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Tagged with "Military Service"

  • OH 0877
    His experiences as a cryptanalyst during World War II. U.S. Naval Academy, 1930-34. Qualities of a good cryptanalyst; Japanese language training in Tokyo, 1939-40; evacuation from Tokyo, August, 1941; assignment to HYPO, Pearl Harbor; impressions of…
  • OH 0884
    His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1971. Psychiatric casualties at Long Binh; heroin detoxification center at Cam Ranh Bay.
  • OH 0890
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Central and North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 859 in Buffalo Pasture (BF-2) near Cache, Oklahoma; company move to Bitter…
  • OH 0896
    His experiences at Fort Shafter with the 9th Signal Service Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
  • OH 0897
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Westbrook and Dublin, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 849 at SP-36 at Lake Brownwood, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
  • OH 0898
    His experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Nursing school at Lubbock Methodist Hospital, 1955; enlistment in Army, 1969, and anesthesia training at Fitzsimons general Hospital, Denver, Colorado; assignment to Vietnam, 1969; 95th Evacuation…
  • OH 0904
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Weatherford, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1816 at Lake Worth, Texas; transfer to a camp at Mackenzie State Park near Lubbock…
  • OH 0911
    Member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942-43; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-…
  • OH 0915
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Ranger, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to F-8-N at Sandia Park near Albuquerque, New Mexico; camp move to Monticello, New Mexico;…
  • OH 0934
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in South Carolina; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1417 near Rodman, South Carolina; company move to Lancaster, South Carolina;…
  • OH 0936
    His experiences aboard LST-446 during the Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942-43; participation in the landings on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Vella Lavella, and Bougainville; Marianas campaign and landings at Saipan and Guam, 1944.
  • OH 0940
    His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1968-70. Assignment to 22nd Surgical Medical Battalion, Chu Lai; treatment of battle casualties and illnesses; camp life; treatment of civilian casualties and illnesses; lasting effects of Vietnam…
  • OH 0941
    His experiences while aboard the cruiser San Francisco during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
  • OH 0945
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in New Jersey; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1226 at Camp S-71 (72F-22-NJ) in Stokes State Forest near Branchville, New Jersey;…
  • OH 0953
    His experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Assignment to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh; treatment of endemic diseases; assignment to emergency room; triaging of patients; living conditions; drug addicts; battle casualties; medical…
  • OH 0955
    His experiences as a naval officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. New York State Merchant Marine Academy, 1941; assignment to USS Sheridan (APA-51); Tarawa landing, 1943; Marshall Islands landings, 1944; Saipan landing, 1944; assignment…
  • OH 0957
    His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to 2nd Marine Division; landings on Gavutu and Tanambogo in Florida Islands; Tarawa landing; Marianas campaign and Tinian landing.
  • OH 0961
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Gordon, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 878 in Waxahachie, Texas; transfer to Company 2896 at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas…
  • OH 0975
    His experiences at Kaneohe Naval Air Station with VP-14 during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
  • OH 0982
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1814 at Camp G-136-A in Duncan, Arizona; company move to Camp G-173-A in Fredonia,…
  • OH 0996
    His experiences in the Battle of Midway and his role as a fighter pilot; Guadalcanal operations, August-November, 1942; shot down over water, November, 1942; assignment to Vella Lavella and fighter sweeps over Rabaul; postwar activities as a test…
  • OH 0998
    His experiences in the Pacific Theater as a combat pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. Fall of Singapore; Guadalcanal operations; air combat against Japanese Zeros; release from duty, December 1943.
  • OH 1001
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Pauline, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a forestry camp near Flagstaff, Arizona; reenlistment to Company 4842 at DG-41-N in Lake…
  • OH 1006
    His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Central Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1803 at F-4-T near Ratcliff, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
  • OH 1019
    Her recollections while employed by the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Arkansas during World War II and the postwar years. Employment procedures; job assignments; swing shift; wartime rationing; safety procedures; housing; social activities; race…