Herbert Greer oral history interview

1979-09-12

Greer, Herbert; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Grant Goodman conducted by Marlene Mayo on March 14, 1981. Grant Goodman (1924 - 2014) was born in 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was attending Princeton University when WWII broke out. He entered the U.S. Army for Intensive Japanese Language School to work in Military Intelligence. Goodman interrogated Japanese prisoners and worked as a worked with the GHQ on the terms of surrender for Japan. He worked with translating and had some work with the War Crimes Trials. He worked in Tokyo in SCAP during the Occupation. When he was discharged a year after arriving in Tokyo, he returned to the U.S. He later became a professor at the University of Kansas to teach Asian studies. He passed away in 2014.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

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

Japan; Virginia; Virginia Beach

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:14:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 12 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-087547