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Episode Guide to Accompany Ken Burns' Documentary EPISODE GUIDE TO ACCOMPANY KEN BURNS’ DOCUMENTARY “THE WAR” MATERIALS FROM THE NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY’S SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION Ken Burns’ film about World War II concentrates on the cities of Mobile, Alabama; Waterbury, Connecticut; Luverne, Minnesota; and Sacramento, California, but did you know that an excellent resource to learn more about the war is available to you, right here in Nashville? The Veterans History Project materials are an excellent source to further explore World War II history firsthand, from people who were there. To learn more about events described in Ken Burns’ new documentary, visit the Special Collections Division at the Nashville Public Library, downtown. Since 2002, as a local partner of the nationwide Veterans History Project headquartered at the Library of Congress, the Nashville Public Library has been collecting stories and materials about Nashville’s veterans. Items consist of recorded oral histories, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and other materials. These materials are made available to the public through the Special Collections Division at the Main Library, downtown. The materials do not circulate and must be used on-site in the Special Collections Division. The following guide is only a brief overview of some of the individuals who have participated in the Veterans History Project. Please consult the library catalog and search for the title: “Veterans History Project” for more information about library holdings. Some selections from the Veterans History Project can also be accessed through our Digital Collections link from our homepage. Overall, more than 300 persons are represented in the Veterans History Project, and the project includes other wars besides World War II. Most items highlighted in this guide are from the Veterans History Project Collection, though references to other library collections are included as well. The format type is listed in parenthesis following each personal description. See detailed finding aids for more information. To learn more about the individuals highlighted below, or other stories from the Veterans History Project Collection at the Nashville Public Library, please call the Special Collections Division at (615) 862-5782. The following outline uses subjects from Ken Burns’ documentary The War to show connections to materials in the Veterans History Project Collection and other collections at the Nashville Public Library. Episode Guide “The War” Nashville Public Library Page 1 of 25 Overlooked Subjects in World War II History: The Veterans History Project at the Nashville Public Library also has substantial holdings which describe service in the China, Burma, India (CBI) Theater of Operations, particularly in the Army Air Corps, and holdings relating to persons who were in the Merchant Marine during World War II. Women’s involvement in the conflict – both as members of the armed services, as well as civilians on the homefront - are also part of the collection. EPISODE 1 (Dec. 1941-Dec. 1942) Pearl Harbor Cornelia Fort - (Civilian). Fort, a Nashville debutante and flying instructor, was giving a flying lesson near Honolulu, Hawaii, on the morning of 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. She landed safely, though under fire. Fort later died in a mid-air collision in 1943, becoming the first woman pilot to be killed in the line of duty. (Fort Family Papers) Jacqueline Horridge - (Civilian). Horridge was 13 years old and was sick in a military hospital at Hickman Field in Hawaii when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She describes the chaos as her family tries to reach her, and as her father, an Army officer, must leave behind his family in the midst of the bombing to report for duty. She also tells about the shock and confusion in the hospital as wounded soldiers and sailors begin to arrive. (oral history) Richard MacDonald - (Navy). MacDonald was aboard the USS Pyro, an ammunition ship docked at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack in 1941. He recounts that he was too busy to be scared. (oral history) Paul Madden - (Navy). Madden was doing gunnery training at Little Creek, Virginia when Pearl Harbor took place. He tells about his and his classmates’ reactions to hearing the news. (oral history, transcript) Rubin Ratkin - (Navy). Ratkin tells about the astonishment he felt when his ship first sailed into Pearl Harbor in late 1943, and he saw remnants of the devastation from the attack of December 7, 1941. (oral history, transcript) Bataan, Philippines Aaron Clyde Hopper - (Army). Hopper was serving on the Bataan Peninsula when it was overrun by the Japanese. He was captured in the Philippines and later moved to Manchuria, China. There, he endured severe living conditions while working for the Japanese in their machine Episode Guide “The War” Nashville Public Library Page 2 of 25 plants – though he and his fellow prisoners found ways to sabotage their work. (oral history, transcript; memoir) U-boat sightings Yvonne (Cornu) Balls - (Navy). Balls served in the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II and specialized in communications. She provides some details about her communications duties and recalls one incident when she saw smoke from a German submarine that was sinking off the coast. (oral history) John Henry - (Civilian). Henry recounts his service in the Civil Air Patrol during World War II, including spotting an enemy submarine off the Florida coast. (oral history, transcript) Dorothy Richards Rand - (Army). Rand tells about the difficulties she and her shipmates had in crossing the Atlantic Ocean. It took them three attempts to get across; once their ship was grazed by a torpedo from a U- boat. (oral history) Gordon Shivas - (Army Air Corps). After completing basic and advanced training in the Army Air Corps specializing in bomb sight maintenance, bombardier work and navigation, Shivas was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in June 1943. He was then assigned to flying B-25-Gs, patrolling the Caribbean waters looking for German submarines. (oral history, transcript) Guadalcanal Rodney R. Burns - (Marine Corps). Burns served in F Company 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines of the 1st Marine Division and saw action at Guadalcanal. (oral history) Thomas Grady Gallant, Jr. - (Marine Corps). Gallant served in the Marines in the Pacific Theater of Operations. He was among those that made the initial landings on Guadalcanal. (oral history) Robert Allan Leftwich - (Marine Corps). Leftwich was an aviation crew chief on Guadalcanal from September 1942 to February 1943. He tells about the losses his squadron sustained from enemy action. (oral history) EPISODE 2 (Jan. 1943-Dec. 1943) North Africa, Kasserine Pass Episode Guide “The War” Nashville Public Library Page 3 of 25 Alice (Martin) Huffman Bugel - (Army). In 1942, at the age of 25, Bugel landed in Casablanca and performed nursing duties as part of the Army Nurse Corps there for several months. (oral history) Victor Cooley - (Coast Guard). Cooley served aboard the destroyer escort, USS Mosley (DE-321), one of several Navy vessels manned by Coast Guard crews. The USS Mosley served on patrol in the Mediterranean, primarily in the vicinity of Tunisia and French Morocco. Images show life aboard ship, including drills, deck guns, and refueling operations, and there are numerous, mostly unidentified, photographs of crew members. (photographs) Paul Madden - (Navy). Madden was an armed guard aboard a merchant marine ship in North Africa. He was in Alexandria when the Germans took Tobruk and came down to El Alamein. He returned to North Africa for a second tour in Casablanca. He tells about various experiences aboard ships making supply runs from the U.S. to Europe and North Africa as well as supply runs between various North African ports. (oral history, transcript) James H. Neese - (Army). Neese writes home to friends and family about his experiences in the Army infantry serving in Africa and Italy from 1943 to 1945. His letters are supplemented by an oral history interview. (oral history, transcript; letters.) Edward E. O'Connor, Jr. - (Army Air Corps). O’Connor served as a ball turret gunner on the B-24 bomber, "Hubba Hubba," part of the 415th Bombardment Squadron of the 98th Bombardment Group (Heavy). He was stationed in North Africa. Photographs and correspondence tell about his experiences. (photographs, manuscripts.) Morris R. Phelps - (Navy) Phelps tells about the threat from German submarines in the Mediterranean and the method the U.S. fleet would use to target them. (oral history, transcript) Laccie Blevins - (Navy). Blevins served in the naval aviation aboard B-24 bombers. He tells about patrolling for submarines in the Mediterranean. (oral history) Homefront manufacturing, women enter workforce Pearlene Bell - (Civilian). Bell was the first female African American welder at the Jeffboat Shipyard in Jeffersonville, Indiana. She quickly learned her trade and earned the respect of many of her co-workers. Some, however, did not welcome her. She tells of her duties and Episode Guide “The War” Nashville Public Library Page 4 of 25 responsibilities as a welder, and describes both the hostility and support she received from some of the other employees. (oral history) James A. Colin - (Civilian). Colin was exempted from military service because he was working in an industry that directly supported the war effort. He was at Bethlehem Steel in Pennsylvania, which made gun barrels for large artillery pieces used by the Army and Navy. (oral history) Nashville Bridge Company - During World War II, the Nashville Bridge Company refocused its efforts onto building combat vessels and barges for the Army and Navy. (Businesses Ephemera Subject Files) John A. Thoman - (Civilian). Thoman was employed by Vultee Aircraft. He tells about the difficulty he had finding the plant. He also tells about working for Emerson Electric in St. Louis, Missouri and other aspects of homefront conditions. (oral history, transcript) Vultee Aircraft- This Nashville plant opened in 1941 building P-38 Lightning fighters and the Vultee Vengeance dive bombers during World War II.
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