| Completed | borerj15 | 6/27/2017 10:26:54 AM |
| Measured | khazanier | 6/28/2017 2:18:58 PM |
| Staff Checked | khazanier | 6/28/2017 2:19:07 PM |
| Cataloged | libdigital | 1/25/2018 12:35:02 PM |
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| 36954 | OH0006.0.0 | Ira T. Wyche Oral History Interview | 23-Aug-72 | Major General Wyche, commander of the 79th Infantry Division (1942-1945) and Inspector General of the Army (1947-1948), comments briefly on World War II but concentrates primarily on his investigation of the charges brought by newspaper columnist Robert C. Ruark against General John C. H. Lee. Ruark claimed that General Lee misused enlisted men under his command in occupied Italy. Other comments are of a random nature concerning various aspects of his career. | |
| OH0007.0.0 | Henry C. Lauerman Oral History Interview | 14-Dec-72 | Lauerman describes service aboard the submarines USS Tambor (1941-1942), USS Halibut (1942-1943), USS Sealion(1943-1944), and USS Cabrilla (1944-1945) in the Pacific and the Aleutians during World War II. After the war, he served aboard USS Argonaut(1948-1950), a training submarine based at New London, Connecticut, and aboard USS Mount McKinley (1960-1962), an amphibious commandship. Lauerman discusses submarine warfare, unity of a ship's crew, and comparison of the World War II submarine with its modern counterpart. Of particular interest in the interview are techniques used by submarines to find and destroy Japanese ships and to escape Japanese detection, encounters with Russian submarine crews at Dutch Harbor, an incident involving the U.S.S. ERIE in Ecuador's political affairs, the rescue of Australian P.O.W.s, "wolfpacking," and training techniques used in 1948-1950 involving marines being carried on board submarines.
Text already digitized as PID 00010921
https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/10921
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| OH0008.0.0 | Katie Murray Oral History Interview | 23-May-73 | Miss Murray, a missionary to China and Taiwan (1922-1959), recounts her experiences on the mission field. Included are descriptions of China and Chinese people, mission schools, Japanese invasion, refugee work, flight from China, conditions after World War II, attitudes toward foreigners, the breakdown of civil and moral authority, and the communist takeover of China. Particular note is made of idolatry, polygamy, ancestor worship, marriage customs, warlords, mountain tribes in Kwangsi Province, and work in Taiwan after expulsion from the continent.
Text already digitized as PID #00010922 https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/admin/amd.aspx?pid=10922
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| OH0009.0.0 | J. Con Lanier Oral History Interview | 19-Mar-73 | Mr. Lanier, a veteran of World War I and a leading tobacco expert, relates his experiences as a soldier and tobacconist. He discusses his role in drafting the first tobacco production control legislation (1933-1934), efforts to gain support from farmers, introduction of grading systems, development of export markets, tobacco taxes, acreage quotas, and changes in marketing and production methods since 1930. On World War I he elaborates on experiences as a soldier in France and Germany. For related material see Collection #229.
Text already digitized as PID 00010923
https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/10923
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| OH0010.0.0 | John Henderson Turner Oral History Interview | 13-Dec-73 | Main topics of discussion pertaining to World War II submarines are the sinking of the USS Squalus in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1938 due to a faulty valve; problems with the magnetic exploders and the firing pins of torpedoes; tactics of sighting, approaching, and hitting a target; watch duty; use of wolfpacks and of appointed "moving zones" ; and techniques for photographing shorelines. Other interesting subjects included are the building of World War II submarines in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and sending them down the Mississippi River and through the Panama Canal to the South Pacific; a detailed description of the first sinking of a Japanese ship by the USS Sculpin; preparing the USS Boarfish to be turned over to the Turkish Navy in 1948; and congressional pressures put on Captain Turner, when he was working for the office of the Chief of Naval Operations, concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Union of South Africa.
Text already digitized as PID 00010924
https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/10924
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