1988.025
There is a gap in the video where the tape ran out and the interviewer had to stop and change to a new tape. The end part of the story was lost in the changeover.
Creator
Todd, Joe L. (Interviewer) [Recorded in Ponca City, Oklahoma]
Extent (quantity/size)
2 hours 10 minutes
Subjects
Military / Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 / United States -- Armed Forces / World War, 1939-1945 / World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy
Descriptive Notes
Jack McNiece was born on May 24, 1919 in Maysville, Oklahoma. He describes his early life during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and what led to him working as a civilian fireman on an US Air Force base in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1940. Angered by the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Mr. McNiece left his job as a fireman so that he could join the US Army. He recalls his experiences in the European Theater of World War II as a paratrooper, seeing action in Normandy and Germany. He also discusses how the exploits of the unit he led, the 'Filthy Thirteen', became the basis for the war film 'The Dirty Dozen'.
