Oral History Interview with Paul Dillon
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Paul Dillon. Dillon was in the army until he was discharged in September 1941 after being seriously injured from being run over by a military vehicle. He held various jobs until June 1942 at which time he entered the Navy and trained at Norfolk, Virginia. Upon graduation he was selected for gunnery school at Little Creek, Virginia. After training he was sent to the Brooklyn Armed Guard Center for assignment. Recalling his assignment as a naval gunner on the SS Jacob Luckenbach (1918), he tells of taking a shipment of planes and parts to Persia for shipment to Russia. On his next trip he was on a ship equipped with an experimental type of anti-torpedo gear called M-29. His next assignment was aboard the SS John A. Poor (1943). He recalls an explosion (mines) that knocked out the engine. As a consequence the ship was dead until sea-going tugs towed the ship to Halifax for repairs. He also describes the ship being torpedoed on 19 March 1944 off of the coast of Ceylon. Of the 106 assigned to the ship, only 39 survived. The survivors were picked up by the SS John Walch and taken to Colombia, Ceylon. In January 1945 Dillon was sent to the Philippines for assignment to the USS Dobbin (AD-3). The ship returned to the United States in November 1945 and he was discharged.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.110 | 0.022 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".