Maynard Bauleke World War II Interview

Maynard Bauleke World War II Interview

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.

United States. Navy -- History.

United States -- History, Military.

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

Lawrence (Kan.) -- Oral history.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area.

Maynard Bauleke was drafted into the United States Navy in 1943 and served until 1945. Interviewed by Deborah Pye, Bauleke talked about his experiences during and after the Second World War. Bauleke was born on May 5, 1925, in Minnesota. He attended boot camp at the Farragut Naval Base and the San Diego Naval Base. He also received training as an electrician at the University of Kansas. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor and Midway Island. After the war, Bauleke worked at the Green Giant Company. He then went to the University of Kansas and transferred to the University of Alabama and later attended the University of Illinois and Iowa State University. He received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in ceramics and a Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering. Following graduate school, he worked at Honeywell in Minneapolis and at the University of Kansas. Bauleke passed away on December 6, 2015.

Bauleke, Maynard

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

Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.)

2006-10-10

2003-10-26

Pye, Deborah

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. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than 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, go to: https://archive.org/details/bauleke-maynard-wwii-interview

Obituary: https://obituaries.ljworld.com/obituaries/LJWorld/obituary.aspx?n=Maynard-Paul-Bauleke&pid=176817073

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/211937

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

Bauleke_Maynard WWII Interview

Midway Islands

1943 - 2006

VHS

2:07:20

127 kbit/s (audio)

1591 kbit/s (video)

Pye, Deborah

Bauleke, Maynard

Lawrence (Kan.)