Charles Decker oral history interview

1981-12-04/1981-12-11

Decker, Charles; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Charles Decker conducted by Marlene Mayo on December 4 and 11 1981. Charles Decker (1921 - ) was born in Ohio in 1921 and grew up in Ladysmith, Wisconsin. He enlisted in the Navy for six years after Pearl Harbor. When he arrived in Japan he was assigned to the Medical Battalion. During the Occupation, Decker worked in General Douglas MacArthur’s Headquarters as a senior International Business Machines man where he worked to protect IBM while it was running in Japan.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 03:10:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 83 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087530