- Collection:
- World War II Veterans Project
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Gene Ohlinger, World War II, Bainbridge, Georgia, 2006 March 24
- Creator:
- Southwest Georgia Regional Library System
- Contributor to Resource:
- Bush, Tom
Livingston, Mayo - Publisher:
- Bainbridge, Ga. : Southwest Georgia Regional Library System
- Date of Original:
- 2006-03-24
- Subject:
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Veterans--Georgia
World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Georgia
United States. Navy
Minesweepers
World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Prisoners and prisons
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Decatur County, Bainbridge, 30.9038, -84.57547
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Gene Ohlinger recounts his WWII experiences in the United States Navy as an underwater demolitions expert on a mine sweeper cutting cables of live mines to prevent explosion in the Pacific. Active duty was in Hawaii, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. After the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, he freed Australian prisoners held in Hiroshima and detonated mines in the China Sea. Funding for the SWGRL WWII Veterans Project provided by the Thomas M. and Irene B. Kirbo Charitable Trust. Funding for digitization of the interviews provided by Georgia HomePLACE, a unit of the Georgia Public Library Service.
- Local Identifier:
- 31052006384600
https://youtu.be/-bSYo4kxjD0 - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:zhs_wvp_-bsyo4kxjd0
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:zhs_wvp_-bsyo4kxjd0
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Gene Ohlinger
- Extent:
- 25 minutes
- Original Collection:
- World War II Veterans Project
- Holding Institution:
- Southwest Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
