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 4, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 34:01
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Rationing; Navy-Yeoman; Hunter College, New York City- Boot Camp; Oklahoma A&M- Stillwater, Oklahoma; Corpus Christie, Texas; V-E Day; V-J Day
Additional Material: World War II Era Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-736 Interviewee: Frank Arthur Batman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 4, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 59:25
Subjects: Great Depression; CCC; WPA; December 7, 1941; Navy; Treasure Island, California- Boot Camp; Oklahoma A&M- Stillwater, Oklahoma; Corpus Christie; Unit VS-57; Dutch Merchant Ship; New Caledonia; Espiritu Santo; PV-Ventura Bomber; V-J Day
Additional Material: World War II Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-737 Interviewee: C.R. Willits; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 10, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:15
Subjects: Adolf Hitler; National Guard- 120th Quartermaster, Company E; Louisiana Maneuvers- Livingston, Louisiana; December 7, 1941; Fort Sill- Lawton, Oklahoma; Camp Barkley- Abilene, Texas; Fort Devens- Massachusetts; Pine Camp- New York; USS A.K. Paola; Oran, North Africa; Italy; Anzio; 4843rd Service Unit; OG&E; Korean War
EL-VOH-WWII-738 Interviewee: Charles Orleans; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:53
Subjects: Great Depression; CCC; December 7, 1941; Navy; Farragut, Idaho- Boot Camp; USS Salute- mine sweeper; Marshall Islands- Kwajalein; V-E Day; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-739 Interviewee: Harley Newland; Wichita, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 4, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:16:14
Subjects: December 7, 1941; Rationing; Air Corps; Amarillo, Texas- Basic Training; Kingman, Arizona- gunnery school; Lincoln, Nebraska; B-17s; Horham, England; 335th Bomb Squadron; Bombing Missions; V-E Day; Korean War
EL-VOH-WWII-740 Interviewee: John Kilman; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 30, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 38:48
Subjects: Great Depression; Adolf Hitler; December 7, 1941; Rationing; Army; Camp Campbell, Tennessee- Basic Training; Battalion Headquarters S-3; M-5 Tank; Tennessee Maneuvers; Fort Knox; Le Havre, France; St. Valery, France- train wreck; Germany; V-E Day
EL-VOH-WWII-741 Interviewee: James Gailey; Muskogee, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 3, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:11:06
Subjects: Great Depression; Navy; Great Lakes, Illinois- Boot Camp; USS Henderson; Hawaii; USS Helena- Number 3 Turret; December 7, 1941; Signalman Striker; Guadalcanal; Noumea, New Caledonia; USS Chase; Okinawa; Guam; Atomic Bomb; Korean War
EL-VOH-WWII-742 Interviewee: Virgil Leroy Thurman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 11, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:04:26
Subjects: December 7, 1941; Scrap Metal Drives; War Stamps; V-J Day; Navy; Great Lakes, Illinois- Boot Camp; USS Waller- fireman; Korean War; Wonsan Harbor, North Korea; Asbestos
Additional Material: Korean War Era Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-743 Interviewee: Marvin Markus; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 4, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:37:44
Subjects: Great Depression; Germany; December 7, 1941; Scrap Metal Drives; Rationing; Air Corps; Shepherd Fields, Texas- Basic Training; St. Johns University- flight training; Las Vegas, Nevada; Norden Bombsight- B-17 Bombers; Ipswich, England; Bombing Missions- Germany; V-E Day
EL-VOH-WWII-744 Interviewee: Richard Artley; Lewiston, Idaho Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 21, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:26
Subjects: Navy; San Diego, California- Boot Camp; Pearl Harbor; USS Oklahoma; December 7, 1941- capsizing of USS Oklahoma; SC-630- Sub Chaser; Camp Hatteras, New York; North Africa; Connor College- Warner, Oklahoma; Iowa Jima; Okinawa; Osaka, Japan; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-745 Interviewee: Bob Powell; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 18, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:58:52
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Air Corps; Kelly Field, Texas- Basic Training; 3rd Communications Squadron; Scott Field, Illinois- radio school; Amarillo, Texas- glider training; CG4A; Accra- Takoradi, Ghana; Tripoli; England; Market Garden- Holland; V-E Day; Natal, Brazil; Berlin Airlift
EL-VOH-WWII-746 Interviewee: John R. Wright; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 31, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 53:36
Subjects: Great Depression; CCC- Ottumwa, Iowa; December 7, 1941; Air Corps; St. Cloud, Minnesota- Basic Training; Queen Mary; Scotland- Hanley Stoke-on-Trent; A-26- bomber; Bombing Missions; Flak- 88s; V-J Day; Korean War
EL-VOH-WWII-747 Interviewee: James Housman; Grove, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 10, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:18:08
Subjects: Great Depression; Germany- Adolf Hitler; December 7, 1941; Fort Jackson, South Carolina- Basic Training; Tennessee Maneuvers; 9th Infantry Division; 60mm Mortar; D-Day- Utah Beach; St. Lo; Siegfried Line; Remagen Bridge; Scheuen Hutte, Germany; Berlin; Austria- V-E Day
Additional Material: World War II era portrait; Letter from Housman’s daughter (Robyn Carathers)
EL-VOH-WWII-748 Interviewee: Roy Fairlie; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 21, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 26:32
Subjects: Great Depression; McNally’s Pittsburg Manufacturing Co.- Pittsburg, Kansas; December 7, 1941; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Douglas Aircraft- machinist; Bond Drives; Seismograph Service Co.; Acme Machine Shop
EL-VOH-WWII-749 Interviewee: Rose Simmons; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 21, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 58:03
Subjects: World War I- father; Sioux Indians; Dust Storms; Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Bremerton, Washington- Navy Ship Yards; Steel Presses; Black Outs; Treatment of women in the ship yards; Rationing; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-750 Interviewee: R. J. George; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 2, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:18:47
Subjects: Germany; December 7, 1941; Marine Corps; San Diego, California- Boot Camp; 4th Marine Division; Camp Pendleton, California; Pearl Harbor; Saipan; Regimental Headquarters- message center; Iwo Jima; Atomic Bomb; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-751 Interviewee: Edward L. McKinnis; Tonkawa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 24, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 43:17
Subjects: Great Depression; Adolf Hitler; December 7, 1941; Navy; San Diego, California- Boot Camp; Dutch Harbor, Alaska; Boatswain’s Locker; USS Taussig- DD746; Torpedoman; Carolines Islands; Pickett Duty; Kamikazes; Atomic Bomb; Torpedoes; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-752 Interviewee: Bill Prichard; Prue, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 6, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 33:07
Subjects: Katy MK&T Railroad; Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Rationing; Navy; San Diego, California- Boot Camp; USS Hoggatt Bay- CVE 75; Ship Fitters Shop; Hawaii; Okinawa; Aleutian Islands, Alaska; V-J Day; Tokyo Harbor
EL-VOH-WWII-753 Interviewee: Maurice F. Hamilton; Powhuska, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 13, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:04:29
Subjects: Osage Indians; Great Depression; Oklahoma Military School; December 7, 1941; Army; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri- Basic Training; Signal Corps Platoon- 75th Infantry Division; Camp Crowder, Neosho, Missouri; Hawaii; Higgins Boat; Okinawa; V-J Day; Seoul, Korea
EL-VOH-WWII-754 Interviewee: Monte W. Kemp; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 15, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 55:00
Subjects: Great Depression; Oklahoma A&M- Stillwater; December 7, 1941; Army; Camp White, Oregon- Basic Training; Artillery- 105 Howitzer- observer; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; USS George Washington; Bombay, India; Calcutta; 35th Replacement Battalion; Karachi, India- Khyber Pass; V-J Day
Additional Material: World War II era Portrait and Current Portrait
EL-VOH-WWII-755 Interviewee: Warren Radefeld; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 16, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:15:01
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Navy; Farragut, Idaho- Boot Camp; Hospital Corps School; Seattle Naval Hospital; Pearl Harbor Hospital; USS Minneapolis; Admiral Kincade; Kamikazes; Guam; China; V-J Day
Additional Material: Pages from Sailor’s Personal Record.
EL-VOH-WWII-756 Interviewee: Ichie Dozier; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 17, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 53:42
Subjects: Manchuria- Harbin County; Movies; Chinese, Japanese, and Russian Communists; Yengbow Harbor; Kyoto, Japan- GI Hospital; Korean War- Sasebo Naval Base Hospital; Tokyo- Marriage to American; Okayama- Hometown
EL-VOH-WWII-757 Interviewee: Willard C. Lyons; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 8, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:01:54
Subjects: Fort Myers, Florida; Germany- Hitler; December 7, 1941; Navy; Norfolk, Virginia- Boot Camp; Norfolk Naval Air Station- Aircraft Mechanic School; USS Hornet- Fighting Squadron 8; Panama Canal; Doolittle Raid; Battle of Midway; Battle of Santa Cruz- Hornet Sunk; New Caledonia- Survivors Camp; USS Altamaha; Korean War
EL-VOH-WWII-758 Interviewee: James J. Hughes; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 4, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 59:01
Subjects: Great Depression; Germany- Hitler; December 7, 1941; Navy; Chicago- Northwest University’s Downtown Medical Camp; San Francisco, California- minesweeper; USS Salute- AM-294; Leyte Gulf; Minesweeping; Philippines; Borneo- Salute Sunk; Atomic Bomb; Civil Readjustment Group- Chicago
EL-VOH-WWII-759 Interviewee: John Wilkes Booth; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 23, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:36:57
Subjects: Born in Red Oak, Oklahoma; left school at 16 to join the Navy; boot camp in San Diego; gunnery school in San Francisco; Okinawa; discharged March 1946; rejoined the Navy and stayed in until 1950
EL-VOH-WWII-760 Interviewee: James Todd; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 3, 2013 Format: 8mm with two DVD reference copies TRT: 1:17:14
Subjects: Born in Independence, Kansas; moved to Gallup, New Mexico in 7th grade; graduated high school in 1944 from Coffeyville, Kansas; drafted in 1944; basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas; KP duty; infantry training; shipped overseas after start of Battle of the Bulge; Le Havre; 75th Infantry Division; Holland; Rhineland; German civilians; Ruhr Pocket; division moved back to France at end of war; discharged June 1946; studied civil engineering at Oklahoma A&M; Phillips Petroleum
Additional Material: Photocopies of discharge papers
EL-VOH-WWII-761 Interviewee: Earl Sass; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 13, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 55:10
Subjects: Great Depression; Auto Lite; December 7, 1941; Scrap Metal Drives; Army Air Corps; Camp Robinson, Arkansas- Basic Training; Medics; Camp Barkley, Texas; 541st Medical Collecting Company- Cadre; Louisiana Maneuvers; Fort Carson, Colorado; Battalion Clear- Registrar’s Field Hospital; Liberty Ship; Okinawa; Seoul, Korea
EL-VOH-WWII-762 Interviewee: Robert Dickson; Belleview, Arkansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 7, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:21:05
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Scrap Metal Drives; Merchant Marines; Army; Camp Roberts, California- Basic Training; 155mm gun; Fort Meade, Marland; Liberty Ship; 82nd Airborne- driver; Glider Training; D-Day- Omaha Beach, St. Mary Eglise; A Battery, 319th Gliders Battalion; Holland; Battle of the Bulge- Werbomont, Belgium; Ardennes- Belgium; Surrender of Germany; Concentration Camp- Wobbelin; Berlin
EL-VOH-WWII-763 Interviewee: Martha Jewell Reeve; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 10, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 21:43
Subjects: Great Depression; Rise of Hitler; December 7, 1941; Rationing; Blackouts; Kaiser Shipyard- welder; Merchant Marine Cargo Ships
EL-VOH-WWII-764 Interviewee: Robert B. Meripol; Dallas, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 53:46
Subjects: Great Depression; German invasion of Poland; Homenem- Jewish Youth Group; Air Corps; Santa Anna, California- Basic Training; Kirkland Base- Bombardier School; Norden Bomb Site; Walla Walla, Washington- Commissioned; B-24- Dean Dow Dottie; China- Bombing Runs and Sites; Flying the Hump; 308th Bomb Group, 373rd Bomb Squadron- Flying Tiger; Chinese People; Japanese Surrender
Additional Material: World War II era portrait in uniform, another portrait of him in his flight suit, and four photographs of him and his B-24 crew by their airplane.
EL-VOH-WWII-765 Interviewee: Ellen Cook; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 3, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:35:40
Subjects: Born in Oslo, Norway; father was in publishing; left Norway at age 17 to attend Baylor University in Texas; Norway during Nazi occupation; grandfather involved in making heavy water
EL-VOH-WWII-766 Interviewee: Thomas Bennett Hammett Sr.; Spartanburg, South Carolina Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 23, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:06:45
Subjects: Rise of Hitler; Great Depression; Navy; Great Lakes Training Center, Illinois- Boot Camp; Oakland Naval Training Center, California; USS Phoenix- Light Cruiser; Milne Bay, New Guinea; PT Boat- Motor Machinist Mate; Night Patrol; Manila, Philippines
EL-VOH-WWII-767 Interviewee: Kenneth Isaacs; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 14, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:22:00
Subjects: Great Depression; Rise of Hitler; December 7, 1941; Kaiser Shipyards- welder; Army; Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington- Basic Training; Bivouac; Seattle Docks; 251st Port Battalion- Unloading of Ships; S.S. King S. Woolsey- Norfolk, Virginia; Oran, North Africa; S.S. Rajula- Bombay, India; Calcutta, India- Crane Operator; Indian Caste System; V-J Day; Indian Dock Workers; Korean War- Training Command, Fort Patrick Henry
EL-VOH-WWII-768 Interviewee: Don J. Lockwood; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 21, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 53:08
Subjects: December 7, 1941; Scrap Metal Drives; Rationing; V-J Day; National Guard- 179th Infantry, Regimental Headquarters; For Sill, Oklahoma; Korean War; Camp Polk, Louisiana- Training; USS Marine Lynx; Hokkaido, Japan; Counter Fire Platoon; Camp Drake, Tokyo; 279th Infantry- S-2 Sergeant, Intelligence; Cuban Missile Crisis
EL-VOH-WWII-769 Interviewee: James Lynn Youtsey; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 14, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 35:40
Subjects: December 7, 1941; Army; Camp Wolters, Texas- Basic Training; Hawaii- Pearl Harbor; Guadalcanal; Malaria- Philippines Hospital; End of War
EL-VOH-WWII-770 Interviewee: R.P. Marshall; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 19, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:20:40
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Air Corps; Shepherd Field; Medical and Psychological Unit #9; Rationing; V-J Day
[R.P. Marshall’s wife, Ann Marshall, is interviewed briefly starting at 1:09:00.]
EL-VOH-WWII-771 Interviewee: Jack Morris: Carey, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 28, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 58:32
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; scrap metal collections; Air Corps; Basic Training; Gunnery School; Bakersfield; Hawaii; New Guinea; Kyushu; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-772 Interviewee: Art Imthurm; Lewiston, Idaho Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 21, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:46:07
Subjects: German invasion of Poland; rationing; December 7, 1941; scrap metal drives; Japanese balloon bombing of Oregon; Navy; Boot Camp: Gulfport; Basic Engineering school; USS Natoma Bay; USS Bon Homme Richard; Pearl Harbor; Guam; Saipan; Tinian; Philippines; Subic; Seabees; V-J Day; Hawaii; Oil King’s Gang; return to Pearl Harbor; stationing in Japan; Nagasaki; Korean War tour
EL-VOH-WWII-773 Interviewee: Harold Schmid; Edmond, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 3, 2012 Format: 8mm and DVD reference copy TRT: 1:13:43
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Navy; Boot Camp; Hayward; USS Nassau Bay CVE-16; Seaman’s Manual; Seaman First Class; Coxswain; Attu; Alaska; Midway; Manila; Iwo Jima; Samoa; Hell Divers; Kamikazes; Destroyer Escorts; Okinawa; V-J Day; San Francisco; Crossing the Equator; Neptune; International Date Line; Golden Gate Bridge; GI Bill; Ike
Additional Material: Included with the transcript is a copy of Harold Schmid’s Notice of Separation from U.S. Naval Service paperwork; a flyer for the Ancient Order of the Deep, indicating Harold Schmid as a Trusty Shellback; memo from the U.S.S. Nassau Captain Turner to all ‘polywogs’ establishing rules of conduct onboard the vessel.
EL-VOH-WWII-774 Interviewee: Glen Lewis; Richardson, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 29, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 36:51
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; draft; Air Corps; Amarillo; Basic Training; Mechanic School; Grand Island; USS Sea Marlin; Tinian; 313rd Wing, 6th Bomb Group, 14th Bomb Squadron; crew chief; B-29; A-26; B-26; Colonel Tibbets; Enola Gay; Seabees; Saipan; Air Force; 8th Air Force; Berlin Airlift; Korea; England; Mendenhall; Royal Air Force; National Guard
EL-VOH-WWII-775 Interviewee: Wilford Teel; Nowata, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 25, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 50:36
Subjects: Great Depression; CCC; Movietone; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rationing; Army Air Corps; Basic Training; Keesler Field; Primary Flight Training; BT-13; AT-6; V-J Day; Paris, France; Berlin Airlift; England; Russians; C-47; Korea; Gooney Bird; Tachikawa, Japan; Hunter Air Force Base; Strategic Air Command (SAC); Cold War; Cuban Missile Crisis; Vietnam: Communists; South Vietnam; Eleanor Roosevelt
EL-VOH-WWII-776 Interviewee: Leroy Amos; Pomona, California Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 27, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:02:19
Subjects: dust storms; Dust Bowl; Okies; Great Depression; WPA; CCC; Lockheed Aircraft; P-38; Hudson Bomber; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; 4F; blackouts; Basic Training; Camp Roberts; Artillery; Camp Van Dorn; M-1; Aquitania; Glasgow; Scotland; France; Cherbourg; Army; North Africa; Rommel; A Company; 1st Battalion; 157th Regiment; 45 Division; 7th Army; 3rd Army; Sicily; Italy; Anzio; Salerno; Vosges Mountains; Maginot Line; Battle of the Bulge; Rhine; Aschaffenburg; Hitler Youth; Repertsweiller; autobahns; Dachau; SS; prison camp; Munich; Camp Lucky Strike; Liberty ship; USS Sea Owl; Camp Bowie
EL-VOH-WWII-777 Interviewee: Albert Birmingham; Afton, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 22, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 59:54
Subjects: Great Depression; CCC; WPA; 1939 Invasion of Poland; Guam; December 7, 1941; scrap metal drives; rationing; Alabama Dry Docks; Philippines; Navy; Boot Camp: Camp Perry; WAVES; WACS; Seabees; carbine; Camp Parks; 24th Battalion; Guadalcanal; Camouflage School; Pearl Harbor; Subic Bay; Luzon; Bataan River; Construction Battalion; Quonset; V-J day; Golden Gate Bridge; OGU (Outgoing Unit); USO; Bob Hope
EL-VOH-WWII-778 Interviewee: Lester Conaway; Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 12, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 27:03
Subjects: dust storms; 1939 Invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; scrap metal drives; rationing; B card; Navy; Boot Camp; Pearl Harbor; PC 801; Patrol Craft 801; Boot Leave; USS Arizona; USS Missouri; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-779 Interviewee: Vern Cron; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 26, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:16:23
Subjects: Movietone; rise of Hitler; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; rationing; scrap metal drives; Navy; Boot Camp; Great Lakes; Camp Shoemaker; USO; USS Lurline; USS President Monroe; Honolulu; Treasure Island; Okinawa; USS Franklin; Command of Naval Airbases; Awase Air Strip
EL-VOH-WWII-780 Interviewee: Frank Foster; Elk City, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 5, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:09:55
Subjects: Great Depression; 1A; Navy; Boot Camp; Sofly Field; Bronson Field; SNJs, Army AT-6; OS2U, Seaplane; ABATU; Advanced Training Base; Port Hueneme; Smart Field; Camp Elliot; Operation Pinwheel; Norway; Portsmouth; London; England; USS Bougainville CVE-100; SB2-Z; F6F; V-J Day; USS Tarawa; USS Valley Forge; Japan; Philippines; Sydney; Australia; Hong Kong; Saudi Arabia; Persian Gulf; Gibraltar; Panama; Panama Canal; F9F2 jets; Inchon; Korea; Vietnam; Air Group 11; French Vietnam; Moffet Field; USS Hancock; Roosevelt; Hoover; VF-126; Syria; Police action; Chosin Reservoir; Yalu River
EL-VOH-WWII-781 Interviewee: Olive Haywood; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 1st, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:45:11
Subjects: Flappers; Johnston Bottoms; rationing; ration stamps; V-J Day; Ladies Aid; Armistice Day; 1918; flu epidemic
EL-VOH-WWII-782 Interviewee: Bruce Price; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 13, 2011 Format: 8m with DVD reference copy TRT: 55:08
Subjects: World War One; YMCA; Great Depression; Underground Railroad; women’s suffrage; Ernest Whims Music School; Brooklyn; New York; December 7, 1941; Day of Infamy; Pearl Harbor; Movietone; Lend-Lease Program; Army; Basic Training; Fort Grant; medical basic; non-combat role; Army Medical Corps; Fitzsimmons General Hospital; Kellogg Sanatorium; Guadalcanal; Army Specialized Training Program; Boot Camp; Air Corps; psychological tests; Battle of the Bulge; Philippines; Keesler Field
EL-VOH-WWII-783 Interviewee: Wilford Russell; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 19, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 28:31
Subjects: CCC, Broken Arrow; Osage Hills; CCC Camp; Roosevelt; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rationing; Parachute troops; Nowata Pipe; Nowata Machine Shop; bonds; Senior Citizens Nutrition Project
EL-VOH-WWII-784 Interviewee: Ross Waltzer; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 17, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 45:45
Subjects: Great Depression; bootlegger; Army; ASTP program; December 7, 1941; scrap metal drives; dental school; draft; Randolph Air Force Base; Boca Raton; Sherman; Texas; Army Air Corps; Air Force; V-J Day; Mexico; Mexico City Additional Material:
EL-VOH-WWII-785 Interviewee: James Maritt; Coffeyville, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 23, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:44:33
Subjects: Great Depression; Movietone; Japanese Invasion of China; Rise of Hitler in Germany; 1939 German Invasion of Poland; CCC Camp; WPA Program; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; rationing; Army; Basic Training; Camp Robinson; Arkansas; combat medic; Battalion Headquarters; Army Specialized Training Program; ASTP; 103rd Infantry Division; Camp Claiborne; Louisiana; Company B; 328th Medical Battalion; Camp Howze; medical training; Medical Surgeon; Camp Shanks; New York; USS Monticello; Marseilles; France; Rock of Gibraltar; DUC; 328th Engineers; Roqueswiller; Battle of the Bulge; Red Ball Express; Mark Clark; Brenner Pass; Geneva Convention; Malmedy; Belgium; St. Die; prisoner of war; 410th Regiment; Camp Lucky Strike
EL-VOH-WWII-786 Interviewee: Don Albert; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 26, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:33:33
Subjects: flu epidemic; Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; class B; rationing; Navy; V-12 program; Engineering; electrical engineering; V-J Day; Naval Reserve; Korea; Mare Island; APD; Engineering officer; E Division; North Korea; South Korea; LSTs; Royal Air Force; Inchon invasion; Higgins boat; Horace A. Bass; Navy Reserve
EL-VOH-WWII-787 Interviewee: Minnie Stewart; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 30, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:00:14
Subjects: Okinawa; Naha; Kumaji School; Shinto; metal collecting; rationing; December 7, 1941; draft; Philippines; New Guinea; B-24; Okinawa invasion; nurse; Tusvoya; Keystone of the Pacific; Goat Eyes; Iskawa; DDT; 546th Ammunition Depot; Iha; war bride; Travis Air Force Base
EL-VOH-WWII-788 Interviewee: Alfred Highfield; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 13, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:26:52
Subjects: Great Depression; 1939 German invasion of Poland; Pearl Harbor; Henry J. Kaiser; shipyard; Liberty ship; Army; Fort Sill; Camp Swift; Basic Training; M-1; Rocky Mountain sight; Company A; 146th Combat Engineers; Walt Sires; Camp Miles Standish; Mauritania; Liverpool; Saunton Sands; Barnstaple; Southampton; 105th Combat Engineers; 30th Infantry Division; France; Normandy; St. Lo; Mortain; hedgerow; Panzer division; Paris; Battle of the Bugle; 25th Division; Holland; Malmedy; buzz bombs; Bastogne; screaming meemie; SS; Siegfried Line; Rhine River; amphibious tank; Magdeburg; Elbe River; Berlin; Russians; V-E Day; Hitler Youth; Army of Occupation; Czechoslovakia; Camp Oklahoma City; Queen Mary; Camp Kilmer
EL-VOH-WWII-789 Interviewee: Louis Gose; Blackwell, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 12, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 40:10
Subjects: Great Depression; 1939 German invasion of Poland; Bundles for Britain; December 7. 1941; rationing; draft; Shepherd Field; Basic Training; Fort Bliss; desert training; Africa; Philippines; jungle training; 389th Anti-Aircraft; USS Maui; Golden Gate Bridge; Manila; jeep driver; New Guinea; Morotai; B-25; V-J Day; Liberty ship
EL-VOH-WWII-790 Interviewee: Alfred Jones; Collinsville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 19, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:02:04
Subjects: CCC camp; Great Depression; draft; Movietone; December 7, 1941; Hitler; rationing; scrap metal drives; Basic Training; Fort McIntosh; Camp Shanks; England; USS George Washington; buzz bombs; France; D-Day; 179th Infantry; Normandy; Omaha Beach; Belgium; Holland; Silver Star; German Lugar pistol; autobahn; Battle of the Bulge; 178th Infantry; USS Cristobal; V-E Day; Hitler suicide; Hanover; death camps
EL-VOH-WWII-791 Interviewee: Dexter Smith; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 7, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:26:07
Subjects: Great Depression; WPA; CCC; Army; Japanese invasion of China; 1939 German invasion of Poland; Rise of Hitler; December 7, 1941; crop raising for the military; Camp Fannin; Camp Chaffee; Military Academy; Fort Meade; V-E Day; Panama Canal; Caribbean Defense Command; Canal Zone; Fort Clayton; Mira Flores Locks; V-J Day; C-46; Fort Sam Houston
Additional Material: Included with transcript are copies of notes made by Dexter Smith detailing his military service and experiences during World War II. There are three (3) pages of copied notes. Also included are three (3) digital copies of photos with Dexter Smith and Ganon Smith, and one military jacket denoting the rank of staff sergeant.
EL-VOH-WWII-792 Interviewee: Lloyd Dinsmore; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 22, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:23:13
Subjects: Japanese invasion of China; Rise of Hitler; 1939 German invasion of Poland; the Blitz; Dunkirk; Marines; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rationing; CCC camp; Guadalcanal; Boot Camp; ROTC; Esprit de Corps; M-1 rifle; Camp Pendleton; Armored Amphibian Tank Battalion; Maui; LST; Saipan; AK; 2nd Armored Amphibian Tank Battalion; Marianas; Tinian; 2nd Division; Iwo Jima; 4th Division; 5th Division; C Company; Red Beach Two; Suribachi; LVTA-4; Red Beach One; Guam; B-29; Okinawa; Mt. Suribachi; Raising the American flag on Mt. Suribachi; Death of Franklin Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Planned invasion of Japan; atomic bombs; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-793 Interviewee: Elmer McSpadden; Frankston, Texas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 22, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:35
Subjects: Camp Crowder; Movietone News; Great Depression; bootleggers; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Boy Scout Program; scrap metal drives; rubber drives; rationing; Navy; Phillips Field; Boot Camp; pilot program; V-12 Program; Brown Field; Carrier Makin Island; Guam; F4F Wildcat; Saipan; Shanghai; Singapore; B-29; Tinian; Kamikaze; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Operation Cornett; Chevrolet Beach; atomic bomb; Hiroshima; USS Hope; USS Comfort; Kobe; Osaka; US prisoners of war; Corregidor; Makin Island; Tokyo Bay; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-794 Interviewee: Ivan Lumley; Caney, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 28, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:02:16
Subjects: December 7, 1941; draft; Basic Training; Camp Robinson; Fort Sill; hedgerows; Camp Atterbury; Camp Miles Standish; USS Brazil; England; Liverpool; LST; Normandy; Omaha Beach; C Company; 119th Battalion; 30th Division; Fitzsimmons Hospital; St. Lo; General McNair; Fort Riley; German POWs; Fort Leavenworth; screaming meemies; 35th Division
EL-VOH-WWII-795 Interviewee: Marina Metevelis; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 5, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:33:06
Subjects: World War I; Amelia Earhart; Ellis Island; Star Line; Great Depression; hobos; Rise of Hitler; death camps; Battle of the Bulge; December 7, 1941; B-17; PT-19; Boeing; rivet school; blisters; Ford Motor Company; 9 yards; P-51; Boeing Aircraft; Bill Boeing; Cessna; Corregidor; Omaha Beach; Tulsa Tunnels; Prohibition; Rosie the Riveter
Additional Material: Included with the transcript is a three (3) page Internet article from the USHistory website about Rosie the Riveter. Also included is a newspaper article from the Northeast Campus newspaper about the Heritage Center and the Tulsa Community College, where Marina Metevelis discusses the role of the Heritage Center and the various exhibits on local history.
EL-VOH-WWII-796 Interviewee: William Miller; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 30, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:29:26
Subjects: Navy; Great Depression; CCC program; Japanese invasion of China; Manchuria; Chefu; Tsing Tao; Boxer Rebellion; Shanghai; Blood Alley; Boot Camp; Company 36-26; 26th Company; USS Waters; DD115; Rathborn; Talbot; Waters; Dent; Amelia Earhart; Pearl Harbor; Amelia Earhart Search; Asiatic Fleet; USS Panay; USS Chaumont; Manila; USS Paul Jones; DD230; Admiral Hart; Yellow Sea; 1939 German invasion of Poland; Great Britain; Lend Lease Program; 4th Marines; Beijing; Navy Reserve; Halifax; Nova Scotia; Iceland; Ruben James; U-boats; USS Kearney; December 7, 1941; USS Stratford; Gyro Compass School; Panama Canal; Samoa; Solomons; Auckland New Zealand; USS Hamlin; Sea Plane Tender; AV-15; Saipan; Iwo Jima; Higgins boat; Mt. Suribachi; American flag on Mt. Suribachi; PT boat; Kamikazes; USS Suwanee; CVE; Okinawa; Buckner Bay; American invasion of Japan; atomic bomb; President Truman; Nagasaki; TBM
EL-VOH-WWII-797 Interviewee: Alvin Sparkman; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 6, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:30:38
Subjects: Great Depression; black segregation; Movietone; Japanese invasion of China; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; rationing; Basic Training; Fort McClellan; M-1; Fort Ord; New Caledonia; Bougainville; 147th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division; Apololott; Golden Gate Bridge; 6th Replacement Depot; Guadalcanal; Lingayen Gulf; Philippines; Luzon; Leyte; Higgins boat; Manila; banzai; MacArthur; Iwo Jima; Mount Binacayan; GI Bill
EL-VOH-WWII-798 Interviewee: Vernon Myrick; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 44:36
Subjects: Great Depression; Movietone news; Hindenburg; Japanese invasion of China; 1939 German invasion of Poland; Mein Kampf; Rise of Hitler; CCC; Huey Long; December 7, 1941; Air Corps; Basic Training; Fort Sill; Shepherd Field; Sundance; USO; Air Traffic Control; 512nd Repair Squadron; OCS; 402nd Squadron; Air Service; Alaska; Fairbanks; 26 Mile; Dutch Harbor; Kiska; Attu; V-E Day; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-799 Interviewee: Ruth Andrews; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 1, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 36:36
Subjects: Great Depression; CCC; WPA; December 7, 1941; Douglas Aircraft; drill press; B-24; rationing; gasoline rations; defense jobs; war bonds; war bond drives
EL-VOH-WWII-800 Interviewee: Frank Crow; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 5, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:20:26
Subjects: Pearl Harbor; Rise of Hitler; December 7, 1941; Air Corps; Basic Training; Lowery Field; Scott Field; radar; McDill Field; 3rd Photo Recon Squadron; F-2; Beechcraft; B-25; Aleutian Islands; C-3 Trimat Cameras; British Guiana; B-29; Saipan; Guam; USS Mormac Wren; Merchant Marine; V-J Day; IFF
EL-VOH-WWII-801 Interviewee: Luther McDowell; Cherryvale, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 16, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:24:25
Subjects: Great Depression; WPA; CCC; dust storms; dust pneumonia; Japanese invasion of China; Movietone news; Rise of Hitler; 1939 German invasion of Poland; Okie; Arkie; draft; Army; Basic Training; Fort Leonard Wood; Engineer training; 43rd Engineers; Camp Robinson; 23rd Engineers; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; 35th Division; New Guinea; Brooklyn Navy Yards; Thomas H. Barry; German submarine; Melbourne; Australia; Battle of the Coral Sea; Dobudura; 5th Air Corps; Dutch East Indies; 13th Air Corps; Morotai Island; B-24; B-25; Tokyo Rose; Manila; Philippines; USO; Bob Hope; Joe E. Brown; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-802 Interviewee: Russell Kunkler; Joplin, Missouri Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 22, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:05:56
Subjects: Great Depression; WPA; dust storms; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Navy; Camp Crowder; Fort Leonard Wood; rationing; ration stamps; Farragut; Boot Camp; Camp Benyon; Great Lakes Training Camp; Basic Engineering; Diesel School; LSM- 123; Brown Shipyards; Fairbanks-Morse 3268A; Panama; Okinawa; PBY; seaplane; Iwo Jima; Eniwetok; Guam; Buckner Bay; Saipan; Ia Shima; Ernie Pyle; B-29; LST; American invasion of Japan; Philippines; Kamikaze; suicide boat; V-J Day; Occupation of Japan; Kure Navy Base; Additional Material: Included with the transcript is a digitized photograph of Russell Kunkler’s Navy portrait and written on the reverse side is ‘Russell Kunkler 1943- Houston’
EL-VOH-WWII-803 Interviewee: Allan Stocker; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 7, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 59:20
Subjects: Great Depression; Japanese invasion of China; Panay; Rise of Hitler; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Bundles for Britain; scrap metal drives; Red Cross; Navy; Eddy Program; Great Lakes; Boot Camp; WAVES; WACS; Navy Pier; American invasion of Japan; V-J Day; USS Stanton; APA 69; Aiea; LST 727; USS Tutuila; Shanghai; Nationalists; Communists; Canal Zone; Yangtze River;
EL-VOH-WWII-804 Interviewee: Dean Gillham; Catoosa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 27, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 41:57
Subjects: Pearl Harbor; Air Corps; Basic Training; Lowery Field; Armament School; Tyndall Field; Gunnery School; B-17; 345th Bomb Squadron; 98th Bomb Group; 15th Air Force; B-24; Ball Turret Gunner; Casablanca; Marrakesh; Lecce; Italy; missions; V-E Day
EL-VOH-WWII-805 Interviewee: Mel Shutt; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 9, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:03:25
Subjects: Dust storms; dust pneumonia; Dust Bowl; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; Boeing; rationing; ration stamps; V-J Day; Marines; Boot Camp; Bataan Death March; M-1 rifle; USS Mitchell; China; Philippines; Tientsin; Motor Transport Battalion; 1st Marine Division; Beijing; Quonset huts; Communists; Nationalists; Guam; USO
EL-VOH-WWII-806 Interviewee: William Kruckenberg; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 10, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:33:34
Subjects: Dust Bowl; dust storms; rise of Hitler; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; ROTC; WAVES; ASTP; rationing; Fort Belvoir; SNAFU; Basic Training; Engineering; Combat Engineers; 5th Army group; BOQ; Bachelor Officers Quarters; V-J Day; Korea; 361st Engineers; 20th Engineer Brigade; S-3; Fort Leonard Wood
EL-VOH-WWII-807 Interviewee: Bruton Bennett; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 26, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:02:06
Subjects: Great Depression; CCC program; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Camp Gruber; Pearl Harbor; draft; Basic Training; Army; Camp Hulen; M-1; Camp Cook; Company B; 202nd Anti Aircraft; USS West Point; Golden Gate Bridge; Milne Bay; New Guinea; LCI; Port Battalion; Finschafen; LST; Leyte; Mindoro; Philippines; LST 460; Zamboanga; Mindanao; Kamikaze; Manila; V-J Day; Fort Leavenworth;
EL-VOH-WWII-808 Interviewee: Henry Templeton; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 2, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:18:01
Subjects: Great Depression; 1939 German invasion of Poland; scrap metal drives; paper drives; Pearl Harbor; Navy; Boot camp; Radio School; Morse Code; semaphones; Signalman School; Radioman; Camp Shoemaker; USS Carlisle; APA; Amphibious Transport; Camp Pendleton; Eniwetok; Iwo Jima; Beach Party; atomic bomb; V-J Day; Korea; Treasure Island; WAVES
Additional Material: Ms. Templeton interjects briefly throughout the interview to elaborate on some questions and answers. EL-VOH-WWII-809 Interviewee: Don Peters; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 19, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 50:56
Subjects: dust storms; Great Depression; Movietone news; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Roosevelt; rationing; Army; Basic Training; Camp Wolters; Fort Leavenworth; Camp Stoneman; Fort Ord; USS General Hays; Golden Gate Bridge; Hollandia; Philippines; Leyte; Manila; 38th Division; 151st Infantry Regiment; 2nd Battalion; medic; Bataan; Banzai; Geneva Convention; invasion of Japan; atomic bomb; V-J Day; Army of Occupation; USO; Bob Hope; Bagio; Luzon
Additional Material: Included with transcript is a one-page photocopy of four pictures containing Don Peters. The title at the top reads ‘Vet Don Peters’. From the upper left corner and moving clockwise there are the following: Don – 18 CP. Wolters, TX, 1944; Don – 18 1944; Jake (Grandson) Don –Age 86, 2012; Don and wife June, 2012. On the reverse, an inscription reads ‘printed from Sean’.
EL-VOH-WWII-810 Interviewee: William Finch; Edmond, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 12, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:54:08
Subjects: Great Depression; 1939 German invasion of Poland; rise of Hitler; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rationing; Bataan Death March; Navy; Submarine Service; Boot camp; USS Sea Barb; Kaneohe Naval Air Station; Amphibious School; USS Arizona; Gunnery School; FNJ; USS Enterprise; Air Group 10; Midway; CASCUs; Combat Carrier Service Unit; AMM; Aviation Machinist Mate; SBD Dauntless; Scout Bomber Douglass; Marshall Islands; Eniwetok; Cebu City; Philippines; Marianas Turkey Shoot; Saipan; Marpi Point; napalm; Tanapak Harbor; Guam; Tinian; Pelilu; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; USS Franklin; Bonhomme Richard; Gilbert Island; Australia; New Zealand
Additional Material: Included with transcript is a 2x3” photo of William Finch as a rear airplane gunner with a pilot named Glenn Deering. The photo was taken on board the carrier USS Enterprise, which was carrying Air Group 10.
EL-VOH-WWII-811 Interviewee: Tillie Christensen; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 11, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:28
Subjects: Bombing of London; Trafalgar Square School; rise of Hitler; Dunkirk; Molotov Basket; The Blitz; blackouts; Glasgow; Scotland; D-Day; V-E Day; Twickingham
Additional Material: Included with transcript is a photocopy of Tillie Christensen, circa 1940 -1945.
EL-VOH-WWII-812 Interviewee: LeRoy Young; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 24, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 39:28
Subjects: Great Depression; Pearl Harbor; December 7, 1941; scrap metal drives; rationing; gas stamps; food stamps; Navy; Boot Camp; USO; Treasure Island; Bob Hope; AK 235; USS Red Oak Victory; Auxiliary Cargo Ship; Kaiser Shipyard; Machinist Mate; convoy; Philippines; Leyte Gulf; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-813 Interviewee: Bill Maggard; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 30, 2013 Format: 8mm with two (2) DVD reference copies TRT: 2:03:02
Subjects: Great Depression; Japanese invasion of China; Nazi rallies in Germany; rise of Hitler; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; rationing; Air Corps; Basic Training; Shepherd Field; Truax Field; Chanute Field; Advance Radar Training; German U-boats; Camp Kearns; Camp Stoneman; USS Botetourt; Golden Gate Bridge; Army Airway Communications; IFF; Identification Friend or Foe; New Caledonia; Philippines; Guam; North Field; B-29; Saipan; B-17; 8th Air Force; 20th Air Force; V-J Day; Ia Shima; Okinawa; Korea;
Additional Material: The envelope did not include a paper transcript. It did contain an additional CD that holds the transcripts of twenty-four (24) WWII oral history interviews, including Bill Maggard. A copy of the Maggard transcript was printed for the record. The CD case is marked ‘WWII Oral History Transcripts’. Also included is an 8x10” color picture of Bill Maggard in his Air Corps military uniform, with ‘Maggard’ written on the bottom reverse side in black ink. Another item is a handwritten note by a Jana Marion to Joe Todd asking for an additional DVD copy of the interview and giving the aforementioned picture of Maggard to Joe Todd. There is a second copy of the interview on DVD, which is labeled EL-VOH-WWII-813A.
EL-VOH-WWII-814 Interviewee: Allen Twigg; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 29, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 36:37
Subjects: Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rubber drives; Army; V-J Day; Army Air Corps; Basic Training; Lackland; Automobile School; Lowery Field; Mechanic School; Grainger; USS Thomas; Golden Gate Bridge; Yokohama; Guam; Northwest Field; 6th Air Force; Scott Field; Panama Canal Zone
Additional Material: No transcript found for Twigg interview. Placeholder put in box.
EL-VOH-WWII-815 Interviewee: Clayton Myers; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 5, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:16:24
Subjects: Great Depression; Movietone; CCC program; Pearl Harbor; draft; Navy; Boot Camp; Camp Bradford; Diesel school; LST; LST 506; LST 973; V-J Day
Additional Material: Included with transcript is 2x3” black and white portrait of Myers in Navy uniform. Reverse side reads ‘Clayton DeWayne Myers U.S.N. 1944 25 years old’
EL-VOH-WWII-816 Interviewee: Harry Warden Jr.; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 30, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:36:00
Subjects: Japanese invasion of China; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Army; Air Corps; Basic Training; PT-22; BT-13; Vultee; Luke Field; AT-6; P-39; Japanese internment camps; P-38; Flying Tigers; 9th Bomb Squadron; 7th Bomb Group; India; Pandeswar; Rangoon; Kunming; Karachi; ‘The Hump’; Himalayas; V-J Day; Korea; Wing Operations Additional Material: EL-VOH-WWII-817 Interviewee: Glenn Oliver; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 7, 2009 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:02:29
Subjects: 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; rationing; V-J Day; Army; Basic Training; Fort Lewis; Victory ship; Japan; Yokohama; Military Government Team; Cook and Baker’s School; Ernie Pyle Theater; Korea; Foot Hood; Company E; 36th Infantry Regiment; 25th Infantry Division; Yalu River; prison camp; propaganda class; Camp 5
Additional Material: Included with transcript is a copy of the release form for the interview. It is labeled EL-VOH-WWII-817A.
EL-VOH-WWII-818 Interviewee: Elmer Storms; Joplin, Missouri Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 24, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:22
Subjects: Great Depression; Japanese invasion of China; USS Panay; rise of Hitler; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Lend-Lease program; Air Corps; Basic Training; Fort Wayne; German POWs; Primary Flight Training; Pecos Army Air Field; B-25; 7th Air Force; 41st Bomb Group; Mastonia; 47th Squadron; Midway; Tarawa; Gilbert Islands; Marshall Islands; Apamama; V-E Day; V-J Day
Additional Material: Included in the transcript is a digital copy of Elmer Storms B-25 crew; Thomas Tobin radio operator, Peter Bednarz gunner, Dale Storms pilot, Larry Sweetland co-pilot, Jim Henderson navigator, Max Kehow flight engineer.
EL-VOH-WWII-819 Interviewee: Thelma Haynes; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 16, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:24:56
Subjects: WPA; Great Depression; December 7, 1941; scrap metal drives; rubber drives; Red Cross; rationing; German POWs; V-J Day; Fort Wolters; Fort Hood; Fort Bliss; 826th Engineer Aviation Battalion; Jim Crow; Korea;
EL-VOH-WWII-820 Interviewee: Richard Kuerston; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 8, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 51:09
Subjects: Great Depression; 1939 German invasion of Poland; Bundles for Britain; war stamps, war bonds; scrap metal drives; December 7, 1941; ROTC; rationing; Navy; Boot Camp; Camp Perry; Seabees; Camp Hueneme; Liberty ship; Pearl Harbor; LST; 13th Special Seabees; Stevedores; Guam; USO; Betty Hutton; atomic bomb; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-821 Interviewee: William Reynolds; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 24, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:36:57
Subjects: Born in Arkansas; went to school in Oklahoma; left school; father beat him with a strap; basic training in Amarillo, Texas; 78th Infantry Regiment; German civilians; discharged December 17, 1945
EL-VOH-WWII-822 Interviewee: Viola Fletcher; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 21, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 31:56
Subjects: sharecroppers; Dust Bowl; Los Angeles; December 7, 1941; shipyards; welder; ship fitters; Cal-Ship; California Shipyards; Okies; Arkies; tankers; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII-823 Interviewee: Phil Lorenz; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 13, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 36:02
Subjects: Japanese invasion of China; Rise of Hitler; German treatment of Jews; Gypsies; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Princeton University; Columbia University; Manhattan Project; Uranium hexafluoride; Uranium-238; Uranium-235; corrosion process; Oak Ridge Tennessee; Carbide and Carbon Corporation; rationing; Pot testing; W.F. Libby; Nobel Prize; atomic bomb; Hiroshima; Trinity test; V-J Day; Bureau of Mines; Energy Research and Development; Department of Energy
EL-VOH-WWII-824 Interviewee: Bob Rigney; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 21, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 42:54
Subjects: Great Depression; camp houses; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rationing; Navy; Camp Wallace; Galveston; Boot Camp; Norfolk; Quonset Point; aviation mechanic school; Naval Air Station; F4F; F6F; Sanford; atomic bomb; V-J Day; Oklahoma A&M; Oklahoma National Guard; Korea; Battery B, 145th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion; Camp Polk; Basic Training; Fort Bliss; USS General Simon B. Buckner; Panama Canal; Hokkaido Japan; 38th Parallel; First Cavalry Division; Seoul; Sasebo; USS Sphinx
Additional Material: Included with transcript are two (2) photographs of Bob Rigney. The first photograph is Rigney in Navy uniform, and writing on the reverse side reads “Bob Rigney, US Navy – WWII, Great-grandfather of Isabella House, Grade K.’ the second photo is Rigney in Oklahoma National Guard uniform, and writing on the reverse side reads “Bob Rigney, US Army – Korean War, Great-grandfather of Isabella House, Grade K.”
EL-VOH-WWII-825 Interviewee: Orin Currie; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 11, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 48:35
Subjects: Dust storms; December 7, 1941; 1939 German invasion of Poland; Navy; Boot camp; V-7 Program; commission officers; Diesel School; Officers Training; LSM 252; Pearl Harbor; plank owner; atomic bomb; Tokyo Harbor
EL-VOH-WWII-826 Interviewee: Merrill Schnitzer; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 15, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:03:57
Subjects: Great Depression; dust storms; Northwestern State College; CCC; WPA; Rise of Hitler; 1939 German invasion of Poland; Rough Riders; Japanese invasion of China; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rubber drives; rationing; Spartan Aircraft; Navy; Navy Officers Training Program; Annapolis; Bancroft Hall; Boot camp; Amphibious; Diesel engineering school; POW camp; Norfolk; Camp Bradford; LST 681; Guadalcanal; Hollandia; Landing Ship Tank; “Large Slow Target”; Gulf of Mexico; German U-boats; USO; Harry James; Hollywood Canteen; Engineering Officer; General Quarters; sea water evaporators; South Pacific; New Britain; Milne Bay; Russell Islands; Solomon Islands; LCT; Land Craft Tank; Philippines; Luzon; Linguyan Gulf; Leyte; Surigao Straits; South China Sea; Japanese swimmers; Okinawa; Kamikazes; First Marine Division; LVT; Naha Bay; IFF; Identification Friend or Foe; USS New Mexico; Admiral Spruance; Saipan; invasion of Japan; V-J Day; GI Bill
Additional Material: During the interview, Schnitzer shows the ship blueprints and indicates his General Quarters and main engine rooms.
EL-VOH-WWII-827 Interviewee: Merrill Hawke; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 19, 2012 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 49:35
Subjects: Japanese invasion of China; Rise of Hitler; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rubber drives; rationing; draft; Navy; Boot camp; Great Lakes; Radio Technician; Electrician School; USS Point Crews; escort carrier; Guam; Bikini Atoll; atomic bomb tests; invasion of Japan; Kamikazes; V-J Day;
Additional Material: No transcript accompanying the DVD and 8mm.
EL-VOH-WWII-828 Interviewee: Neale Shaw; Parsons, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 19, 2010 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 37:22
Subjects: Great Depression; Japanese invasion of China; 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rubber drives; rationing; ROTC; Basic Training; Camp Robinson; Lewis and Clark Division; 70th Infantry Division; Army; France; Marseilles; Battle of the Bulge; Fort Leavenworth; Fort Leonard Wood; Rhine; V-E Day; concentration camps; Gestapo; Army of occupation;
EL-VOH-WWII-829 Interviewee: George O’Brien; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 20, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:52:14
Subjects: 1939 German invasion of Poland; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; paper collecting; scrap metal drives; US Steel; war bonds; ration stamps; Navy; Sampson Naval Training Station; boot camp; USS Vesuvius; striking; Quartermaster; 34th Street Pier; helmsman; Special Sea Detail; shakedown cruise; Panama Canal; Pacific; Eniwetok; Ulithi; Okinawa; Philippines; Leyte Gulf; typhoon; Japan; atomic bomb; USS Indianapolis; Brown Shipyard; Captain’s Mast; GI Bill;
Additional Material: Included with the transcript is a history of the actions of the USS Vesuvius; starting from its commission, shakedown, and service in the Pacific Theater.
EL-VOH-WWII-830 Interviewee: Jack Leisure; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 29, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 46:13
Subjects: Coffeyville; Bartlesville; College High School; Sanipool; lifeguard; December 7, 1941; scrap metal drive; scrap metal business; rationing; Great Depression; Marines; Boot Camp; San Diego; train trip; aviation school; Miramar; Memphis; Millington base; SBD dive bomber; shipped overseas; troop ship; Hawaii; Pearl Harbor; Arizona and Oklahoma; South Pacific; Caroline Islands; plane captain; fly gunner; Japanese Zero; SBD; TBF torpedo bomber; Philippines; MacArthur; Leyte; Luzon; invasion of Japan; atomic bomb; V-J Day; San Diego; troop ship home; burials at sea; discharged; Oklahoma A & M; geology
EL-VOH-WWII- 831 Interviewee: George Weaver; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 8, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 53:20
Subjects: Vinita, Oklahoma; Great Depression; China; German invasion of Poland 1939; Oregon; Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; Japanese concentration camps; shipyards; scrap metal or rubber drives; Navy; Corpus Christi, Texas; boot camp; San Diego; PBY patrol bomber; plane captain; Philippines; Hawaii; Pearl Harbor; Leyte Gulf; rescue and sub patrol; invasion of Japan; PBY 3; PBY 5A; discharged; Miami, Oklahoma; rubber plant; Grove, Oklahoma; coin laundry; Claremore, Oklahoma
EL-VOH-WWII- 832 Interviewee: Perry McGeehee; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 21, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 44:24
Subjects: Chilocco; CCC camp; Army; basic training; Fort Benning; jump school; 82nd Airborne; 507th; Ireland; D-Day; France; capture; POW camp; Battle of the Bulge; Germany; German surrender; coming home
EL-VOH-WWII- 833 Interviewee: Frank Franchi; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 24, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 31:34
Subjects: Winnetka, Illinois; Great Depression; Civilian Conservation Corps; Michigan; Italy; Mussolini; Hitler; German invasion of Poland 1939; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; basic training; Fort Sheridan; pole climbing; Aleutian Islands; Alcan Highway; discharged; California
EL-VOH-WWII- 834 Interviewee: Glen Stevens; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 26, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:02:31
Subjects: Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Butler Creek School; oil fields; oil wells; Great Depression; theaters; drafted; basic training; Fort Sill; Fort Ord; Caterpillar Tractors; Pearl Harbor; San Francisco; 57th Artillery; Moro Bay; Attu; Hawaii; Kwajalein; Philippines; Leyte; Okinawa; maintenance section; invasion of Japan; Kansas City; discharged; Roosevelt; Truman
EL-VOH-WWII- 835 Interviewee: Ralph Lawson; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 22, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:34:59
Subjects: Yukon, Oklahoma; farming; Yukon High School; Great Depression; China; Germany; Seattle; Pearl Harbor; Marine Corps; boot camp; sea school; USS Saratoga; orderly; Iwo Jima; suicide plane; Hawaii; invasion of Japan; atomic bombs; Japanese surrender; discharged; Roosevelt; Truman; Admiral Nimitz
EL-VOH-WWII- 836 Interviewee: Wilford Rund; El Reno, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 11, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 23:25
Subjects: Okarche, Oklahoma; Cooper school; farming; Great Depression; dust storms; December 7th, 1941; rationing; cattle; V-J Day; Butane Company; Roosevelt; Truman
EL-VOH-WWII- 837 Interviewee: Charles Dewayne Crone; El Reno, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 11, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 15:56
Subjects: Blum, Kansas; farming; Great Depression; December 7, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Navy; boot camp; Great Lakes; YMS-367; mine sweeper; Borneo; mines Roosevelt; Truman; Admiral Nimitz
EL-VOH-WWII- 838 Interviewee: Edgar Leimbach; El Reno, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 11, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 45:26
Subjects: Wittenberg, Missouri; Rich School; farming; Great Depression; farm; December 7th, 1941; Pearl Harbor; scrap metal drives; rationing; drafted; basic training; Camp Fannin; troop ship; England; France; Germany; Hitler; Russia; SS; Berlin; St. Louis; the front; Roosevelt; Truman
EL-VOH-WWII- 839 Interviewee: Harold Goldman; Weatherford, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 9, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:23:17
Subjects: Sheboygan, Wisconsin; dairy farm; Great Depression; drafted; December 7th, 1941; Fort Jackson; basic training; New York City; troop ship; Africa; Anzio; Rome; Marseilles; Rhone Valley; Rhine; captured; prison camp; escape; liberated; Liberty ship; train home; discharged; high school education; college; missionary; Germany; Argentina
EL-VOH-WWII- 840 Interviewee: John A. Hammond; Edmond, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 22, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 58:26
Subjects: Ponchatoula, Louisiana; Phoenix, Arizona; Coast Guard; boot camp; New Orleans; Brunswick, Georgia-patrol; German U Boats; LST- Landing Ship Tank; Ia Shima; Iwo Jima; Kamikazes; Pearl Harbor; Mount Suribachi; Okinawa; Japanese surrender; Henderson State Teachers College; Air Force; cadet school; San Angelo, Texas; Goodfellow Air Force base; F-51; B-25; North Korea; South Korea; Seoul; C-47; Dover Air Force base; Roosevelt; Truman; Eisenhower
EL-VOH-WWII- 841 Interviewee: Woodie, Sylvester; Weatherford, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 9, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:01:11
Subjects: Chilton, Texas; Marlin, Texas; Great Depression; China; Germany; Hitler; Mussolini; Italy; theaters; December 7th, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Fort Sill; Will Rogers Field; basic training; Louisiana Maneuvers; Camp Kilmer, New Jersey; USS Thurston; Casa Blanca; Tunis; Kasserine Pass; Gela, Sicily; Palermo; invasion of Italy; Salerno; Naples; Rome; Pope; Corsica; St. Tropez, France; Strasbourg; Alsace-Lorraine; Battle of the Bulge; Germany; Dachau; Darmstadt; V-E Day; discharged; Roosevelt; Truman; Eisenhower; Patton
Additional Material: Two photographs of USS Thurston
EL-VOH-WWII- 842 Interviewee: Bill Parker; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 27, 2016 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:37:18
Subjects: Torrance, California; farming; Elmore City, Oklahoma; Parks school; Great Depression; Fort Sill; Camp Wolters, Texas; Camp Shanks, New York; England; D-Day; St. Lo; Brest; Elbe River; December 7th, 1941; Pearl Harbor; Omaha Beach; England; Slapton Sands; Eisenhower; Siegfried Line; Aachen; Battle of the Bulge; Hitler; Roosevelt; Truman
EL-VOH-WWII- 843 Interviewee: Margaret V. Martin; Coffeeville, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 15, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:45:21
Subjects: Childhood in Franklin, Texas; December 7th 1941; working as a typist in Washington, D.C. during the war
EL-VOH-WWII- 844 Interviewee: Emmett Dudley Hallaway; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 10, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:56:17
Subjects: Recollections of moving about as a childhood; leaving school after 8th grade; working for Kelly Miller Brothers Circus; drafted into the Army in 1945; basic training at Fort Hood, Texas; V-J Day; post-war Germany
EL-VOH-WWII- 845 Interviewee: Hugh B. Fraser; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 18, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:45:43
Subjects: Childhood in Gibson, New Mexico; working during high school in service station in Gallup, New Mexico; studying civil engineering at Texas A&M; ROTC; basic training at Camp Roberts, California; officers training at Fort Benning, Georgia; commissioned 1943; 42nd Division; landing in Marseilles, France; Battle of the Bulge; Dachau; return to Texas A&M after the war
EL-VOH-WWII- 846 Interviewee: Oscar Nipps; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 31, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:11:11
Subjects: Childhood in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; rationing; basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas; Fort Ord, California; New Guinea; Leyte; Luzon; V-J Day
EL-VOH-WWII- 847 Interviewee: Margaret Augusta De Frees; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 4, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:53:27
Subjects: Growing up on a farm in Tonganoxie, Kansas; the Great Depression; Pearl Harbor; work for North American Aviation making B-24s;move to Bartlesville in 1950
EL-VOH-WWII- 848 Interviewee: Lonnie Johnson; El Reno, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 15, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:46:18
Subjects: Growing in Chickasha, Oklahoma; working in an Italian restaurant; joined the Navy in 1953; LST 746; LST-845; discharge 1955 in San Diego
EL-VOH-WWII- 849 Interviewee: J. Lynn Schellack; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 11, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:36:20
Subjects: Working on a farm in Oklahoma; the Great Depression; basic training at Amarillo Army Ari Base; working on B-29 engines; 13th Air Force in the Philippines EL-VOH-WWII- 850 Interviewee: Lorainne Beckwith; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 11, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:38:21
Subjects: Father worked construction for Phillips Petroleum; shopping Bartlesville, household chores while growing up; joined the Army in April 943; basic training at Camp Monticello, Arkansas; discharged August 1943
EL-VOH-WWII- 851 Interviewee: Floyd Arthur Holmes; Grove, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 23, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:22:04
Subjects: Childhood in Prescott; degree in entomology from Kansas State University; teaching high school in Stockdale, Kansas; drafted after Pearl Harbor; shipped out to Hawaii; landed at Pearl Harbor; work in hematology lab at North Sector General Hospital; Officer Candidate School at Camp Barkley, Texas; 211th Malaria Survey Unit in Australia; battle of Leyte Gulf; discharged in 1945; work for DuPont after the war
EL-VOH-WWII- 852 Interviewee: Bonnie Clavijo; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 1, 2018 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:39:08
Subjects: Growing up in South Dakota; farming; job as telephone operator in Minnesota; rationing; joined the Coast Guard; stationed in Charleston, South Carolina; discharged in 1946; V-E Day work in New Orleans after the war
EL-VOH-WWII- 853 Interviewee: Gonzolo Ferrer; Midwest City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 10, 2018 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:01:32
Subjects: Childhood in Puerto Rico; joined Army in 1942; basic training; 296th Infantry Regiment; patrol duty in St. Croix; Borinquen Field; V-J Day parade; studied pharmacy after the war; service in Korea; 13 months service in Vietnam
EL-VOH-WWII- 854 Interviewee: Kenneth Forrester; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 26, 2018 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:34:04
Subjects: Childhood in Spiro, Oklahoma; joined Army in August 1940; basic training in Galveston, Texas; North Island Naval Air Station at San Diego; 709th Airborne Antiaircraft; Australia; battle of Milne Bayl New Guinea; work of American Airlines
EL-VOH-WWII- 855 Interviewee: Robert Brooks; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 10, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:03:03
Subjects: Growing up on a dairy farm; joined Marines in June 1943; went to cable splicing school in Los Angeles; Camp Pendleton; Hawaii; Iwo Jima; LSTs landing on beach; clearing caves on Iwo Jima; Nagasaki, Japan
Additional Material: Biographical sketch
EL-VOH-WWII- 856 Interviewee: William Griesez; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 27, 2018 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:01:55
Subjects: Childhood in Ohio; joined the National Guard; Louisana Maneuvers; unite activated September 1940; training at Fort Sill; volunteered for the paratroopers; first jump; left New York for Casa Blanca; North Africa; Sicily; captured in July 1943; Naples; POW camp in Poland; liberation by 82nd Airborne; discharged summer of 1945
EL-VOH-WWII- 857 Interviewee: Edgar Perez; Sperry, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 3, 2018 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 2:02:20
Subjects: Born in Danli, Honduras; worked in office at local gold mine; making charcoal; came to the United State in 1945; studied at Spartan Aviation; pilot’s license
EL-VOH-WWII- 858 Interviewee: Bennie Lee Jefferies; Winfield, Kansas Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 13, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:55:52
Subjects: Childhood in Harper Country, Kansas, on a cattle ranch; working at Boeing; drafted in 1942; AT-g Trainer; Fort Myers; B-17 training; Kearney, Nebraska; sailed for Liverpool on the Queen Mary; 306th Bomb Group; mission to Berlin; D-Day; discharged in 1945
EL-VOH-WWII- 859 Interviewee: Marvin Cary; Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 26, 2018 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:52:44
Subjects: Growing up in Sand Springs, White City and Coffeyville, Kansas; father lost job in Great Depression; played football in high school; drafted February 1943; basic training at Fort Leavenworth; Louisiana Maneuvers; shipped out on the Queen Mary; 104th Infantry Division; German front; Battle of the Bulge; Army of Occupation in Germany; discharged March 1946
EL-VOH-WWII- 860 Interviewee: Russell Shelton; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: December 19, 2017 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:19:30
Subjects: Born in Lone Oak, Kentucky; graduated high school in 1942; chores on farm; attended Paducah Junior College; enlisted in reserve unit in November 1942;Army Specialized Training Program; Camp Roberts; Louisian Maneuvers; Camp Phillips in Salina, Kansas; landed at Cherbourg after D-Day; 44th Infantry Division; first day of combat in October 1944; Battle of the Bulge; crossing into Germany; Austria; discharged November 1945; work for Phillips Petroleum after the war
EL-VOH-WWII- 861 Interviewee: Dick Hall; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2018 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:19:21
Subjects: Childhood in Nebraska; father managed a cattle ranch; dust storms in Nebraska; studied chemical engineering at the University of Nebraska; joined ROTC; commissioned a lieutenant in the reserves in 1942; called to active during in 1943; sent to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, as a chemical officer meeting ships carrying ammunition; 94th Chemical Mortar Battalion; Fort Rucker, Alabama; Scotland, 3rd Army; Battle of the Bulge; left active service May 1946; worked for Phillips Petroleum after the war
Additional Material: Photo showing a convoy alongside a road, photos of two pages from a handwritten journal
EL-VOH-WWII- 862 Interviewee: Bill Pummill; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: November 6, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:17:37
Subjects: Growing up in Crocker, Missouri; Living through the Great Depression; hearing news about Pearl Harbor; joined Marines in August 1942; boot camp in San Diego; Communications School; 3rd Marine Division; USS Mount Vernon; New Zealand; Guadalcanal; Bougainville; Eniwetok; Guam; Iwo Jima; Army Records Center; move to Tulsa in 1949
EL-VOH-WWII- 863 Interviewee: Wesley S. Melton; Pawhuska, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 18, 2011 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:07:21
Subjects: Growing up in Oglesby, Oklahoma; left school after the 8th grade; to work as a carpenter; rationing; basic training in Fort Smith, Arkansas; Fort Ord, California; Luzon Island, Philippines; Tokyo, Japan; discharge January 1947
EL-VOH-WWII- 864 Interviewee: Leona Mullins; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 3, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:55:04
Subjects: Father was a blacksmith in Ochelata, Oklahoma; played basketball in high school; rationing during the war; scrap metal drives; move to California; training as a welder; working in shipyards
EL-VOH-WWII- 865 Interviewee: Forrest Henry Jones; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: March 16, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:55:54
Subjects: Born in Columbus, Kansas; graduated from high school in 1943; basic training at Camp Gruber; medical soldier; Camp Kilmer, New Jersey; Rhone River valley; 7th Army; liberation of Dachau; discharged June 21, 1946; attended medical school
EL-VOH-WWII- 866 Interviewee: Bob Case; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 1, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:52:25
Subjects: Born in Cameron, Missouri; graduated from high school in Independence, Missouri; father lost farm in depression; drafted in April 1943; basic training in Quartermaster; attended engineering training college; 42nd Division; Regis College; attended University of Missouri at Columbia; worked for Phillips Petroleum
EL-VOH-WWII- 867 Interviewee: Joyelene Case; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 1, 2014 Format: 8mm with 2 DVD reference copies TRT: 0:52:25
Subjects: Born in Doans, Texas; moved to Colorado in first grade; graduated from high school in Elizabethton, Tennessee; father was a coalminer; went to nursing school; joined Army Nurse Corps
EL-VOH-WWII- 868 Interviewee: Louis J. Thompson; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2013 Format: 2 DVDs TRT: 1:01:16
Subjects: Growing up on a farm near Hatton, North Dakota; graduated from high school in 1935; attended college in Fargo, North Dakota; worked as a chemist in Panama in September 1941; work for Phillips Petroleum
EL-VOH-WWII- 869 Interviewee: Daniel C. Keim; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: January 23, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:53:29
Subjects: Born in Walter, Oklahoma; father was a dentist who went into real estate; scrap metal drives; graduated from high school in May 1943; drafted in September 1943; basic training at March Field in Riverside, California; 1876th Engineer Aviation Battalion; Luzon; discharged January 1946
EL-VOH-WWII- 870 Interviewee: Franklin L. Sewell; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 21, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 01:08:56
Subjects: Born in Independence, Kansas; graduated from high school in 19451; father was a heavy equipment operator for the county and a farmer; joined Army Air Corps in October 1942; basic training in Texas and Coffeyville, Kansas; BT-13s; left for overseas November 1944; German POWs; left Germany in March 1946; discharged later the same month
EL-VOH-WWII- 871 Interviewee: Bob Lowrance; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 23, 2013 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:41:56
Subjects: Born in Barnard, Missouri; father was a father; joined the Navy in 1943; boot camp in Farragut, Idaho; Navy radio school; sent to Hawaii; Guam
EL-VOH-WWII- 872 Interviewee: Ted Phillips; Dewey, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 5, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:17:14
Subjects: Growing up in Wymore, Nebraska; left school in the 10th grade; joined the Air Corps in June 1946; basic training in San Antonio, Texas; aircraft mechanic on B-29; Chanute Field, Illinois; Biloxi, Mississippi; Yokohama, Japan; Greenland; discharged March 1964
EL-VOH-WWII- 873 Interviewee: Cliff Sousa; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: February 11, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:08:21
Subjects: Childhood in New London, Connecticut; father was an electrician; the Great Depression; joined the Navy in 1943; attended Fire Control School; San Francisco; MS Daystar to Milne Bay, New Guinea; USS Conyngham; Okinawa; how he met his wife; served in Merchant Marines after the war; left Mercanti Marines in 1947; studied engineering in college in Indiana; moved to Bartlesville in 1952
Additional Material: Lee Overall Time Book with notes about his service in the Merchant Marines; booklet for “Cliff’s 8th, February 7, 2003
EL-VOH-WWII- 874 Interviewee: Jim Loftis; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 17, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:04
Subjects: Born in Tillman County, Oklahoma; helping around the farm; difficult times during the Depression; went to Oklahoma A&M after high school; degree in agronomy in 1943; Army ROTC on campus; Officers Candidate School inFort Know, Kentcuky; commissioned October 1943; 717th Tank Battalion; Fort Chaffee; sent to Europe; crossing the Rhine River; preparing for invasion of Japan; separated in April 1946
EL-VOH-WWII- 875 Interviewee: Roy Johnson; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 14, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:15
Subjects: born in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma; left school after the 8th grade; father farmed; drafted in 1941; basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia; sent to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he worked with pack mules; Camp Kilmer, New Jersey; shipped out to Europe; 3094th Refrigeration Unit; crossing the Rhine River; Manila, Philippines
EL-VOH-WWII- 876 Interviewee: Everet E. Stong; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 5, 2003 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:58:56
Subjects: Born in Harper County, Oklahoma; moved to Oklahoma City in 1921; studied engineering at the University of Oklahoma after high school; worked for Wiley Post; project engineer for WPA; 9th Infantry Division; Carolina Maneuvers; Casa Blanca; Algeria; S-3 job with 34th Artillery; Kasserine Pass; Messina; Utah Beach on June 10, 1944; Pentagon; left military in February 1946
Additional Material: one CD containing a 148 page memoir
EL-VOH-WWII- 877 Interviewee: Phillip Austin; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 26, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:15
Subjects: Childhood in Lockesburg, Arkansas; helped on family farm; studied agriculture at University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff; drafted in February 1945; basic training in Fort Lewis, Washington; Inchon, Korea; discharged December 1946
EL-VOH-WWII- 878 Interviewee: Robert Barton; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: April 24, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:50:15
Subjects: Born in Oiltown, Oklahoma; working on family farm during the Depression; drafted in 1942; basic training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia; shipped out to England; 12th Armored Infantry; went into Germany; Battle of the Bulge; dislike French people; wounded making way to Rhine River; discharge in 1946
EL-VOH-WWII- 879 Interviewee: Ray Brantley; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 24, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:47:22
Subjects: Growing up on Oklahoma City; graduated from high school in 1945; scrap metal drives; joined the Marines in 1945; boot camp in San Diego; Okinawa; border patrol in Germany
EL-VOH-WWII- 880 Interviewee: Mamie Dixon; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 26, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:31:22
Subjects: Growing up on Coweta, Oklahoma; attended Eufaula Boarding School; Haskell Institute near Lawrence, Kansas; trained as a nurse’s aide at Konawa Indian Hospital; joined the Army in 1943; basic training at Monticello, Arkansas; stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas; discharged in 1946
EL-VOH-WWII- 881 Interviewee: Calvin V. Shahan; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 26, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:31:22
Subjects: Born in Green Forest, Arkansas; helping on the family farm; joined the Marines; San Diego; Guam; assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 21st Regiment, 3rd Marin Division; Iwo Jima; Higgins Boat; preparing for invasion of Japan; discharged March 1946; attended College of the Ozarks after the war
EL-VOH-WWII- 882 Interviewee: Nell Farrcloth; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 26, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:31:22
Subjects: Born in Mayes County, Oklahoma; attended schools in Chilocco, Oklahoma; graduated from high school in 1938; joined Women’s Army Corps in May 1943; basic training at George Army Air Field in Lawrenceville, Illinois; assigned to weather station in Alliance, Nebraska
EL-VOH-WWII- 883 Interviewee: Leonard Ridenhour; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 5, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:42:07
Subjects: Childhood in Rogers County, Oklahoma; helping on the family farm; left high school in 1943 to join the Navy; worked in a sheet metal shop; gunnery school in San Diego; 20 mm gun; Guam; discharged March 1946; Parker Drilling Company; Boeing Aircraft in Tulsa
EL-VOH-WWII- 884 Interviewee: Charley Hicks; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: October 1, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:42:07
Subjects: Growing up in Wagoner, Oklahoma; joined the National Guard in 1948; 279th Infantry; summer camp in fort Sill, Oklahoma; Korea; Chinese soldiers; visited Korea in 2003
EL-VOH-WWII- 885 Interviewee: Mack Watkins; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 5, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:08:22
Subjects: Born in Zafra, Oklahoma; attended school in Hatfield, Arkansas; left school after 8th grade; worked on farm and a sawmill; enlisted in the Army in February 1942; basic training at Camp Pike; training in international Morse Code; Guam; Okinawa Philippines; discharged in 1947
EL-VOH-WWII- 886 Interviewee: Russell Daniels; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 19, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:45:21
Subjects: Born in Westville, Oklahoma; farther worked for Frisco Railroad; left school in the 5th grade; worked on farm; joined the Navy in 1944; Naval Training Center in San Diego; served on USS James O’Hara; Eniwetok; Guadalcanal; Leyte; Iwo Jima; Kamikaze hits ship
EL-VOH-WWII- 887 Interviewee: Henry Brown; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: May 29, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:54:56
Subjects: Growing up in Rentiesville, Oklahoma; helped on family farm; attended New Hope High School; went into the Navy in 1943; boot camp at Treasure Island in San Francisco; Seattle, Washington; USS Menifee; transported troops to Saipan, Guam and New Guinea; Manila; preparing for invasion of Japan; discharged in January 1946; worked in VA hopial after the war
EL-VOH-WWII- 888 Interviewee: Lee Stroud; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 14, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:28:17
Subjects: Born in Huntsville, Arkansas; grew up on family farm; enlisted in Army in January 1943; basic training at Camp Robinson, Arkansas; Burma Road; discharged in January 1946
EL-VOH-WWII- 889 Interviewee: Marion Ross; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 23, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:30:43
Subjects: Born in Amarillo, Texas; father worked for the Rock Island Railroad; joined the Navy in March 1943; boot camp in San Diego; machinist mate on USS Almaack; Mariana Island; Saipan; Guam; Philippines; discharged in April 1946; moved to Bartlesville in 1948
EL-VOH-WWII- 890 Interviewee: Plaze Crow; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: June 19, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:35:14
Subjects: Born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas; mother related to Pretty Boy Floyd; did not graduate from high school; father did mill work; joined Navy in 1945; boot camp in San Diego; fuel tanker USS Enoree; discharged in 1946
EL-VOH-WWII- 891 Interviewee: William Reynolds; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 15, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:04
Subjects: Born in Arkansas; went to school in Oklahoma; left school; father was a mail carrier; father beat him with a strap; beat his father; brother killed in Battle of the Bulge; attack on Pearl Harbor; basic training in Abilene, Texas; 78th Infantry Regiment; German civilians; discharged December 17, 1945
EL-VOH-WWII- 892 Interviewee: William D. McGuire; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 10, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:48:04
Subjects: Born in Dustin, Oklahoma; left school in 7th grade; worked on family farm picking cotton; drafted in 1943 basic training at Camp Barkeley, Texas; medic with165th Station Hospital; Philippines; set up hospital tents; Okinawa; preparing for invasion of Japan; discharged in 1946; earned two Bronze Stars
EL-VOH-WWII- 893 Interviewee: Rodney James; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: July 17, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:41:43
Subjects: Growing up near Hot Springs, Arkansas; helping on family farm; drafted in 1942; requested the Army Air Corps; basic training at Sheppard Field, Texas; gunnery school; England; 9th Bomb Group; left waist ginner on B-17; missions over Germany; reserves after the war ended; mechanic on F-84 in Korea
EL-VOH-WWII- 894 Interviewee: James Joseph Kuntz; Tulsa, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 18, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 1:02:02
Subjects: Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma; graduated from high school in 1941; wired amplifiers seismograph truck at Engineering Laboratories; drafted the Army in April 1944; North Africa; Karachi, sent to British base in Ceylon; natives fishing in Ceylon; basic training in Camp Crowder, Missouri; teletype repair; visit to pyramids in Egypt; Calcutta; Saigon; Philippines at end of war; discharged May 1945; reserves after war
Additional Material: Copy of discharge papers; handwritten record of recollection of places where he served; six B&W photos of Kuntz taken at various places where he served
EL-VOH-WWII- 895 Interviewee: Norman White; Claremore, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: September 18, 2015 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:44:35
Subjects: Born in rural Cassville, Missouri; graduated from high school in 1938; helped on family farm; moved to Los Angeles to work for Douglas Aircraft Company; drafted in 1944; blackouts on west coast after attack on Pearl Harbor; basic training at Camp Hood, Texas; sent overseas in January 1945; 69th Infantry Division in Belgium; Remscheid, Germany; crossed the Rhine River on pontoon bridge; met the Russian at Torgau; discharge July 5, 1946
EL-VOH-WWII- 896 Interviewee: Romeo Matta; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Joe Todd Date of Interview: August 5, 2014 Format: 8mm with DVD reference copy TRT: 0:44:35
Subjects: Born in San Nicolas Hidalgo, Mexico; family moved to Houston when he was four years old; lived with grandmother after his father died; graduated from Sam Houston High School in 1943; scrap metal drives; crabbing in the Houston Ship Channel; bartending in Galveston; joined the Army in July 1943; basic training in Fort Knox, Kentucky; gunnery school; M-4 tank; sworn as United States citizen; left for Europe March 1944; Bath, England; landed on Omaha Beach on June 7, 1944; 2nd Armored Division; hedgerow fighting; dozer tanks; German rocket fire; Battle of St. Lo; push through France and Belgium; tanks ran out of gas; Siegfried Line; Holland; Battle of the Bulge; Tiger Tanks; 2nd Panzer Division; crossed the Elbe River; stopped before Berlin; unit served as honor guard for the Big Three Conference; left for home from Marseilles, France; discharged December 1945; studied engineering at University of Houston after the war; moved to Tulsa in 1950 to work for The Refinery Engineering Company; moved to Bartlesville in 1960; Phillips Petroleum; retired in 1985
Additional Material: Copy of a handwritten memoir of Christmas 1944
EL-VOH-WWII-897 Interviewee: Duane Marquis; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Robert Barnes Date of Interview: February 21, 2008 Format: VHS tape [tape does not track properly] TRT: 0:53:47
Subjects: Navy; Boot Camp – Great Lakes, Illinois; Radio; Radar; USS Tutuila; China
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-898 Interviewee: Adrian D. Osborne; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Nathan Miller Date of Interview: February 17, 2007 Format: VHS tape TRT: 0:28:29
Subjects: Army; Basic Training – Camp McCall; 187th Regiment, 11th Airborne Division; New Guinea; Leyte Gulf; Philippines; Los Banos
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-899 Interviewee: Keith Newby; Bartlesville, Oklahoma Interviewer: Laura Newby Date of Interview: February 2, 2007 Format: VHS tape TRT: 0:25:10
Subjects: Family background, the Great Depression; farming during World War II.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-900 Interviewee: Lawrence R. Ross; Marlow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Laura E. Kunc Date of Interview: November 23, 2006 Format: VHS tape TRT: 0:19:29
Subjects: Family background, service in the U. S. Merchant Marines.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-901 Interviewee: Richard Knoblock; Marlow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Roxanne Lindgren Date of Interview: February 23, 2007 Format: VHS tape TRT: 0:14:27
Subjects: Family background, service in the Army in Europe.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-902 Interviewee: Harvey W. Thompson; Marlow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Lenea Patterson Date of Interview: February 27, 2007 Format: VHS tape TRT: 0:21:17
Subjects: Family background, drafted into Army Air Corps, all of his service was stateside.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.
EL-VOH-WWII-903 Interviewee: Mitsuye Hamada; Marlow, Oklahoma Interviewer: Autumn Cranor Date of Interview: February 25, 2008 Format: DVD TRT: 0:13:22
Subjects: Father’s family move to the U.S. from Japan, family’s relocation to Manzanar in California, her birth and first three years in the camp, rebuilding their lives after leaving the camp.
This interview was conducted as part of the Harold and Mildred Todd Scholarship.