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- In a wide-ranging oral history interview, Josephine Boecker discusses her service in the American Red Cross in the South Pacific from September 1943 to September 1946. Boecker says she was contacted by the Red Cross and later called for war service and recalls anticipating being sent to North Africa and being surprised when she found herself on a train bound for the west coast. Boecker talks about activities on board ship during the four week trip to New Guinea, the reception the nurses received from the soldiers when they came ashore and being assigned to the 47th General Hospital near Milne Bay where Red Cross workers staffed recreation programs. She describes camp conditions, sanitation, food, the malaria epidemics, finding activities to keep the troops occupied, and spending her leave in Australia and later following the Army to the Philippines. Boecker says that she was overjoyed when she heard the news of the dropping of the atomic bomb and that the war was over. She says she was later and shipped to Japan to staff a hospital in Tokyo and discusses the destruction she saw and the effects that the U.S. occupation had on Japanese society. Boecker is recorded for the Radcliffe College Library.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Kazuko Aoki talks about going into Hiroshima after the bombing and experiencing black rain. She also discusses her life in Hawaii after the war and volunteering at a hospice.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-02-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Takeo Yamashiro says he does not remember anything about the Hiroshima bombing, but does remember his classmates later dying from Leukemia. Yamashiro also talks about immigrating to Canada and his views on the current proliferation of nuclear arms.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Taihiru Bai, a Korean, says that he was working outside of the city with his familiy when the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima. He also talks about his search for his brother in the aftermath of the bombing, the years of hardship following the war, returning to Korea, being threatened by war in Korea, and finally finding a way to emigrate to Brazil. Bai says that he only recently acquired a Hibakusya Medical Card with the help of Hibakusha association in Brazil. Part two of two parts.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-08-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Toru Uematsu says that he was born in Peru, but went to Japan before the war started to attend. He descries the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing and talks about the Makurazaki Typhoon which hit Japan in September, after the bombings. Uematsu also talks about staying in Hiroshima and Tokyo after the war and finally returning to Peru after Peru had again established diplomatic relations with Japan. He says that he is now the only living survivor of the atomic bombing in Peru and that once there had been four.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-01-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- David Laskey talks about the experiences of his wife Kinuko, who survived the Hiroshima bomb, but has since passed away. He describes how they met, talks about his time with her, and how she was a champion for peace in Vancouver, Canada.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Takeko Okano talks about how she miraculously survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, but lost her father to the blast. She also describes her immigration to San Francisco, CA after the war.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Survivor Mieko Fujiyama says she doesn't remember much about the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and talks mainly about living in Brazil and her activity in the local Japanese Association.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-07-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sachiko Rummel says that she lost her father from radiation related disease after the Hiroshima blast and had a difficult childhood raising her sisters, brother and her sick mother. She explains that she came to Canada after her marriage and only recently started speaking about her experience.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Kazue Kawasaki talks about losing all of her classmates in the Hiroshima bombing while she survived because she was at work in an arms factory. She talks about feeling shame in the aftermath of the bombing because she still had her clothes on while everyone else was naked and burned. She also talks about immigrating to the U.S.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection