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Participants in the Veterans Oral History Project

This list of participants in the World War II Veterans Oral History Project at The University of Memphis is current as of 13 June 2006.

If you are a veteran of that war and wish to be interviewed, please go to the project’s main page for a description of the project and contact information.


Veteran’s name and branch of service/home front
Linzy Albert, Army
Norris Almon, Army
Dr. William Andrews, Army Medical Corps
Robert A. Armistead, Air Force - Member of the Flying Tigers
Edith Ayres, Army - WAC
Walter Baker, 8th Air Force
Henry Bartosch, Army Air and Air Force
Tom Batchelor, Medical Corps
L. M. Bates
John "Jack" Beasley
Oscar Billingsly
Norman Blackley
Irvin Bogatin, US Army Counterintelligence
Henry L. Boyd, Sr., Pilot
Martha Bunn
Mike Burbage, Navy
Dr. Herman Butts
Doyle Camp, Navy
Martha McKenzie Carpenter, Army Southeast Training Command (WAAC)
Larry Carter
Stanton Caudle, Pearl Harbor Survivors Assn
Benny Clark
William Clayton, Navy
Cliff Cochran
Margaret Conway
Charles E. Corbett, Navy - On battleship when treaty was signed at Tokyo Bay
Sam Cox, Sr.
Vernon Creasy
James F. Cunningham
Jim Cunningham, Marine Corps - Part of The Lost Company of 1943-44
Howard Dallas, Air Force
Merrill Dan, Army - Foreign Observer
Konnie Daniel, Lived in Germany - Member of Hitler Youth
Tom Daniels, Navy
David A. Davidson
Bill Jim Davis, Navy
Joe Davis
John Dorian
Ambrose "Bud" Dudley
Mr. Durham, US Veteran - Guard Concentration Camp
Alfred Leon Edmiston, Marines
Col. John W. "Bill" Espey
Henry H. Farmer
Sid Farnsworth, Jr.
Glenn Faulk, USS Chicago
David Field
Ashley William Fisher, III, Marines
Eugene Stone Forrester, 8th Air Force
Lonnie Franklin
George A. Fulghum, Jr.
Ernest T. Fuller, Army POW (France)
William O. Galyean
Rico Gatti
Jim Gooch
Marjorie Solomon Gradus, Army
James Gravatti, Army Medical Corps
Dorothy Graves, WAVES
Edward I. Grinder, Navy
Leon H. Grove, Army
Alvin Haase, Lives in WI now
Herbert Hammer
Charles W. Hodge
William Holliday, 84th Division - Battle of the Bulge
Roger Haley Howard
Ann J. Huckeba
James C. Johnson, Navy
James R. Johnson
Lester Johnson, Navy
William J. Johnson, Army Air Corps
Frank Katona, Army
Jimmy Keep
James G. Kern
Dorothy Kirby-Wills, Red Cross - Memphis
Hollis Knox, Navy
William Lang
Howard G. Lee, Pearl Harbor Survivors Assn
George Morison Livers, Army Air Corps
John W. Looney
William "Bill" Lotterhos, Army
William Mallette, Marines
Henry Grady Marlow, Jr., Pearl Harbor Survivors Assn
William H. Marsh, Navy
W. H. Matthews, Navy
Clyde May, Navy
John William McAfee, Sr., Navy
John McKee
J.D. McWhirter, Army
Erich Merrill
Elizabeth Merritt, Wife of Soldier
Albert D. Miller, Member of the Tuskegee Airmen, Cream of the Manhood Crop
Caroletta Gaertner Mitchell, Navy Air Group Traning Command
Norris Mitchell, US Army Amphibious Tank Division
Raymond F. Montgomery
Roy Moody
John C. Moore, Army
Robert L. Morris
Philip Moss, Sr,. 5th Air Force
Ed Murley, Army
James Muskelley, POW
Irving Nathanson
Bob Nichols
James C. Nichols, Navy
Melvin Nichols
Jim O’Brien, American Legion Post 250
Larry O’Shaughnessy
Glenn A. Owens, Navy
Kenneth Parker, 8th Air Force - POW in Germany
Jim Perper
Frank Poague, Navy
Elmo Randolph
John Rast
John Rayburn, Quartermaster Corps
Willie Lee Reed, Army Quartermaster Corps
Ralph G. Reinagel, Army
Estelle Roper
Vincent Rowell
Charles H. Ryans
Albert Sackett
Nicholas Sclvaggio
Allen Seay
Henry "Clay" Shelton
James A. Shelton, Army
Lee Shepherd
David Silberberg, Army
Forest Lee Simpson, Air Force
Harry W. Simpson, Navy
Trudell Smith, Army
Warren Smith
James W. Smith, Jr., Navy
E. W. Spencer
Mr. Spicko
James Patrick Stanley
R. L. Stephens
Theodore Stovall Navy
Wilhelm Streicher (Striker)
Shepherd Tate, Navy Counterintelligence
James D. Tippen, Army
Forrest Tubbs
Paul Turpin, Navy
William Vines, Army
Jack Weakley
Dr. Don Webb, US Army
Judge Harry W. Wellford
Harris B. Wilhoite, Army Air Corps
John T. Wilkinson, Jr.
Arthur David Williamson, Navy
Garret Williamson
Jack Williamson, Navy
Wilma Wilsford
Howell "Ross" Witherspoon, Army Air and Air Force - POW
Richard Wood, Army Air Corps
George R. Wright, Army Field Artillery



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