Leora Smith oral history interview

2014-03-11

Smith, Leora; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Leora Smith conducted by Marlene Mayo on March 11, 2014. Leora Smith was born on April 16, 1921 in Hayden, CO. In 1942, she married her first husband, a lieutenant in the Army Air Force who attended the Army language school in 1945. In 1946, he was sent to Japan, and Leora soon followed, arriving in Japan in 1947. She came back to the U.S. and attended a photography school in Denver. She then took a job with the Civil Services Offices and went back to Japan in 1950, working with Civil Affairs for the Department of Army Civilians (DAC) as an administrative secretary in the Public Health Department. While in Japan, she continued her passion for photography. She then went on to live in Vermont for three years, where she worked for the Air Force as an administrative assistant. Smith was then transferred to Germany during its occupation, continuing her career in photography. As of 2014, Leora Smith was residing in Maryland.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

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

Japan; Maryland; Gwynn Oak

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:33:47 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 39 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 2015-0018-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087585