John Howes oral history interview

1979-03-29

Howes, John; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with John Howes conducted by Marlene Mayo on March 29, 1979. John Howes was born and raised in Illinois. During the war, he joined the Navy and went to the language school. After being released from the Navy at the end of the war, he was hired by the Army as a civilian as a linguistic to go to Japan. Later, Howes was transferred to an office job in the Civil Intelligence Section in General Douglas MacArthur’s building where he was in charge of organizing information.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

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

Japan; California; Los Angeles

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:55:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 51 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-087552