Wilton Dillon oral history interview

1979-03-24

Dillon, Wilton S., 1923-; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Wilton Dillon conducted by Marlene Mayo on March 24, 1979. Wilton Dillon (1923-2015) was born in Yale, Oklahoma. He attended the University of Alabama to study creative writing, and was part of the school’s ROTC program during WWII. The Army Air Forces sent him to the Philippines at the end of the war. After the war, Dillon went to Japan as a civilian information specialist in 1946. He worked with the U.S. Education Mission and later the Allied Control Council that allowed him to work with the War Guilt Information Program. Once Dillon returned to the United States after the war, he earned his doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University. Dillon was known for leading the Smithsonian Institution’s interdisciplinary conference series. He passed away in 2015.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

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

Japan; District of Columbia

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 02:47:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 56 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-087531