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- Bob Trout anchors coverage of celebrations around the nation and throughout the world after the announcement of Japan's surrender to end World War Two. Trout details the course of events that led to the Japanese surrender and also describes the simultaneous announcement of the news by the Allied forces. Reporters in various locations describe scenes of celebrations, including: Bill Henry reporting from outside the White House; Charles Shalls reporting from a balcony at the Esther Hotel in Times Square; Webley Edwards reporting from Guam; John Adams reporting from General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Manila; and Larry Lisseur reporting from the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City. Dr. Willis Dunbar and the radio team from WKZO also report on the scenes of celebration in downtown Kalamazoo, with Bob Cammons and Harold Fitzgerald interviewing a number of people in the area. This recording only contains parts 2 and 4 of the coverage.
- Date Issued:
- 1945-08-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Peggy Lechtweis talks about her five years of service in the Army Nurse Corp during World War Two. Lechtweis discusses her induction, basic training, and shipping out to Fiji in the Pacific. She also describes life on base and her responsibilities as chief nurse at the hospital and putting in long shifts in operating rooms. She explains how her unit moved as it followed the advancing U.S. troops across the Pacific to Okinawa and describes the events on VJ-Day, and later treating Allied POWs after their release from Japanese camps. Lechtweis is interviewed by Lois Collet.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-05-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Rose Stornant talks about her service as a legal secretary in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Stornant recalls her training and her different U.S. assignments before being shipped to England in March 1944. She remembers being in Salisbury England watching the gliders and Airborne troop transports heading for Normandy on D-Day and says that she wasn't sent to France until November 1944. Stornant says that she was in Paris during the Battle of the Bulge at the end of 1944 and also talks about Christmas in Paris, the celebrations on V-E Day, Bastille Day, and V-J Day and finally earning enough points to be sent back to the States. She says that she worked in Chicago for a short time after the war, but finally returned to Lansing, MI to reclaim her old job. Stornant is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-07-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Bob Trout anchors coverage of celebrations around the nation and throughout the world after the announcement of Japan's surrender to end World War Two. Trout details the course of events that led to the Japanese surrender and also describes the simultaneous announcement of the news by the Allied forces. Reporters in various locations describe scenes of celebrations, including: Bill Henry reporting from outside the White House; Charles Shalls reporting from a balcony at the Esther Hotel in Times Square; Webley Edwards reporting from Guam; John Adams reporting from General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Manila; and Larry Lisseur reporting from the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City. Dr. Willis Dunbar and the radio team from WKZO also report on the scenes of celebration in downtown Kalamazoo, with Bob Cammons and Harold Fitzgerald interviewing a number of people in the area. This recording only contains parts 2 and 4 of the coverage.
- Date Issued:
- 1945-08-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection