Sherwood Fine oral history interview

1980-03-12

Fine, Sherwood; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Sherwood Fine conducted by Marlene Mayo on March 12, 1980. Sherwood Fine (1914- 2000) was born in New York City and stayed in New York through college, earning a PhD in economics in 1943. During the war, Fine was in Turkey working with the Office of Strategic Services. After the war, he served as economics and planning director under General Douglas MacArthur where he had tasks including economic advisor to the Foreign Trade Section. Returning to the U.S. after the Occupation, Fine kept government jobs and later taught economics at multiple universities. He passed away in Virginia in November of 2000.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

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

Japan; Virginia; McLean

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 02:38:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 59 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-087538