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Title: "Bring the boys home" : demobilization of the United States armed forces after World War II
Creator: Sharp, Bert Marvin, 1925-
Date: 1976
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Downfall" : the American plans for the invasion of Japan in World War II
Creator: Vander Linde, Dean M. (Dean Marvin)
Date: 1987
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Alice Joyce Hamblin Haber recalls her service in the U.S. Marine Corps
Creator: Haber, Alice Joyce Hamblin
Date: 2003-08-06
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Alice Joyce Hamblin Haber recalls her service in the U.S. Marine Corps, beginning in 1943 as part of the first cadre of women recruits. Haber talks about basic training at Camp Lejeune, and her problems with military life including dealing with an adversarial commanding officer, an entire platoon sick from dysentery, racial discrimination, and being denied promotion. Haber is interviewed by Kathryn Cavanaugh.

Title: Barbara Jean Brown recalls her service in the United States Naval Women's Reserve (WAVES) program during World War II
Creator: Brown, Barbara Jean
Date: 2002-05-14
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Barbara Jean Brown recalls her service in the United States Naval Women's Reserve (WAVES) program during World War Two. Brown describes enlisting in Lansing, Michigan in September 1943, attending boot camp in Bronx, New York City, receiving training in dictation and shorthand in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and being stationed in Washington, D.C. where she stayed in a barracks across from Arlington Cemetery. She also talks about drilling on the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, seeing...
Show moreBarbara Jean Brown recalls her service in the United States Naval Women's Reserve (WAVES) program during World War Two. Brown describes enlisting in Lansing, Michigan in September 1943, attending boot camp in Bronx, New York City, receiving training in dictation and shorthand in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and being stationed in Washington, D.C. where she stayed in a barracks across from Arlington Cemetery. She also talks about drilling on the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, seeing President Roosevelt's limo, the Capital under blackout restrictions, the return of street lights after V-J Day, and President Roosevelt's funeral procession. Brown is interviewed by Sarah McLennan.
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Title: Cross examination. 1949-03-08
Date: 1949-03-08
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: In this installment of "Cross examination," Dr. Willis Dunbar hosts a discussion of displaced persons with a panel featuring John Reid of the Family Service Center, Rev. Yannis Laupmanitz, attorney Lloyd Faling, and attorney Frank Schmiege. The panel talks about the reasons for the large number of displaced persons in the post war era, the demographic make up of the displaced persons camps, the Displaced Person Act of 1948, proposed amendments to the Act and the effect it has has had on...
Show moreIn this installment of "Cross examination," Dr. Willis Dunbar hosts a discussion of displaced persons with a panel featuring John Reid of the Family Service Center, Rev. Yannis Laupmanitz, attorney Lloyd Faling, and attorney Frank Schmiege. The panel talks about the reasons for the large number of displaced persons in the post war era, the demographic make up of the displaced persons camps, the Displaced Person Act of 1948, proposed amendments to the Act and the effect it has has had on Michigan and the Kalamazoo area.
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Title: Dorothy Dodd Eppstein talks about her service in the Women Air Force Service Pilots
Creator: Eppstein, Dorothy
Date: 2003-08-03
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: In an oral history interview, Dorothy Dodd Eppstein talks about her service in the Women Air Force Service Pilots group (WASP) from 1943 to 1944. Epstein discusses her education, the events which led her to enlist in the U.S. Army, her training on several types of aircraft, the resistance to women pilots among ground crews, social life on bases, and the poor quality of aircraft. She says that after the war, she and her husband built a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that she...
Show moreIn an oral history interview, Dorothy Dodd Eppstein talks about her service in the Women Air Force Service Pilots group (WASP) from 1943 to 1944. Epstein discusses her education, the events which led her to enlist in the U.S. Army, her training on several types of aircraft, the resistance to women pilots among ground crews, social life on bases, and the poor quality of aircraft. She says that after the war, she and her husband built a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that she was active in the anti-Vietnam War and women's movements and enjoyed a twenty year carer with the Veterans Administration. Eppstein is interviewed by Kathryn Cavanaugh.
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Title: Dorothy M. Harrison reads from the memoir of the late Anna Catherine Corbin, who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II
Creator: Corbin, Anna Catherine, 1912-1970
Date: 1983-10
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Dorothy M. Harrison reads from the memoir of the late Anna Catherine Corbin, a Louisville Women's Overseas Service League member, who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Corbin describes deploying as part of the 300th General Hospital unit out of Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, being shipped to North Africa on a converted ocean liner, landing at Bizerte, Tunisia and later being sent to Naples, Italy. Corbin talks about setting up a hospital in a former TB...
Show moreDorothy M. Harrison reads from the memoir of the late Anna Catherine Corbin, a Louisville Women's Overseas Service League member, who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Corbin describes deploying as part of the 300th General Hospital unit out of Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, being shipped to North Africa on a converted ocean liner, landing at Bizerte, Tunisia and later being sent to Naples, Italy. Corbin talks about setting up a hospital in a former TB sanatorium in Naples, treating soldiers with terrible wounds, the enormous number of casualties that came from the Battle of Anzio, working 23 hour shifts and how few patient fatalities the hospital had in the face of such carnage. She says that she was shipped back to the States in August 1945 and was discharged in October 1945.
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Title: Dorothy M. Harrison talks about the life of Mildred Stutzenberger including her service in the American Red Cross during WWII
Creator: Harrison, Dorothy M. (Dorothy McDonald), 1914-2004
Date: 1983
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Dorothy M. Harrison describes the efforts of the Louisville Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League to collect and persevere the histories of its members and then talks about the life of Mildred Stutzenberger who served in the American Red Cross during World War II. Reading from local documents and an interview with Stutzenberger, Harrison talks about Stutzenberger first working in hospitals in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations and then transferring to club work at the Bengal...
Show moreDorothy M. Harrison describes the efforts of the Louisville Unit of the Women's Overseas Service League to collect and persevere the histories of its members and then talks about the life of Mildred Stutzenberger who served in the American Red Cross during World War II. Reading from local documents and an interview with Stutzenberger, Harrison talks about Stutzenberger first working in hospitals in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations and then transferring to club work at the Bengal Air Depot in India. According to Harrison, Stutzenberger also served in Guam and Saipan and with the occupation forces in Japan. Harrison also recounts Stutzenberger's retirement and later death from lung cancer.
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Title: Dr. Frederic R. Wickert discusses his international career as a Professor of Psychology and administrator in the Graduate School of Business Administration at Michigan State University
Creator: Wickert, Frederic R. (Frederic Robinson), 1912-
Date: 2009-05-07
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Wickert talks about his childhood in Chicago, obtaining a Psychology degree from UCLA in 1933 and a graduate degree form the University of Chicago. He shares work experiences and comments on the Hawthorne experiments at Western Electric. Wickert served as a replacement-training officer during World War II and joined the Psychology Department at MSU in 1947. He joined the Management School in 1960 developing organizational psychology programs around the world in cooperation with the State...
Show moreWickert talks about his childhood in Chicago, obtaining a Psychology degree from UCLA in 1933 and a graduate degree form the University of Chicago. He shares work experiences and comments on the Hawthorne experiments at Western Electric. Wickert served as a replacement-training officer during World War II and joined the Psychology Department at MSU in 1947. He joined the Management School in 1960 developing organizational psychology programs around the world in cooperation with the State Department, Peace Corp and MSU international outreach efforts.
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Title: Dunbar commentary. 1945-08-01
Creator: Dunbar, Willis Frederick, 1902-1970
Date: 1945-08-01
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: In a "Dunbar commentary," Dr. Willis Dunbar discusses the skepticism and pessimism which he has seen follow in the wake of World War II. Dunbar argues that many of the problems which seem current and pressing have existed for decades, but that a rise in literacy and education have increased public awareness of them. Dunbar says that the solution for going forward is, through regulation and control, to place the common good before personal gain.

Title: Elsie Hornbacher talks about her overseas service as a teacher in Japan, Italy and Austria after WWII
Creator: Hornbacher, Elsie, 1918-
Date: 1983-04-27
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Elsie Hornbacher talks about her overseas service as a teacher in Japan, Italy and Austria after World War Two. Hornbacher talks about going to Japan in 1949, her ocean voyage to Yokohama, shipboard life, riding out a typhoon, the destruction still evident in postwar Japan, Japanese culture, and how life for the Japanese gradually began to improve. Hornbacher discusses the school where she worked, the curriculum, her students, visiting Hiroshima and about the Korean War and American...
Show moreElsie Hornbacher talks about her overseas service as a teacher in Japan, Italy and Austria after World War Two. Hornbacher talks about going to Japan in 1949, her ocean voyage to Yokohama, shipboard life, riding out a typhoon, the destruction still evident in postwar Japan, Japanese culture, and how life for the Japanese gradually began to improve. Hornbacher discusses the school where she worked, the curriculum, her students, visiting Hiroshima and about the Korean War and American dependents evacuating from Korea to Japan. Hornbacher says that she was reassigned to Naples in 1952, and that the city was unsafe and controlled by the mafia. After "enduring" a year in Italy, she says that she was next sent to Austria which she found both colorful and interesting and was finally sent back to the U.S. in 1954.
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Title: Filmmaker Shinpei Takeda interviews Akiyoshi Tanaka, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945
Creator: Tanaka, Akiyoshi, 1924-
Date: 2006-12-20
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Akiyoshi Tanaka talks about being an army medic and treating survivors in the aftermath of the Nagasaki bombing. He also describes his post-war life as a farmer outside of Rio de Janeiro.

Title: Filmmaker Shinpei Takeda interviews Michikazu Nozaka about his touring of Nagasaki five days after the atomic bombing in 1945
Creator: Nozaka, Michikazu, 1926-
Date: 2008-07-03
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Michikazu Nozaka describes going into Nagasaki five days after the atomic bombing in 1945 and touring the entire city. He also talks about other experiences during the war, including working at a Mitsubishi shipyard. Nozaka descibes immigrating to Bolivia and living and working in San Juan as a farmer.

Title: Former U.S Air Force Major Ruth Rowntree talks about her eleven years of active duty, first in the Women's Army Air Corps and later the U.S. Air Force
Creator: Rowntree, Ruth
Date: 198x
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Former U.S Air Force Major Ruth Rowntree talks about her eleven years of active duty, first in the Women's Army Air Corps and later the U.S. Air Force. Rowntree says that she left her job as a secretary to volunteer when World War II started, was inducted in October 1942, went to Officer Candidate School, and was later assigned to the all male Statistical Control Section. She says that she was in the first group to become regular Air Force officers and later became a Management Analysis...
Show moreFormer U.S Air Force Major Ruth Rowntree talks about her eleven years of active duty, first in the Women's Army Air Corps and later the U.S. Air Force. Rowntree says that she left her job as a secretary to volunteer when World War II started, was inducted in October 1942, went to Officer Candidate School, and was later assigned to the all male Statistical Control Section. She says that she was in the first group to become regular Air Force officers and later became a Management Analysis officer, Wing Comptroller, and finally Assistant Division Comptroller until her discharge in 1953. She also talks about the Berlin airlift, about the complex record keeping duties she had while serving in Wiesbaden, Germany and finally leaving the service to be with her husband.
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Title: Genevieve Luckey discusses serving in the U.S. Marines during World War II
Creator: Luckey, Genevieve M.
Date: 2003-08-05
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Genevieve Luckey discusses serving in the U.S. Marines during World War II. Luckey talks about what motivated her to join, basic training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, her job as a clerk, her living quarters, life on base, her wages, and the dress code. She also talks about meeting her husband, leaving the Marine Corps, V-E Day and V-J Day, and the role of women in the military. Luckey is interviewed by Kathryn Cavanaugh.

Title: German policy concerning attack upon the Western Hemisphere
Creator: Cady, Richard
Date: 1951
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Gertrude A. Lynn talks about her experiences serving in the the U.S. Army Nurse Corps with the 59th Evacuation Hospital during World War II
Creator: Lynn, Gertrude A.
Date: 1989-01-11
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: Gertrude A. Lynn discusses her experiences serving in the the US Army Nurse Corps with the 59th Evacuation Hospital during World War II. Lynn describes graduating from the French Hospital nursing program in San Francisco, joining the Nurse Corps shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the movement of the 59th Evac Hospital from Casa Blanca to Palermo, Naples, Anzio, and later France and Germany. She also discusses meeting her future husband who was an Army captain, her time in Epinal,...
Show moreGertrude A. Lynn discusses her experiences serving in the the US Army Nurse Corps with the 59th Evacuation Hospital during World War II. Lynn describes graduating from the French Hospital nursing program in San Francisco, joining the Nurse Corps shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the movement of the 59th Evac Hospital from Casa Blanca to Palermo, Naples, Anzio, and later France and Germany. She also discusses meeting her future husband who was an Army captain, her time in Epinal, France where the nurses would sled down a hill to reach surgery, and meeting General George Patton and future U.S. Army General William Westmoreland.
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Title: Harold Janetzke and Eileen Janetzke discuss their career at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc
Creator: Janetzke, Harold
Date: 1992-02-26
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Harold Janetzke recalls his career as a timekeeper and engineer at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc. in Lansing, MI, from 1936 to 1975. He describes the 1937 strike that brought the UAW into REO, his move to engineering and attending Michigan State College. He says that the Great Depression devastated the Lansing community, but that World War II brought work back to the plant as REO converted from car to truck production. Janetzke's wife Eileen describes her job as a secretary at...
Show moreHarold Janetzke recalls his career as a timekeeper and engineer at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc. in Lansing, MI, from 1936 to 1975. He describes the 1937 strike that brought the UAW into REO, his move to engineering and attending Michigan State College. He says that the Great Depression devastated the Lansing community, but that World War II brought work back to the plant as REO converted from car to truck production. Janetzke's wife Eileen describes her job as a secretary at REO, meeting and marrying Harold, and working until late into her first pregnancy in 1943. They describe the heart break of the plant's closing in 1975, the loss of the pension and Harold going back to work for a few more years at Motor Wheel. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
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