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Oral History Interview with Billy Drawe, June 13, 2000

Interview with dairyman and Marine Corps veteran Billy Drawe. The interview includes Drawe's personal experiences about the Pacific Theater during World War II, enlistment and boot camp, tank training, invading Guam, coming under Japanese mortar fire on Guam, invading Iwo Jima, hauling supplies ashore to the infantry on Iwo Jima, and returning to the states for training in the V-12 Program.

Date: June 13, 2000

Creator: Alexander, William J. & Drawe, Billy

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with William E. Cooper, September 7, 1999

Interview with business executive and Army Air Forces veteran William E. Cooper. The interview includes Cooper's personal experiences about being a B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theater, pre-flight and flight training, various assignments, and dropping supplies by parachute to prisoners-of-war. Cooper also talks about living on Guam, mechanical weaknesses of the B-29, his descriptions of Nagasaki and Hiroshima from the air after the dropping of the atomic bombs, his disappointment with not being ab… more

Date: September 7, 1999

Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Cooper, William E.