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Oral History

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Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0066
as well, and today, and her days in the 1940s as far as playing baseball. What is your name (maiden) first? Zan: Hershey Bev: Hershey? Zan: Yes. Bev: Any relation to Milton Hershey? Zan: No. Bev: Where did you live when you were growing up? Zan: I lived in the southern part of the county at Nine
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Women's Baseball
Esther (Zan) Hershey Reeser played ladies professional ball in the 1940s
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Reeser, Esther Zan
Interviewer
Newton, Beverly
Narrator
Reeser, Esther (Zan)
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
Search Terms
Baseball
Baseball players
Baseball teams
Oral histories
Women athletes
Women baseball players
Place of Interview
LCHS
Object Name
Oral History
Media
Videotape
Length of Interview
00:32:02
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0066
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
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Recording, Audio

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/af8836b0-266d-4bdf-90f1-499153112971
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0031
Date Range
2004/07/30
have the respect of the men, that’s all you need. If you have the respect of anybody you know, you’re never one of the boys, you never try to be. L a n c a s t e r H i s t o r y �Bev: So you went out hunting for deer ? Jessie: Yes! Small game. Bev: So the war ended, you got married. How many kids do
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
World War II veteran and F&M College alumni, Dr. Howard Eckhart
Date Range
2004/07/30
Date of Interview
2004-07-12
Creator
Eckhart, Howard, 1925-2014, interviewee
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Eckhart, Howard
Interviewer
Newton, Beverly
Narrator
Eckhart, Howard, 1925-2014
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
Search Terms
Oral histories
Place of Interview
LCHS
Object Name
Recording, Audio
Media
Videotape
Length of Interview
00:31:24
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0031
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31 00:00:11 Intro of Jesse and Howard Eckhart
31 00:00:22 Jesse was civilian flight instructor (WW II)
31 00:00:33 Jesse's father started first airport in Lancaster
31 00:00:54 First airports were grass fields
31 00:01:07 Jesse's father taught her to fly.
31 00:01:13 Jesse soloed on 16th birthday in 1940
31 00:01:25 She soloed and instructed in single engine aircraft
31 00:01:36 Older sister Helen invited to join WAFS
31 00:01:50 Helen was not interested
31 00:01:51 Jesse invited to be flight instructor at WAF school
31 00:02:09 Jesse stayed home and became a flight instructor
31 00:02:18 Jesse quit college (Penn State) after war started
31 00:02:35 Jesse worked for father in Navy instruction program
31 00:03:02 Training for pilots not unique to Lancaster.
31 00:03:12 Aircraft used: examples N3N, Stearman
31 00:03:23 Training equivalent to private pilots license
31 00:03:34 Restriction on travel. Trainees could not do cross country flights
31 00:03:58 Navy training had five students in a class (all male).
31 00:04:15 Each class lasted five months.
31 00:04:39 Howard joined navy at age 17
31 00:04:46 Had been at F & M the year before.
31 00:04:53 Volunteered for the draft board. Enlistments closed.
31 00:05:06 Went to boot camp in New York state.
31 00:05:24 Went to Treasure Island California
31 00:05:39 Volunteered for submarine duty
31 00:05:43 Went to New London, Connecticut for submarine school.
31 00:06:00 Captain Bill Hazard and Howard were first two people assigned to SS324
31 00:06:06 Went to sea for two week shakedown cruise.
31 00:06:11 Went along eastern coast of U.S. Sub ahead of them was sunk by by Air Force B-25.
31 00:06:22 Proceeded then at night on the surface.
31 00:06:30 Went through Panama Canal to Hawaii then to Subic Bay Phillipines
31 00:06:49 Christmas Day 1944 sub sank first Japanese ship
31 00:06:55 Navy had broken Japanese radio code
31 00:08:40 Had rooms in town. All expenses paid for three weeks.
31 00:08:52 Has pictures of his navy days.
31 00:09:22 Sank ships in bay at capital of Java.
31 00:07:01 Intercepted and sank Japanese troop transport
31 00:07:27 Destroyers depth charged Howard's sub for ten hours.
31 00:07:38 Captain Hazard put a CO2 bottle in a torpedo tube and launched it.
31 00:07:46 Japs followed trail of CO2 bottle and Hazard backed away losing Jap ships
31 00:07:54 Lombk Straits.
31 00:08:27 Had liberty in Australia
31 00:08:34 Received their back pay, and had food not available on sub
31 00:09:37 Smokey Roberts (from Lancaster) took Howard to sinking of SS324 in the 1980s.
31 00:10:07 Howard went to Baltimore. Had to show demolition crew where to place charges.
31 00:10:22 Maryland Department of Fish and Game wanted sub to create reef.
31 00:10:50 Twenty six former crew went on party boat to watch sinking nine miles off coast of Maryland (Ocean City).
31 00:10:58 Howard has a tape of sinking.
31 00:11:12 Crew of sub cried when it sank
31 00:11:27 Howard was a oral surgeon for 38 years
31 00:11:39 Howard and Jesse's son has his practice now.
31 00:11:56 Jesse's father supported her in her flying
31 00:12:12 Jesse and her sisters all had to learn to fly before learning to drive a car.
31 00:12:29 Jesse's dad taught her how to hunt and do other things.
31 00:12:55 Jesse went hunting for deer and small game.
31 00:13:08 Howard and Jesse have three sons.
31 00:13:29 Jesse did fly cross country (ferrying airplanes).
31 00:14:17 Jesse flew whenever there was a free plane at the airport.
31 00:14:32 Flew out to Kansas by herself.
31 00:14:40 Had to come back on train.
31 00:15:00 Sister Helen was also a flight instructor.
31 00:15:25 Youngest sister Carolyn did learn to fly.
31 00:15:50 Stayed in contact. Got mail and pay when sub was in port.
31 00:16:04 Home port was Perth, Australia.
31 00:16:26 Sea captain had brought rabbits to Australia years before.
31 00:16:29 Rabbits had no natural enemies in Australia.
31 00:16:39 Rabbit population so bad that farmers had to bury fences in ground to keep them from crops.
31 00:16:46 Farmers asked sailors to come and shoot rabbits to cut population
31 00:16:50 Sailors used .30 caliber semi-automatic rifle
31 00:16:56 Howard shot sixty rabbits in one day.
31 00:17:00 Did not eat rabbits. Just left them lay.
31 00:17:34 Left service and came back to F & M. Had G.I. Bill
31 00:18:13 Howard was in the reserves.
31 00:18:24 Howard would go to Philadephia Navy Yard once a month.
31 00:18:45 Received orders to go to New London, CT - active duty.
31 00:18:52 Howard applied for a commission. He had been a Chief Petty Officer.
31 00:18:58 Commission approved.
31 00:19:16 Went into Dental Corp
31 00:19:33 Belong to the VFW in Millersville.
31 00:19:41 Did belong to Ephrata American Legion.
31 00:19:48 Has contact with Submarine Veterans of WWII
31 00:20:15 Howard has tapes of days in navy
31 00:20:26 Photographs available to make copies.
31 00:20:41 Jesse also has photos of airport, planes, people.
31 00:20:51 Jesse talks about their sons.
31 00:20:59 Her sons can fly. Taught by Jesse's dad.
31 00:21:06 Michael, oral surgeon in Lancaster, Howie is in insurance, David is in investments around Pottstown.
31 00:21:23 All her sons have their private pilots license. Howard also has a ATP (air transport pilot) license.
31 00:21:38 Howard had flown for Eastern until they went broke.
31 00:21:46 Howard and Jesse have three main ratings.
31 00:21:59 They have had a progression of planes.
31 00:22:19 Did not have a plane for some time. Could not afford $15 hangar fee.
31 00:22:24 Flew brother in laws Tri-Pacer.
31 00:22:38 Had a four seat Comanche.
31 00:23:04 Got a six seat Aztec.
31 00:23:13 Aztec is fully instrumented, with GPS.
31 00:23:34 "Jesse flew with her father in ""tail-draggers""."
31 00:24:16 Jesse reluctantly got rid of Luscombe.
31 00:24:24 Luscombe only had room for a couple of hankerchiefs in baggage compartment.
31 00:24:33 Observation towers during WWII
31 00:25:31 "Closed area of east coast ""Violet Defense area""."
31 00:26:17 Closed area came in about 100 miles from coast.
31 00:26:32 Towers were manned by trained observers. Observers attended a class in aircraft identification.
31 00:26:59 Jesse did see these observers at the airport. They had their own uniforms
31 00:27:24 Jesse's english teacher was one of the observers.
31 00:27:31 He was later principal of McCaskey High School.
31 00:28:04 About ten to twelve instructors at airport.
31 00:28:14 About 25 at Carlisle.
31 00:28:24 Training program ended about three months before end of war.
31 00:28:53 Instructor input into trainees log book affected where they were assigned.
31 00:29:19 What is NMI? No Middle Initial
31 00:29:49 Howard was fortunate to get into subs. Only a few taken. Paid well. Close knit group.
31 00:30:16 Four cooks on sub. Howard got shift that coinsided with baker finishing.
31 00:30:56 Modern subs like plush Pullman car
31 00:31:09 closing.
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