Oral history interview with I. J. Ramsbottom, 2003 July 01.

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Oral history interview with I. J. Ramsbottom, 2003 July 01.

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Interview with I. J. Ramsbottom, a landscape architect and Navy veteran (Photographic Reconnaissance Interpretation Section, Intelligence Center), concerning his experience as a member of PRISIC in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Educational background including graduation from Kansas State University with a degree in landscape architecture; commissioning as a U.S. Navy ensign, 1941; induction school, Tucson, Arizona, 1941-42; photographic interpretation school, Anacostia Naval Air Station, Washington, DC, 1942; model-making school, Anacostia NAS, 1942; assignment to PRISIC, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1942; work in the Photographic Interpretation Unit; move to Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA), 1943; planning for amphibious invasions; his eye-witness account of General Douglas MacArthur's filmed rehearsals on New Guinea for his landing during the invasion of the Philippines; assignment to Army Intelligence, Washington, DC, January, 1945.

60 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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