Oral History Interview with William Smeltzer, August 3, 1996
Description:
Interview with William Smeltzer, a Army WWII veteran and Navy contractor from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Smeltzer discusses quitting high school and moving to California in 1940, experiences working at Mare and Pearl Harbor Navy Yards as a civilian contractor before and after the start of the war, the raising of the sunken USS Oklahoma (BB-37), being drafted into the Army and infantry training, assignment to the 45th Infantry Division and participating in the drive into Germany, the end of the…
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Date:
August 3, 1996
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Smeltzer, William
Partner:
UNT Oral History Program