The Herbert T. Ueda Oral History, dated 2002-2010, contains audio recordings, administrative information, and transcripts of the interview between Ueda and Brian Shoemaker of the American Polar Society conducted on October 23, 2002, and correspondence from 2010 about the transcripts of the interview. This interview was a part of a series of polar oral histories sponsored by American Polar Society and Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Major topics that Ueda discussed include being incarcerated at the Minidoka War Relocation Center during World War II, working for the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment (SIPRE), which became the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), working on ice drilling projects at Camp TUTO (Thule Take-Off) and Camp Century in Greenland and the conditions there, developing and working with thermal and electromechanical drills, and working on ice drilling projects at Byrd Station in Antarctica.

The Anthony J. Gow Oral History, dated 2002-after 2002, contains notes, audio recordings, and transcripts of the interview between Gow and Brian Shoemaker conducted on October 26, 2002. This interview was a part of a series of polar oral histories sponsored by American Polar Society and Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Major topics discussed include the Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Research Establishment ice drilling in Antarctica and the ice core samples that resulted from these projects; the Koettlitz Glacier and the conversion of glacial ice to sea ice; Arctic floebergs and sea ice off the Alaskan coast; and the simultaneous experiments by the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and the Marginal Ice Zone Program.