Description
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World War II and in the Army in the Korean War, discusses living conditions on Okinawa during World War II. He tells about mongooses being released on the island in an effort to control the snake population, and about guard duty. He also tells about how the Japanese infiltrated their camp, including coming to movies and getting food. The complete interview, as well as an index, is available in the repository.
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Nashville Public LibraryRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of TennesseeKeywords
- African Americans
- Anecdotes
- Biography
- Campaigns
- Carlew, James, 1927
- Children And War
- Infiltration (Military Science)
- Interviews
- Japan
- Military History
- Military Life
- Mongooses
- Okinawa Island
- Okinawa Island (Japan)
- Participation, African American
- Personal Narratives, American
- Sailors
- Tennessee
- United States
- United States. Navy
- Veterans
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- World War Ii
- World War, 1939 1945