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Oral history interview with R. Bruce Deam

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.310 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0310

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    Oral history interview with R. Bruce Deam

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Bruce Deam, born on July 7, 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, describes his childhood; his Jewish friends; attending a military academy in Northern Illinois that is now closed; hearing from his Jewish friends in the early 1930s about their families' experiences in Europe; volunteering for the Merchant Marines in February 1944, but being simultaneously drafted by the Army; being married at the time; not being released from the draft board to go to the Merchant Marines; being sent to Texas for training at Ft. Hood; being trained as a radio operator and rifleman; being sent to Europe; encountering many battles with his unit; fighting in the Battle of the Bulge on December 16, 1944; his thoughts on the comparison of US troops to German troops; going on to a town in Northern Czechoslovakia, near the German border; his captain learning that 30-70 female prisoners had recently been killed and buried and the captain making the local people in the town dig up the bodies and move them to the sides of a road; how the captain forced the towns people to look at the dead women and then give them proper burials; occupying the town of Gangkofen, Germany, where they set up a guard around the perimeter; training and relaxing Gangkofen until they were allowed to go back to the US; training to go to Japan, but not going because the war ended and he was released; working as a reporter and writer for newspapers; working later on as a public affairs officer for NASA; and his life in retirement.
    Interviewee
    R. B. Deam
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Gina Margello
    Date
    interview:  1991 November 13
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Deam, Bruce, 1914-
    Corporate Name
    United States. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with R. Bruce Deam on November 13, 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2001.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:44:41
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