Oral History Interview with Stanford "Stan" Bernstein
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Title
Oral History Interview with Stanford "Stan" Bernstein
Description
Stan talks about his service with 82nd Seabees on islands in the Pacific such as Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Okinawa. The other voice towards the end of the interview is Alex Strohmayer's.
For information additional about the 82nd Seabees (also referred to as 82nd Naval Construction Battalion), please click on this link:
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/Cruisebooks/wwiicruisebooks/ncb-cruisebooks/82%20%20NCB%20%201943-45.pdf
Stan can be found in the list of Enlisted Personnel under Bernstein.
For information additional about the 82nd Seabees (also referred to as 82nd Naval Construction Battalion), please click on this link:
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/Cruisebooks/wwiicruisebooks/ncb-cruisebooks/82%20%20NCB%20%201943-45.pdf
Stan can be found in the list of Enlisted Personnel under Bernstein.
Creator
Yonkers Public Library
Source
Stanford Bernstein
Publisher
Yonkers Public Library
Date
6/4/2019
Relation
Oral History Interview with Alex Strohmayer:
http://archive.ypl.org/items/show/674
Photograph of Standford and Alex:
http://archive.ypl.org/items/show/676
http://archive.ypl.org/items/show/674
Photograph of Standford and Alex:
http://archive.ypl.org/items/show/676
Format
MP3
Identifier
2019.032.001
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Interviewer
Michael Walsh
Interviewee
Standford Bernstein
Location
Grinton I. Will Library
Original Format
MP3
Duration
23:45
Time Summary
00:22-Born in Bronx.
00:39-Baseball, basketball leagues in the Bronx.
1:11-Memory of December 7, 1941.
3:30-Enlisted in the Seabees.
4:00-Enlisted in 1942.
4:45-Goes to Rhode Island for boot camp.
5:11-Shipped to Gulfport, Mississippi.
5:43-Shipped to California.
6:21-Lands on New Caledonia.
6:41-Sent to Guadalcanal.
7:25-Clearing roads on Guadalcanal.
7:39-Gets malaria-goes to hospital.
8:20-Sent to Solomon Islands-building land strips for planes.
9:37-Sent to Bougainville Island.
10:05-Foxholes protection from spent shells.
11:20-Disembarking from ships due to attacking enemy planes.
11:42-Gets jungle rot-sent to Sydney, Australia to recover.
12:32-Lands on Okinawa.
13:05-Moves trucks and tanks inland for American forces.
13:36-Hears kamikazes above Okinawa attacking American ships.
14:10-500 out 1,000 stayed with the 82nd Seabees during the war. Stan was one of them.
15:17-Declines to stay in Seabees-post would be in the South Pole.
15:41-Suffers from dysentery.
16:36-Meets wife and gets married.
18:23-Ground coral used for airstrips.
18:37-Learned how to operate crane, bulldozers, and boats.
20:40-High cost of taking Iwo Jima.
21:53-Stan and Alex the last of the Jewish War Veterans organization in Yonkers
00:39-Baseball, basketball leagues in the Bronx.
1:11-Memory of December 7, 1941.
3:30-Enlisted in the Seabees.
4:00-Enlisted in 1942.
4:45-Goes to Rhode Island for boot camp.
5:11-Shipped to Gulfport, Mississippi.
5:43-Shipped to California.
6:21-Lands on New Caledonia.
6:41-Sent to Guadalcanal.
7:25-Clearing roads on Guadalcanal.
7:39-Gets malaria-goes to hospital.
8:20-Sent to Solomon Islands-building land strips for planes.
9:37-Sent to Bougainville Island.
10:05-Foxholes protection from spent shells.
11:20-Disembarking from ships due to attacking enemy planes.
11:42-Gets jungle rot-sent to Sydney, Australia to recover.
12:32-Lands on Okinawa.
13:05-Moves trucks and tanks inland for American forces.
13:36-Hears kamikazes above Okinawa attacking American ships.
14:10-500 out 1,000 stayed with the 82nd Seabees during the war. Stan was one of them.
15:17-Declines to stay in Seabees-post would be in the South Pole.
15:41-Suffers from dysentery.
16:36-Meets wife and gets married.
18:23-Ground coral used for airstrips.
18:37-Learned how to operate crane, bulldozers, and boats.
20:40-High cost of taking Iwo Jima.
21:53-Stan and Alex the last of the Jewish War Veterans organization in Yonkers
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Collection
Citation
Yonkers Public Library, “Oral History Interview with Stanford "Stan" Bernstein,” Yonkers Public Library Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, http://archive.ypl.org/items/show/675.