History Talks

History Talk with Marian Wynn, Rosie the Riveter - Pipe Welder at Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California. Millions of America's Greatest Generation Women joined the war production to ensure that the industry on the homefront could support the war in both the European and Pacific. Original Air Date: October 26, 2021

History Talk with Marian Sousa, Rosie the Riveter - Draftswoman at Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California. Millions of America's Greatest Generation Women joined the war production to ensure that the industry on the homefront could support the war in both the European and Pacific. Original Air Date: September 28, 2020 Recorded in Cooperation with Ralph Krauss of Edutainment Learning

Approximately 20,000 African Americans would be trained to be United States Marines from 1942 to 1949. All would be trained in North Carolina at Montford Point, a segregated camp of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. The Marines of Montford would prove themselves time and time again on the World War II battlefronts of the Pacific. From Peleliu to Iwo Jima, even at the Battle of Okinawa. Features the National Montford Point Marines Association, and their President Dr. James T. Averhart Jr and Public Relations Officer Joseph H. Geeter III Want to watch more PHP History Talks visit https://www.pacifichistoricparks.org/history-talks #WorldWarII #PacificHistoricParks #PearlHarborNationalMemorial #USSArizonaMemorial #PHNM #PHPHistoryTalks #MontfordPoint #MontfordPointMarines #USMC Interview and presentation conducted by Pacific Historic Parks. Original Air Date: 4/5/2022

History Talk on Kalaupapa featuring Sister Alicia and Sister Barbara Jean. This talk dives into the treatment of the people living with leprosy in Hawaii during the mid-1800’s, who were Damien De Veuster and Marianne Cope, where are Kalawao and Kalaupapa, and leprosy in the world today. Original Air Date: May 21, 2020 Recorded in Cooperation with Ralph Krauss of Edutainment Learning

Take inside look into the specialized weapons developed specifically for the attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn how the midget submarines, torpedos, and aerial bombs used by the Japanese Imperial Navy played an important role in the success of their mission. Daniel A. Martinez entered the National Park Service as a summer seasonal park ranger at Little Bighorn National Battlefield in 1979 and worked there during college at California State University Dominguez Hills until 1985. He moved to Hawaii to take a permanent Interpretive Park Ranger position at the USS Arizona Memorial and became an Interpretive Specialist conducting training and historical research. In 2008, he became the Chief Historian. He has collected archives and records on Pearl Harbor and interviewed over 250 Pearl Harbor eyewitnesses and World War II veterans. He is the author and lecturer on numerous subjects of American history. He was also the host of “Unsolved History”, a program for the Discovery Channel for three years. Original Air Date 5/19/2020 Recorded in Cooperation with Ralph Krauss of Edutainment Learning

About Naoko Okimoto Naoko Okimoto, who was raised in Hiroshima and worked for around 10 years at the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation from 2003 to 2005 and 2008 to 2016, became an A-bomb Legacy Successor in 2018 after completing a three-year training program offered by Hiroshima City Hall. She will be sharing the experiences of Mr. Mutsuhiko Segoshi, who was exposed to the Atomic bombing in Hiroshima, when he was in the fifth grade. Mutsuhiko Segoshi is a first-generation atomic bomb survivor who endured severe beatings and bullying at his evacuation site on the outskirts of Hiroshima. A week after returning to central Hiroshima to treat his deteriorating health, he was exposed to the atomic bomb. Naoko is currently based in the Philippines and studied at the University for Peace in Costa Rica from 2018 to 2019. Aside from presenting this story at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum when she came back to Hiroshima for vacation a few times a year, she presented Mr. Segoshi’s experiences three times in Costa Rica in 2019. Original Air Date: 4/23/2020 Recorded in cooperation with Ralph Krauss of Edutainment Learning

Jay oversees the planning and implementation of visitor and educational programs at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. He is directly involved with operations at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, which sees an average of 1.6 million visitors a year. He works closely with the Pearl Harbor Historic Sites partners and the U.S. Navy. Previously, Jay served as the Superintendent of the Sicily-Rome American Cemetary in Nettuno, Italy, and before that, as Assistant Superintendent at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetary near Verdun, France. This experience came after serving four years as an active duty armor officer in the U.S. Army. Original Air Date 4/28/2020 Recorded in cooperation with Ralph Kraus of Edutainment Learning

From a farm in Illinois to Hawaii, Guadalcanal, Korea, and Vietnam, Pearl Harbor Survivor Sterling Cale’s military career has taken him around the world and back again. With a front-row view of the attack, Cale bravely rescued men from the burning water of Pearl Harbor and collected bodies from the wreckage of the USS Arizona. His story is one of service, sacrifice and what it means to be a true American. Sterling Cale, a Pearl Harbor survivor and now 99 years of age was assigned to the U.S Naval Hospital at “C” Landing, Pearl Harbor in Hawai’i, and was at the shipyard dispensary during the attack on December 7, 1941. Sterling retired with 57 years of Government service in March 2005. Shortly after his retirement, he started volunteering at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial to share what he witnessed and endured with visitors from around the world. Original Recording Date 4/16/2020 Recorded in cooperation with Ralph Kraus of Edutainment Learning

Lou Conter was born in Wisconsin in 1921. He joined the Navy in 1939 and went to boot camp in San Diego before he was assigned to the USS Arizona in 1940. On December 7, 1941, Lou was aboard the Arizona when the explosion occurred during the attack. As one of the 335 survivors of the ship, Lou went on to become a pilot in the famous “Black Cat” squadron which patrolled the waters in the south Pacific and rescued downed pilots and Australian coast watchers, many of them at night flying with no lights. He was shot down twice, once ending up swimming with his crew while sharks encircled. After the war, he became an intelligence officer, flew combat missions in Korea and created the Navy’s first SERE program (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) of which many of the tactics are still used today. Original Recording date 5/12/2020 Recorded in cooperation with Ralph Kraus of Edutainment Learning

ABOUT DONNA VOJVODICH Donna Vojvodich first learned about the United States Coast Guard Women’s Reserve (“SPARS”) in 2019 while serving as an Arlington Lady at Coast Guard funerals. To learn more about these patriotic women who served during World War II, she located SPARS veterans and conducted oral histories to highlight their roles. Her posts about Coast Guard women in the World Wars are published under The Long Blue Line section of the Coast Guard’s website. SUMMARY Elizabeth Ayer was washing her hair when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The United States was thrust into war, but lacked enough men to fight the battles on land and sea. Elizabeth and other women joined the Coast Guard, sending the men manning the desks off to ships. What really happened when the men were away? This presentation is about the SPARS, the women who contributed to the Allied victory by filling the shoreside jobs. Want to watch more PHP History Talks visit https://www.pacifichistoricparks.org/... #WorldWarII #PacificHistoricParks #WomenOfWWII #uscg #coastguard #TheGreatestGeneration #SPARS

The Chamorros of Guam were not totally absent from their own liberation from hostile Japanese forces at the end of World War II. One of the more significant ways they brought about their own liberation was through the Guam Combat Patrol, a force of Chamorro young men who searched the dense jungles and forests for Japanese fugitives escaping American capture. It was one way Chamorros remedied two and a half years of unwelcomed occupation.

Pacific Historic Parks History Talks Series is honored to present Jillette Leon Guererro on the topic of the A product of war is the involuntary displacement and resettlement of populations. After WWII, several communities were resettled, and neighborhoods that once existed ceased to exist. This is the story of the Padre Palomo district. It was a thriving community before the war. It was destroyed during the American bombardment before the re-taking of the island. After the war, residents were restricted from resettling there. Today it is referred to as East Agaña and is home to commercial enterprises. Original Air Date: 12/2/2022