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Tagged with "Peter B. Lane"

  • His experiences as an infantry platoon leader in the European Theater during World War II. Education at U. S. Military Academy, 1940-43; basic infantry training at Fort Benning; assignment to the 66th Infantry Division, Camp Joseph Robinson,…
  • His experiences as a radioman aboard a B-26 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in 1940 and stateside training; assignment to the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron; antisubmarine patrols off the West Coast of the U. S. in early 1942;…
  • Businessman. His experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Pre-flight, primary flight, and advanced flight training in the U. S., 1943-44; training in the B-17 at Roswell, New Mexico, 1944; comments about individual…
  • His experiences concerning the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; the Guadalcanal Campaign as commander of VMF-224; and as head of the 584 Radar units during the campaigns for the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Navy ROTC at…
  • His experiences concerning his association with General Roger Ramey, 1937-57. Operations against Rabaul in the Pacific Theater during World War II; atomic bomb tests at Kwajalein and Eniwetok, 1946 (Project CROSSROADS); relationship between Ramey…
  • His experiences while attached to the 4th Marine Division as a medic in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Decision to join the Navy, 1943; Hospital Corps School, San Diego, 1943; assignment to the Fleet Marine Force; Field Medical School,…
  • Educator. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Family life and growing up around Groesbeck, Texas, during the Great Depression; his education through Westminster Junior College and Bible Institute; thoughts about Franklin D.…
  • His experiences as a B-17 gunner/bombardier in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in West Texas; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; Drake University, 1943; pre-flight training, Santa Ana, California, 1943; washing out…
  • College administrator. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Induction into the Army, June, 1941; basic training, Camp Roberts, California; Officer Candidate School, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, July-September, 1942;…
  • His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Boyhood in central Texas; his induction into the Army and basic training at Camp Howze, Gainesville, Texas, 1942-43; Camp Clayborne and Louisiana maneuvers, 1943; shipment to England,…
  • His experiences as a combat infantryman in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. Joining the Illinois National Guard, 1938; federalization of the Illinois National Guard, March, 1941; training at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, 1941-42;…
  • His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. Youth in central Texas; decision to enter the military, 1940; assignment to the 12th Artillery Battalion, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, 1940; transfer to Headquarters, 2nd Infantry…
  • His experiences as a flight engineer on a B-24 in the European Theater and his subsequent experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. His youth and education in Elkhart, Indiana; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program,…
  • His experiences as an administrative officer in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His education at Georgia Military College and the University of Georgia, 1934-38; his career as a journalist, 1938-40; enlistment in the Army Air…
  • Banker. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Youth and education in Denton, Texas; decision to join the Navy, February 3, 1944; boot training and electrical engineering school, San Diego, California, 1944; assignment to the…
  • His experiences as a paratrooper in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in Du Bois, Pennsylvania; attendance at Lock Haven State Teachers College, Pennsylvania; enlistment in the Army, February, 1942; basic training, Camp Croft,…
  • His service as an aviation officer for General Olinto Barsanti, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, in Vietnam, 1968-69. Pre-Vietnam reminiscences about Barsanti; his role in facilitating the transition of the 101st Airborne Division to the…
  • Her reminiscences as the wife of General Olinto Barsanti, 1942-1973. Their courtship in San Antonio; her coping with various assignments to Europe, Japan, and Washington, DC; child-raising; his activities in the Korean War; his promotion to general…
  • His recollections of the military service of his four brothers during World War II. His youth on the family farm near Van Alstyne, Texas, in the 1930s; comments about his parents; his brother “Bud’s” military experiences with the 6th Infantry…
  • His experiences as a B-24 pilot in the European theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. His youth during the Great Depression in Toledo, Ohio; college at the University of Toledo and Columbia University…
  • Test pilot, aviation executive, and Deputy Secretary of Defense. Childhood in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Illinois; work as a young man in the oil fields; family’s experience in the Great Depression; matriculation at Kansas University; enrollment in…
  • Army veteran (scout with the 99th Infantry Division). His experiences in the European Theater; experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in Stalag 17; post-war life.