Interviewee | BARSANTI, Aletha (b. 1920) |
Interview ID # | OH 1482 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | 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; military protocol for the wives of general officers; his one-year tour in the Vietnam War as the commander of the 101st Airborne Division; his diagnosis of stomach cancer and his death, May, 1943. |
Interviewer(s) | Peter B. Lane, Ronald E. Marcello |
Physical Description | 110 pp. plus documents (3 pp.) |
Terms of Use | Open |