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OH 1716

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeCOMPERE, Dr. Dolphus E. III (b. 1916)
Military ServiceU.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 1716
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionFor the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. World War II veteran. Childhood in Dallas, Texas, medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Dallas, and internship at the University of Michigan prior to enlistment in the Army Air Corp as a surgeon with the Third Air Commando Group. Experiences in the Philippines providing medicinal care to military personnel and local civilians, and reunion with a medical school classmate who was interred as a POW at Cabanatuan. Post-war medical career in Fort Worth, Texas, and experience returning a war souvenir, a Japanese ceremonial sword, to its ancestral family.
Interviewer(s)Ben Hegi
Physical Description82 pp.
Terms of UseOpen

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