- Collection:
- Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Oral history interview of Walker Reynolds Flournoy
- Creator:
- Westbrook, Frances H.
Flournoy, Walker Reynolds, 1920-2009 - Date of Original:
- 2007-05-31
- Subject:
- Submarine combat
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Submarines (Ships)
Ebert, Walter Gale, 1909-1990
Hollingsworth, John Christie, 1909-1944
Halloran, Richard, 1921-2013
McNeil, John Robert, 1919-1944
United States. Navy
Georgia Military College
University of Georgia
Scamp (Submarine : SS-277)
Quillback (Submarine : SS-424) - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, -27.46794, 153.02809
Japan, Yokosuka-shi, 35.2730564, 139.6653829
New Guinea, -5.52259885, 142.087117627033
Solomon Islands, -9.7354344, 162.8288542
United States, Connecticut, New London County, New London, 41.35565, -72.09952
United States, Florida, Monroe County, Key West, 24.55524, -81.78163
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
United States, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, 43.0717552, -70.7625532
United States, Virginia, City of Norfolk, 36.89126, -76.26188 - Medium:
- video recordings (physical artifacts)
mini-dv - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/quicktime
- Description:
- In this interview, Walker Flournoy remembers his history as a submariner during World War II. Before the war, he was working for Southern Bell on a floating line gang. He joined the Navy in September of 1941 and was home on leave when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He volunteered for electrical school in St. Louis (Mo.). He wanted to volunteer for the Air Forces, but he was color blind and got a friend to memorize the color chart. He eventually decided on the submarine service because "you don't come back a cripple." He describes in great detail the submarines on which he served and recalls that the crew was a tight-knit group. He displays part of his uniform and several artifacts. One of their missions was to pick up downed pilots. He also relates the importance of the Coastwatchers in the Pacific who reported Japanese ship movements. He was in Guam at the end of the war, and was chosen with several crew mates to be part of the disarmament force in Japan. They went in, unarmed, before the surrender was signed. He returned home to the United States on a troop ship and learned that his ship had been reported lost.
Walker Flournoy was a submariner in the Pacific during World War II. - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VHPohr/id/161
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 44:52
- Original Collection:
- Veterans History Project oral history recordings
Veterans History Project collection, MSS 1010, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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