John Cumberland oral history interview

1982-02-09

Cumberland, John H.; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with John Cumberland conducted by Marlene Mayo on February 9, 1982. John Cumberland (1924 - ) was born in Yosemite, California in 1924 and grew up in Maryland, later attending the University of Maryland in 1941. After Pearl Harbor, Cumberland enlisted in the Air Force following his years in the University of Maryland’s ROTC program through the Enlisted Reserve Corps.  He was in Japan at the beginning of the Occupation, waiting to return home to resume his college education.

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: 01:30:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 33 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-087527