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Tagged with "Pacific Theater"

  • His experiences as a naval officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. New York State Merchant Marine Academy, 1941; assignment to USS Sheridan (APA-51); Tarawa landing, 1943; Marshall Islands landings, 1944; Saipan landing, 1944; assignment…
  • His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to 2nd Marine Division; landings on Gavutu and Tanambogo in Florida Islands; Tarawa landing; Marianas campaign and Tinian landing.
  • His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Melvin during World War II in the Pacific Theater. Marianas invasion; Carolines invasion; Battle of Leyte Gulf; Battle of Surigao Strait; Iwo Jima; Okinawa; Kurile operations and occupation of Japan.
  • Engineer. His experiences aboard the destroyer USS McGowan in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Everyday life aboard ship; Iwo Jima; Okinawa and kamikazes; operations off northern Japan, 1945.
  • Journalist. His experiences as a bureau manager in the Pacific Theater for United Press during World War II. Pearl Harbor attack; military censorship; CINCPAC and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; comments about Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey and General…
  • His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Chub in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1943-44; assignment to the Chub, 1944; his responsibilities as an electrician’s mate; various patrols in the…
  • His experiences as a B-29 bombardier in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Bombing missions from Guam to Japan, 1945; Japanese fighter and flak opposition; fire bombing raids.
  • Scientist, engineer, physicist. His role in the development of the proximity fuze in World War II. Education and technical training; employment with the Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1942; technical aspects of developing the…
  • His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sailfish in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1942; his responsibilities as a motor machinist’s mate; qualification examinations; various patrols off…
  • Podiatrist. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Civilian Pilot Training, the University of Chicago, 1942; pre-flight training, University of Iowa, 1942-43; basic flight training, Livermore, California, 1943; advanced flight…
  • Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15, USS Randolph, USS Noble. His experiences as a PT boat skipper in the North African and European Theaters and various other duties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early naval career, 1941-42; assignment to…
  • His experiences concerning his association with General Roger Ramey, 1937-57. Operations against Rabaul in the Pacific Theater during World War II; atomic bomb tests at Kwajalein and Eniwetok, 1946 (Project CROSSROADS); relationship between Ramey…
  • His experiences while attached to the 4th Marine Division as a medic in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to join the Navy, 1943; Hospital Corps School, San Diego, 1943; assignment to the Fleet Marine Force; Field Medical School,…
  • His experiences on Saipan in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to join the Marine Corps, December 7, 1942; boot camp, Parris Island; formation of the 4th Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California, 1943; preparations on Maui for…
  • Federal prison administrator. His experiences in the Pacific Theater and China during World War II; also his experiences during the Korean War. Service in the peacetime Army, 1933-36; civilian employment, 1936-43; decision to join the Marines, 1943…
  • His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. U. S. Naval Academy, 1934-38; assignment to the carrier USS Yorktown, 1938-39; assignment to the destroyer USS Bainbridge, 1939-41; assignment to Motor Boat Submarine Chaser Squadron 1,…
  • His experiences as a pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in Texas; pre-war flying experience; decision to join the Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1938; flight training, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, 1938-39; Mine…
  • Airline pilot. His experiences as a B-25 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war job experiences; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, November, 30, 1942; basic training, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1943; college preparatory courses,…
  • Attorney. His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His educational background; law school at Drake University and marriage; his pre-war law practice; enlistment in the Army, January, 1942; basic training, Camp Robinson,…
  • His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Phelps during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his subsequent experiences aboard the Phelps in the Pacific and Atlantic Theaters during World War II. His decision to enlist in…
  • Pastor. His experiences as a Navy chaplain in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His early education; Davidson College, 1937-1941; Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, 1941-44; his decision to enlist in the Navy, 1944; chaplaincy…
  • His experiences as a flying boat pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to enlist in the Navy, May, 1942; basic flight training, Naval Air Station, Grand Prairie, Texas, 1942; advanced flight training, Naval Air Station, Corpus…
  • Landscape architect. His experience as a member of PRISIC in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Educational background including graduation from Kansas State University with a degree in landscape architecture; commissioning as a U.S. Navy…
  • North Texas business owner. Remembrances about childhood in Lindsay, St. Joe, and Gainesville, Texas; being drafted into U.S. Air Force; training at various stateside bases and overseas service in China-Burma-India and Pacific theaters as top-gunner…
  • Test pilot, aviation executive, and Deputy Secretary of Defense. Childhood in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Illinois; work as a young man in the oil fields; family’s experience in the Great Depression; matriculation at Kansas University; enrollment in…