Evelyn Whitney oral history interview

1979-09-06

Whitney, Evelyn; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Evelyn Whitney, conducted by Marlene Mayo on September 6, 1979. Evelyn Whitney (May 19, 1900 - December 24, 1991) was born in New York City and grew up in Washington D.C., where she met U.S. Army Major General Courtney Whitney at a young age. The two married when she was 18. Courtney Whitney was an Army Commander during World War Two and a senior official during the Occupation, working alongside General Douglas MacArthur. After the birth of their first son, the couple lived in Manila, where Courtney was stationed. After the birth of their second son, the Whitneys moved back to the U.S. and then to Japan for the Occupation, where they remained from 1946-51. Courtney passed away in 1969. Evelyn Whitney passed away in 1991.

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: 00:30:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 14 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-087598