Eugene Bovee World War II Interview

Eugene Bovee World War II Interview

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.

United States -- History, Military.

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

United States. Army.

Lawrence (Kan.) -- Oral history.

Eugene Bovee was drafted into the United States Army in May 1942. He served as a military intelligence lieutenant with a censorship group until 1945. Interviewed by Pattie Johnston, Bovee talked about his military experiences during World War II. Bovee was born on April 1, 1915, in Sioux City, Iowa. He went to Morningside College in Sioux City and then to Iowa State Teachers’ College. In 1941, he started graduate school at the University of Iowa and began teaching high school. After being drafted in 1942, he attended several training schools, including military personal training at Camp Grant, Army Clerical School, Officer Candidate School, and Adjutant General’s School of Administration in Washington, D.C. Bovee then went to Cheltenham, England and France. He mostly worked in censorship and spent his days censoring soldiers’ letters. Following the war, he received a master’s degree from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California in Los Angeles. Bovee then became a professor at the University of Kansas. He retired in 1985 and passed on October 20, 2005.

Bovee, Eugene

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

Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.)

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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. 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/bovee-interview

Obituary: https://www2.ljworld.com/life-events/obituaries/2006/sep/17/eugene_bovee/

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/212284

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

Bovee Interview

England

France

1942 - 1946

VHS

1:01:57

317 kbit/s (audio)

10315 kbit/s (video)

Johnston, Pattie

Bovee, Eugene

Douglas County (Kan.)