[Elsie Hornbacher talks about her overseas service as a teacher in Japan, Italy and Austria after WWII].

Elsie Hornbacher talks about her overseas service as a teacher in Japan, Italy and Austria after World War Two. Hornbacher talks about going to Japan in 1949, her ocean voyage to Yokohama, shipboard life, riding out a typhoon, the destruction still evident in postwar Japan, Japanese culture, and how...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project Vincent Voice Library (digitizer,, current owner.)
Other Authors:	Hornbacher, Elsie, 1918- (Speaker)
Language:	English
Subjects:	Teaching > Japan. World War, 1939-1945 > Destruction and pillage > Japan. Korean War, 1950-1953. Teaching > Italy > Naples. Teaching > Austria. Hornbacher, Elsie, > 1918- > Travel > Japan > Hiroshima-shi. Destruction and pillage. Teaching. Travel. Austria. Italy > Naples. Japan. Japan > Hiroshima-shi. 1939-1953 Oral histories.
Genre:	Oral histories.
Online Access:	Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 audio file (1 hr., 6 min., 58 sec.))
Format:	Electronic Audio Software

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