World War II and Korean War veterans oral history interviews
Title
World War II and Korean War veterans oral history interviews
Subject
World War, 1939-1945 -- Iowa -- Oral histories
Korean War, 1950-1953
Description
Video oral history interviews with area men and women who served in World War II. One Korean War veteran is also interviewed. Some interviews may quit abruptly.
Publisher
Buena Vista University
Format
video/mp4
Language
English
Type
Videorecording
Alternative Title
Oral histories of Buena Vista County World War II veterans
Date Created
2010-2011
Collection Items
Sherrill Adams interview with Lindsey Peterson and Jennifer Jacobs
Adams served as an engineer in the Army. After training in Texas, they went to England to learn bridge building and explosives. He entered France 30 days after D-Day, and they experienced gunfire.
Dale Barr interview with Bill Feis and Lindsey Peterson
Barr was drafted into the infantry and was sent to Japan where he saw a lot of devastation near one of the sites where the atomic bomb was dropped. To him, the country smelled like onions. He did reconnaisance but said there was little to see or do…
Bill Biehler interview with Zoey Reisdorf and Bill Feis
Biehler is the only Korean War veteran interviewed. He was an MP working in the motor pool by a happy accident. On the way to Korea, he was able to sit in the co-pilot's seat. He experienced a fast train in Japan, where they did some training.
Dorothy Brashers interview with Bill Feis
Brashears had worked at Look magazine before she entered military service, so she spent her time working in an office. She met her husband, Leroy (also interviewed), while she was on duty in the library. She says that for years neither she nor Leroy…
Leroy Brashears interview with Bill Feis
After he finished basic training in the Navy, Brashears attended torpedo school. He repaired seaplanes in the Mediterranean Sea near Africa. Before that, while being transported by sea, their ship picked up enemy survivors.
Bob Brostad interview with Bill Feis and Jared Gledhill
Brostad was stationed in Oran, North Africa for two years as Army base ordnance and was lucky to live within the officers' club. From there, he was posted to Gray, France for another two years. When Germany surrendered, Brostad thought he might get…
Kenneth Edwards interview with Shelby Peterson and Lindsey Peterson
Edwards was a Navy aviation electrician and served in the South Pacific. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan spared him from having to take part in active combat. He replaced generators on seaplanes and worked on machine gun turrets.
Lloyd Galbraith interview with Shelby Peterson and Stephanie Puhrmann
Galbraith served in the Navy in the South Pacific at the very end of WWII as a storekeeper aboard ship. He sustained a bad non-combat head wound while performing his job and suffered headaches most of his adult life as a result. They were six days…
Harold Geisinger interview with Zoey Reisdorf and Lindsey Peterson
Geisinger served in the European theater, specifically Holland, Germany, and Austria in the Army. He was a mortarman in a weapons platoon. He got sick that winter and postponed going to sick call, but when he did, he realized it saved his life in…
Cliff Glasgow interview with Shelby Peters and Lindsey Peterson
Glasgow served as staff sergeant and supply sergeant for the Army in the South Pacific. They were slated to go to the southernmost island of Japan, but the dropping of the atomic bombs prevented that and they were routed to Saipan instead.