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Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: Oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters, World War II veteran

Object ID: OH0001

Date Range: 2004/07/09

built this. And it's still, we built that in 1996 and it's still pretty modern. We have an antenna that folds on the roof, and when you get there the antenna will stand up, you turn the antenna over, shoot the information. Our next version, which I need to find someone that's good on software, because

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: Oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters, World War II veteran

Description: Veteran's oral history interview with Emanuel (Max) Paul Peters.

Admin/Biographical History: Lt. Col. Peters served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 642 Bomb Sq., 409th Bomb Group (L) during World War II. He began his military career in 1939 as a communications and camouflage officer. He retired from the Air Force in 1965 as Lieutenant Colonel. Military service 08/03/1939 - 12/25/1965.; DOB 11/14/1920; DOD 04/24/2014. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128641364/emanuel-paul-peters

Date Range: 2004/07/09

Creation Date: 9 July 2004

Date of Interview: 2004-07-09

Creator: Peters, Emanuel Paul, 1920-2014, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Friedman, William Frederick; Peters, Emanuel "Max" Paul; Peters, Margaret Jane Groff

Interviewer: Newton, Beverly

Narrator: Peters, Emanuel (Max) Paul

Other Creators: Newton, Beverly, collector

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history; United States. Air Force; United States. Army. Air Corps; Veterans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; World War, 1939-1945

Search Terms: Oral histories; United States Air Force; United States Army Air Corps; Veterans; World War II; WWII

Place of Interview: LancasterHistory

Quantity: 1

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:33:43

Language: English

Object ID: OH0001

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Mark Subject; 22:16:00 Worked with William F. Friedman; 22:34:00 Studied Enigma, and Purple Machine; 23:00:00 Worked with integrating sigint and electronic warfare; 24:39:00 Head of electronic warfare division; 24:47:00 Wins Legion of Merit; 25:20:00 Goes to California to work.; 26:00:00 Engineers would go to Stanford to share information.; 28:00:00 Returns with wife to Lancaster.; 29:12:00 Didn't realize importance of new science.; 31:41:00 Describes van belonging to local amateur club.; 00:33:67 Ironville named after iron mines in area; 00:55:20 built radios; 01:05:43 Joined Boy Scouts; 01:45:58 Listened to Berlin, Germany on his homemade radio; 02:14:02 Used old parts to make his radios; 02:31:57 Max put his radio on his bicycle; 03:20:20 Joined military in 1939; 04:43:40 Going through jungle in Panama; 04:53:29 Recalls going down river in canoes with alligators close by; 05:19:25 Went to OCS; 05:34:96 Sent to Florida - Tampa International Airport; 06:07:15 Radar Officer on SCR 270; 06:32:21 Transferred to Oklahoma; 07:20:68 Crosses ocean on ship named Martinia; 08:14:00 Was part of convoy. Martinia leaves convoy.; 09:36:90 In England. First mission can't find France (weather).; 09:46:70 Returning aircraft low on fuel. "Mayday" heard often.; 10:01:49 Pilots could see water towers in States. Can't do same in Europe.; 10:48:80 Learned to trust equipment. Found France on 2nd mission.; 11:12:00 Could tell weather by amount of signal received at base.; 11:28:00 "Spoofing" stations on base.; 12:10:00 D-Day.; 12:20:00 Practiced deception often before D-Day.; 12:50:00 Painted black and white stripes on aircraft.; 13:13:00 General Patton was decoy for D-Day.; 15:00:00 "G-equipment"; 15:55:00 Used smoke to designate target; 16:23:00 "No-ball" target; 16:33:00 "no-ball" target signified German V-1 rocket plane; 17:22:00 Wind shifted. Bombs dropped on friendly troops. Gen McNair victim.; 17:38:00 Started infantry and aircorp exchanges.; 17:44:00 River crossing; 18:14:00 "Cat eyes".; 19:36:00 Strafed by Me 109.; 20:28:00 Returns to states. Goes to F & M.; 21:59:00 Gets job at Arlington Hall, Virginia

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Classification: OH0001

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Database record revised by HST, 20 July 2022.

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0025

Date Range: 2006/03/17

a big stories to tell. We’ve got a lot of people now who are starting to write down some of the L a n c a s t e r H i s t o r y �memories and get together with other folk, and always need to get some of those stories too. J: Well I have two huge albums at home, but… I: oh yeah? J: Pictures and you

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: Oral history interview with World War II veteran and Baseball enthusiast, Joe Myers

Date Range: 2006/03/17

Date of Interview: 2006-03-17

Creator: Myers, Joe, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Eckhart, Howard; Myers, Joe

Interviewer: Rauhauser, Barry

Narrator: Myers, Joe

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history

Search Terms: Oral histories

Place of Interview: LCHS

Quantity: 1

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:50:02

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: OH0025

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

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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

Notes: Contact ID Mark Subject; 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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Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0058

Date Range: 2005/09/28

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Mrs. Wagner Interviewer: Unknown Place of Interview: Date of Interview: Transcriber: Katie Fichtner Date of Transcription: 09/28/2005 Edited by: Narrator: Mrs. Wagner, first of all, I’d like to ask you have you always lived in

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: Last Time the Liberty Bell was in Lancaster; Operation Remember

Date Range: 2005/09/28

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Wagner, Edna

Narrator: Wagner, Edna

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history

Search Terms: Oral histories; Liberty Bell

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:07:21

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: OH0058

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Other Numbers: #1A

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0059

Date Range: 2006/03/24

a feel for the kind of busyness and turmoil that was taking place, what took place? H: Well, from the beginning of the year a lawyer had so many clients that were going to buy real estate, and he searched the titles, well title searching is a time consuming matter, and therefore, you had that

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: Oral history interview former attornery Harris Arnold

Date Range: 2006/03/24

Date of Interview: 2006-03-24

Creator: Arnold, Harris, 1933-2014, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Arnold, Harris C.

Interviewer: Roy, Tom

Narrator: Arnold, Harris C.

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history

Search Terms: Oral histories

Place of Interview: LancasterHistory

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:19:18

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: OH0059

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Other Numbers: #1B

Description Level: Item

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0060

Date Range: 2006/03/23

real estate transactions. I: Again kind of the beginning and the end of the agricultural year. L: And that only lasted for a matter of two or three years when it started to level off. One of the reasons for the leveling off on this thing was that many builders started to build instead of a house for

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: Oral interview with Lester Herr

Date Range: 2006/03/23

Date of Interview: 2006-03-23

Creator: Herr, Lester, 1921-2005, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Herr, Lester

Interviewer: Roy, Tom

Narrator: Herr, Lester

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history

Search Terms: Oral histories

Place of Interview: LancasterHistory

Quantity: 1

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:10:31

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: OH0060

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Other Numbers: #2A

Description Level: Item

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Object ID: OH0061

Date Range: 2006/05/27

Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Wilmer Eshelman Interviewer: Mike Frey Place: Date: Transcriber: Warren Metzger Date of Transcription: 05/27/2006 Edited by: N: Wilmer Eshelman on farming. Interviewer, Mike Frey. Ok, Mr. Eshelman, would you like to start by

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Description: Oral history interview about grain operations and farming with Wilmer Eshelman

Date Range: 2006/05/27

Date of Interview: 2006-05-27

Creator: Eshelman, Wilmer, interviewee

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Eshleman, Wilmer J.

Interviewer: Frey, Mike

Narrator: Eshleman, Wilmer J.

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subjects: Oral history

Search Terms: Farming; Oral histories

Place of Interview: LancasterHistory

Quantity: 1

Object Name: Recording, Audio

Media: Cassette Tape

Length of Interview: 00:30:26

Language: English

Condition: Fair

Object ID: OH0061

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.

Other Numbers: #2B

Description Level: Item

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: Oral history interview with elder Yetta Sachs

Object ID: OH0064

Date Range: 1975

always say to them, “Why buy a new wardrobe for Europe buy a new wardrobe and hang it in your closet so when you get back and you’re old, things are worn out then you put you’re new ones on because when you’re traveling in Europe, you have a well rounded wardrobe, you don’t need new clothes. You only

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Collection: Oral History Collection

Title: Oral history interview with elder Yetta Sachs

Description: Oral history interview with elder Yetta Sachs in 1975. Interview contains experts about Lancaster County's dramatic change in fashion since the 1920s.