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Oral History Interview with Charles K. Hake, August 9, 2000

Description: Interview with Charles K. Hake, businessman, builder, and Army veteran (Battery A, 386th Field Artillery Battalion, 104th Infantry Division), concerning his experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-war youth in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; effects of the Great Depression; employment at the York Ice Machine Company and making battleship gun turrets; induction into the Army, December, 1942; basic training, Camp Adair, Oregon, with the 104th Infantry Division, 1942-43; artillery… more
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Date: August 9, 2000
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hake, Charles K.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Alfred J. Marcello, Jr., August 7, 2000

Description: Interview with Alfred J. Marcello, Jr., educator, concerning his experiences as a young teenager on the home front in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, during World War II. His family's economic situation during the Great Depression; teenage recreational activities before World War II; the town's reaction to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor; the establishment of an armed guard at the entrances to the Wrightsville-Columbia bridge, which spanned the Susquehanna River; Council of National Defense; es… more
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Date: August 7, 2000
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Marcello, Alfred J., Jr.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with James G. Turner, August 7, 1999

Description: Transcript of an interview with James G. Turner, Marine Corps veteran (Regimental Headquarters Company, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division), concerning his experiences on Saipan in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Turner discusses his 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 the invasion of Saipan; the amphibious landings on Saipan, June 15, 194… more
Date: August 7, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, James G.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with John R. Leber, January 15, 1999

Description: Interview with John R. Leber, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, who flew with the 317th Troop Carrier Squadron in the China-Burma-India Theater. Leber discusses enlisting in the Air Corps, training as an aircraft mechanic and becoming a crew chief, the C-46 and the C-47, deployment to India, flying over the Himalayas, living conditions, and continued service postwar. In appendix are handwritten letters of Leber from his time overseas.
Date: January 15, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Leber, John R.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with William H. Haugh, January 12, 1999

Description: Interview with William H. Haugh, a Army WWII veteran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Haugh discusses growing up in Wrightsville, getting his own farm, the wartime economy, being drafted into the Army, becoming a machine gunner in the 35th Infantry Division, arrival in Metz and advancing to the Battle of the Bulge, artillery, experiences in combat, the Rhineland Campaign, the Ruhr Valley, being wounded, the German surrender and the Army of Occupation, reflections on combat, and returning to civ… more
Date: January 12, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Haugh, William H.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Charles Harmon, October 12, 1998

Description: Interview with Charles Harmon, factory worker, concerning his experiences as a civilian defense worker at Philadelphia Gear Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War II. Growing up in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; effect of the Great Depression on family life; attendance at Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades, Media, Pennsylvania for training as a patternmaker; employment at Philadelphia Gear Works as a layout man and machinist; conversion from peacetime to wartime production dur… more
Date: October 12, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Harmon, Charles
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Pauline Haugh Leber, October 9, 1998

Description: Interview with Pauline Haugh Leber, factory worker, concerning her experiences growing up in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania and employment at York Safe and Lock Company during World War II. Description of family farm on outskirts of Wrightsville; comments on dairy farming; attendance at Wrightsville High School; description of early work as a seamer at Standard Garment; employment at Hollis Manufacturing doing piecework; description of workday as a pieceworker; influence of rationing during World W… more
Date: October 9, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Leber, Pauline Haugh
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Alfred P. Forry, August 12, 1998

Description: Interview with Alfred P. Forry, foundry worker and Army veteran (362nd Battalion, 91st Infantry Division), concerning his experiences as a member of the 91st Infantry Division in the Italian Campaign during World War II. Induction into the Army, 1943; basic training at Fort Hood; advanced training in the California mountains; troopship to Oran and then to Naples; assignment as a replacement to the 362nd Battalion, 91st Infantry Division; small unit infantry combat tactics; designation as the sq… more
Date: August 12, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Forry, Alfred P.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with William Crumbling, August 7, 1998

Description: Interview with William H. Crumbling, truck driver and Army veteran (Troop A, 25th Mechanized Cavalry), concerning his experiences in the Army of Occupation in Germany, 1945-47. Assignment to Regensburg; patrols to outlying villages; relations with former SS troops; comments about black market activities; social life; physical destruction of Nazi symbols and insignia; visit to Dachau; relations between American troops and civilians; visit to Adolph Hitler's hunting lodge in the Black Forest.
Date: August 7, 1998
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crumbling, William H.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Kenneth Poff, August 10, 1997

Description: Interview with Kenneth Poff, a Army WWII veteran from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, who served with the 1913th Engineer Aviation Battalion. Poff discusses his early life, being drafted and training, shipping out to Townsville, Australia, and landing on New Guinea, fighting attached to the 1st Marine Division for the Cape Gloucester and Hollandia campaigns, constructing and maintaining an airstrip, the Lingayan Gulf campaign in the Philippines, the atomic bomb and VJ-Day, and returning home.
Date: August 10, 1997
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Poff, Kenneth
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Donald M. Smith, August 12, 1996

Description: Interview with Donald M. Smith, businessman, concerning his experiences as the head of Riverside Foundry, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Foundry business during the Great Depression; thoughts about Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; conversion from peacetime to wartime production during World War II; obtaining contracts to produce hand grenades and rifle grenades; problems in procuring pig iron and other scarce materials; employment of women; technological innovations in … more
Date: August 12, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Smith, Donald M.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Evelyn Myers McCune, August 4, 1996

Description: Transcript of an interview with Evelyn Myers McCune, nurse, concerning her experiences as a civilian secretary with the State Department in Washington, D.C., before the and during World War II. McCune discusses her educational background; decision to take a position with the State Department in early 1941; adjustments in moving from a town of 2,500 people to the nation's capitol; personal observations of the activities at the Japanese embassy on December 7, 1941; wartime living conditions, rati… more
Date: August 4, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & McCune, Evelyn Myers, 1918-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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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… more
Date: August 3, 1996
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Smeltzer, William
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Robert Crist, May 26,1993

Description: Interview with Robert Crist from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression as well as his childhood and his experiences leading up to joining the CCC. Crist worked at a camp in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania (Company 1377).
Date: May 26, 1993
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Crist, Robert
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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