Valentine Deale oral history interview

1980-03-24/1980-05-06

Deale, Valentine; Dove, Kay

Oral history interview with Valentine Deale conducted by Kay Dove on March 24 and May 6 1980. Valentine Deale (1918-) was born in Cleveland, Ohio and stayed in Ohio through college. After law school, Deale enrolled in the Japanese Navy Language School in Boulder, Colorado as a civilian. In July of 1944, after intense language courses, he worked with the Navy in Washington D.C. at the Office of Naval Intelligence on the Japan Desk. He used this training to later be part of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey in Japan, where he evaluated the effectiveness of American warfare and bombing on Japan.

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: 02:45:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 39 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-087529