Phillip Godwin World War II Interview

Phillip Godwin World War II Interview

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.

United States -- History, Military.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews.

United States. Navy -- History.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care.

Phillip A. Godwin served in the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman first class from 1946 to 1948. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston on June 18, 2007, Godwin talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Godwin was born on January 24, 1928, in Indiana. He moved to Hutchinson, Kansas in 1943. In May 1946, he enlisted in the Navy. He went to corpsman training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center and to the corps school in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was assigned to the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, where he tended to the wounded, returning soldiers until 1948. Photographs of Godwin in his uniforms are also available.

Godwin, Phillip

Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project

Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.)

2007-06-18

Johnston, Pattie

Kansas State Historical Society

The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. This interview can be used freely for purposes beyond educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/

To access the video recording of this oral history and photographs, go to: https://archive.org/details/godwin-phillips-wwii-interview

The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection.

Transcripts for this project are available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212773

Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm

MP4

eng

Oral History

Godwin_Phillips WWII Interview

Phillip Godwin in Navy 003

Phillip Godwin in Navy 004

Philadelphia (Pa.)

1946 - 1948

Johnston, Pattie

Godwin, Phillip

Lawrence (Kan.)

VHS

1:02:13

221 kbit/s (audio)

2440 kbit/s (video)