| Interviewee | HOE, Robert (b. 1922) |
| Professions | engineer, nuclear physicist |
| Military Service | U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, Sino-American Cooperative Organization |
| Interview ID # | OH 1525 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Engineer, nuclear physicist. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Pre-war education at the University of Rochester; enlistment in the Navy, July, 1943; midshipman’s school, Columbia University, 1943-44; volunteering for training with Navy Scouts, Raiders, and Underwater Demolition Teams, Fort Pierce, Florida, 1944; assignment to China as a part of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, 1944; assignment to Camp 6 behind Japanese lines near Amoy; training of Chinese for guerrilla warfare and underwater demolitions; aborted raid on Wosu Island; harassment of Japanese troops; coastwatching activities; collecting meteorological data; comments about General Tai Li, chief of the Chinese Nationalist intelligence service and head of SACO; postwar education and work in various nuclear reactor programs. |
| Interviewer(s) | William J. Alexander |
| Physical Description | 44 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
