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Title
Dr
.
Tom
Bowlus
Duration
1:07:15
Place
Pemberville
Public
Library
Description
Dr
.
Tom
Bowlus
, then a
pre-med
student
at
Bowling
Green
Normal
School
,
watched
with
detached
interest
as
war
clouds
gathered
over
Europe
and
Asia
. Then the
announcement
of the
Pearl
Harbor
attack
and
President
Roosevelt's
"
Day
of
Infamy
"
speech
signaled
to
Bowlus
that he was
likely
to
become
involved
in the
war
. At the
advice
of a
faculty
advisor
, he
volunteered
for
service
and
continued
his
education
through
September
1943
,
when
he was
called
for
service
in the
army
. This
interview
covers
details
of his
earliest
days
in
service
,
including
the
seemingly
endless
series
of
vaccinations
at
induction
, the
primitive
conditions
on
troop
trains
and his
training
. He was
trained
as a
battlefield
medic
, and
later
in
surgical
procedure
so
he
could
serve
as a
scrub
nurse
.
Dr
.
Bowlus
recalls
that
when
he was
training
at
Fort
Sam
Houston
, in
San
Antonio
, they
saw
many
soldiers
who
were
traumatized
by the
Japanese
tactics
.
After
training
,
Dr
.
Bowlus
embarked
for the
Pacific
Theater
on a
WWI-era
troop
ship
.
Thirty
days
after
leaving
San
Francisco
, the
ship
docked
in
New
Caledonia
. The
discussion
includes
a
description
of the
food
and the
general
conditions
aboard
ship
. From
New
Caledonia
,
Dr
.
Bowlus
spent
a
short
time
in
Guadal
Canal
before
being
sent
to
Bogenville
. He was
assigned
to be a
medic
with
Company
B
of the
55th
Combat
Engineer
Battalion
, a
part
of the
Americal
Division
. In
Bogenville
, his
company
built
fortifications
,
including
those
along
the
Numa
Numa
River
,
where
there was
constant
fighting
with the
Japanese
.
About
three
weeks
after
the
invasion
of
Lete
, the
company
moved
to the
Philippines
. There, they
participated
in the
invasion
of
Sebu
,
where
they had a
close
call
with a
Japanese
bomber
.
One
of
Dr
.
Bowlus
'
friends
,
Warren
Hofelter
, was
killed
in
another
incident
.
Company
B
was in
Sebu
when
the
Japanese
surrendered
;
later
the
Americal
was
one
of the
first
divisions
to
occupy
Japan
. They
landed
in a
devastated
Tokyo
,
where
Dr
.
Bowlus
was
assigned
to a
hospital
until
his
return
home
in
February
1946
.
Dale
Bruning
is
the
interviewer
.
Date of Original
March
11
,
2008
Source
http://www.norweld.org/MyWar/DrTomBowlus.html
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