Herbert Greer oral history interview

1979-09-12

Greer, Herbert; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Herbert Greer conducted by Marlene Mayo on September 12, 1979. Herbert Greer (1921-2007) was born and raised in Ohio, eventually going to Connecticut to study law at Yale University. He joined the Army in 1940. When the war began, Greer was a judge advocate in charge of overseeing the courts in the United States. After the war, Greer was still a judge advocate but was assigned to Japan with the 24th Division in 1947. 

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 (audio cassette; 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