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Collection
Sports, Leisure & Play Collection
Object ID
2006.011
Date Range
2005
Collection
Sports, Leisure & Play Collection
Description
Collection of objects related to the Lancaster Barnstormer's first season.
-Closet Lamp
-Commemorative tickets for opening night
-Ticket, May 11, 2005
-Box, "Rally Roni"
-Plastic Tub, "Cylo", Lancaster Barnstormers
Date Range
2005
Year Range From
2005
Year Range To
2005
Storage Location
LCHS / Willson Memorial Building
Storage Room
Museum North
Storage Wall
East Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 07
Storage Shelf
Shelf 3
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Object Name
Ephemera
Condition
Good
Object ID
2006.011
Less detail
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH 2004 003
Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Watt, David S.
World War II veteran
00:02:00 Introduction
00:16:03 Watt born in India
00:24:07 Parents were missionaries from Lancaster
00:31:00 Presbytarian
00:39:00 Born in northern India
01:17:00 Student at F & M.
01:33:00 Studied Business Administration at F & M.
01:43:00 Enlisted
01:47:00 Pilot experience
01:55:00 Had an aircraft
02:06:00 Learned to fly before enlistment
02:13:00 Training at Lancaster Airport
02:32:00 Interviewed Jessie and Howard Eckhart
03:20:00 Primary training in Oklahoma (Air force)
03:45:00 San Antonio (West Point of the Air)
04:07:00 Married current wife four years ago
04:18:00 Attended flight school as officer
04:23:00 flew B-24 Liberator bombers
04:36:00 Transition from small plane to large bomber
05:04:00 Ten people on B-24
05:32:00 Range of a B-24
05:46:00 Targets mostly in southern Europe
05:56:00 Targeted mostly harbors
06:23:00 Mission to hold Suez Canal against Rommel
06:54:00 B-24 against German anti-aircraft gunners
07:08:00 German fighters worst hazard
07:18:00 Watt flew twenty-seven missions
07:48:00 Memorable mission a disaster.
07:51:00 Attack on Ploesti oil refineries
08:05:00 Old organization and old planes
08:19:00 never announced that job was to eliminate air force
08:25:00 mission was low level attack
08:37:00 Not many people and planes survived
09:22:00 Attack was end of air force
09:28:00 Part of design but no one said so
09:55:00 Thirty-six planes sent out on Ploesti raid
10:17:00 No indication before hand
10:25:00 had done job assigned to unit
11:10:00 Making friends. Stationed in Palestine
11:42:00 Moved to Little Bitter Lake in Egypt
12:01:00 Relaxed between missions
12:14:00 Considered "assigned pilots"
12:43:00 Played poker for entertainment
13:21:00 Flew about every three weeks
13:47:00 Believed in performance not good luck
14:07:00 Became second in command of squadron
14:32:00 Medals brought by David Watt
16:05:00 Important document to service member
16:52:00 Medals awarded while in service
17:27:00 campaign medal
17:57:00 Bracelet he made for his first wife
18:27:00 also has frat pin from F & M
18:53:00 Silver Star
19:01:00 Silver Star, second highest medal
19:53:00 Received Silver Star in 2000
20:51:00 mission through bad fog
22:40:00 Watt was operations officer
22:44:00 Broke on top of cloud bank.
23:00:00 Attacked target with other bombers
23:02:00 Was attacked by German fighters
23:38:00 Status of war
24:30:00 Watt's Veterans Day Rememberance talk starts
31:45:00 Worked at Watt and Shand (3rd generation Watt)
32:27:00 Worked in Toy, Jewelry, Candy Departments
32:39:00 First Floor Manager
33:06:00 No problem with transition to civilian life
33:17:00 Family did not have a background in flying
34:49:00 Any thoughts to pass on to future military and current
35:09:00 Keep head up. And NOT up ….
Collection Date
2004-10-19
Collector
Newton, Beverly
People
Watt, David S.
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Object Name
Oral History
Condition
Good
Object ID
OH 2004 003
Less detail
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH 2004 007
Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Snyder, Charles V., Jr.
World War II Veteran
Graduated from F & M. Enlisted in the army, 1942. Military intelligence. Security for Bob Hope, Frances Langford, Al Jolson. Undercover agent/had privilieges of field grade officers. Called back in 1951. Served as first lieutenant.
00:00:22 life prior to military
00:00:29 from Lancaster,
00:00:32 Graduated from McCaskey, (first class in 1938)
00:00:38 attended F & M College (1938 to 1942)
00:00:49 drafted six months before graduation
00:00:56 obtained six month deferment
00:01:13 obtained degree in 1942 (sociology)
00:02:14 One hundred plus in graduating class
00:02:29 Lowell Thomas speaker at graduation
00:03:02 wanted military intelligence work
00:03:09 Basic at Keesler field, Mississippi
00:03:22 Went to radio school in Sioux Falls, SD
00:03:32 trouble learning morse code
00:03:48 transferred to counter-intelligence corp
00:04:12 school about three months long
00:04:28 learned lockpicking and investigative work
00:04:54 went to Miami, Florida
00:05:20 detachment with ATC
00:05:46 Snyder had experience with radio
00:06:07 others had gone to air mechanics school
00:06:28 worked undercover in radio and mechanics fields
00:07:09 trips back and forth to Africa
00:08:00 flight miles totalled 41,790
00:08:58 sent to Marikesh
00:09:27 worked undercover on base
00:09:33 tried to stop any sabatoge
00:10:07 investigations did not turn up any sabatours
00:10:36 assigned to USO tours
00:11:14 Bob Hope, Gracie Fields and others
00:11:38 "short snorter"
00:11:49 flights over the equator
00:12:53 start with a dollar bill
00:14:04 General Gerow and Secretary Stinson autograph
00:14:24 helped with billets and security for USO
00:14:57 Served in Casablanca
00:15:31 went undercover. Did not wear insignia on uniform
00:16:05 passed as civilians on government duty
00:17:03 lived in officers quarters
00:17:10 had field grade officers privilgeces
00:17:24 personnel investigations
00:17:38 made connections with other allied intelligence forces
00:18:08 Germans had been evicted from North Africa
00:19:46 agents strung across North Africa
00:20:05 Reports sent by courier
00:21:14 lived in an apartment in Casablanca
00:21:54 learned French from lady landlord
00:22:38 carried a weapon.
00:23:01 picked to go to Africa due to training
00:23:22 did not find any sabatoge
00:24:16 maintained relations with local law enforcement
00:24:45 Overseas April 1943 to December 1944
00:25:25 Went to 2nd Air Force in Colorado Springs
00:25:58 discharged at Ft Meade, Maryland
00:26:48 went to law school at Dickinson college
00:27:12 Father was a dentist
00:27:42 tried to get into Univ of Pennsylania
00:27:53 graduated from Dickinson after two years
00:28:34 received direct commission to 1st Lt
00:28:48 recalled during Korean War
00:29:14 served a year and a half
00:29:36 served in counter intelligence
00:29:54 practice handled by older attorney
00:30:13 practiced law for 52 years
00:30:20 semi-retired now
00:30:43 soliticor for RRTA and Sheriff of Lancaster county
00:31:18 used G.I. Bill for schooling
00:32:04 tuition $400 to $500 a year in the 1940s
00:32:44 main thrust, maintain security for air bases
00:33:24 C-47s and C-46s airplanes
00:34:04 had contact with local law officials
00:34:11 not a member of VFW or Legion
00:35:50 King Farouk of Egypt
00:37:08 Trip to Holy Land
00:38:10 Flying hours - 230
00:39:27 flew through some storms
00:39:37 Accident day before his arrival
00:39:55 close
Collection Date
2004-10-18
Collector
Newton, Beverly
People
Snyder, Charles V., Jr.
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Object Name
Oral History
Condition
Good
Object ID
OH 2004 007
Less detail
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH 2004 012
Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Fisher, Paul G.
World War II veteran
Army Air Force, 1943. 353rd Air Force Band, trumpeter. Basic at St Petersburg, FL.
Collection Date
2004-10-22
Collector
Newton, Beverly
People
Fisher, Paul G.
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Object Name
Oral History
Condition
Good
Object ID
OH 2004 012
Less detail
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH 2004 023
Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Snavely, James L.
World War II veteran
Drafted senior year in high school. Sent to Europe at end of war.
Collection Date
2004-10-15
Collector
Newton, Beverly
People
Snavely, James L.
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Object Name
Oral History
Condition
Good
Object ID
OH 2004 023
Less detail
Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH 2004 025
Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Myers, Joseph
Baseball
Collection Date
2004-02-17
Collector
Rauhauser, Barry
People
Myers, Joseph
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Object Name
Oral History
Condition
Good
Object ID
OH 2004 025
Notes
Needs Transcribed
Less detail
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.
Documents
Less detail
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.
Description Level
Item
Documents
Less detail
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.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Description Level
Item
Documents
Less detail
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
Description Level
Item
Documents
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