2.) My old dad, MSgt Chas.H.Roberts USMC, was in on an oral-history project through UT-Austin; he had started in Shanghai, guarding the foreign compound as the Japanese were bombing and shelling around SooChow(sp?) Creek. He and his bride Rommie were at Kaneohe Bay on Dec. 7th, just moved into the new base housing.
K-Bay, the new Navy seaplane base (now MCAS), was about ten minutes before Pearl on their route in, so they were hit first. He went on to Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa, and was quite relieved when he heard about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.
If the home islands had been as nasty as the Oki caves, they thought it would have been hard slogging all the way. Served occupation duty for about six months, and met me near my first birthday.
Got to spend a couple reunions with the Kaneohe Klippers, all from around that time, and the stories! They’d jog each other’s memories every time, and we heard a lot of “I haven’t thought about that in thirty years!” The group dynamic can be valuable in collecting oral history, but I’ve noticed that the memories can be - unreliable, shall we say?
1.) They’re hers; even mostly paid-for.
2.) My old dad, MSgt Chas.H.Roberts USMC, was in on an oral-history project through UT-Austin; he had started in Shanghai, guarding the foreign compound as the Japanese were bombing and shelling around SooChow(sp?) Creek. He and his bride Rommie were at Kaneohe Bay on Dec. 7th, just moved into the new base housing.
K-Bay, the new Navy seaplane base (now MCAS), was about ten minutes before Pearl on their route in, so they were hit first. He went on to Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa, and was quite relieved when he heard about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.
If the home islands had been as nasty as the Oki caves, they thought it would have been hard slogging all the way. Served occupation duty for about six months, and met me near my first birthday.
Got to spend a couple reunions with the Kaneohe Klippers, all from around that time, and the stories! They’d jog each other’s memories every time, and we heard a lot of “I haven’t thought about that in thirty years!” The group dynamic can be valuable in collecting oral history, but I’ve noticed that the memories can be - unreliable, shall we say?