Stanley Falk oral history interview

1979-01-22

Falk, Stanley; Dove, Kay

Oral history interview with Stanley Falk conducted by Kay Dove on January 22, 1979. Stanley Falk (1926-1997) joined the Army in 1945 and was sent to Japan in June of 1946. Falk used his Army Japanese Language Program training at the University of Michigan to work as a language officer for the Allied Translator Interpreter Section (ATIS). After leaving ATIS, Falk worked in the Historical Office in Tokyo under General Douglas MacArthur. Once he returned to the U.S. as a civilian, he eventually became the Air Force chief historian.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

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

Japan; District of Columbia; Bolling Air Force Base

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:17:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 32 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-087537