Engineer. His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Wyoming, light cruiser USS Boise, and submarine USS Mackerel during World War II. His pre-war education and employment; enlistment in the Navy, July 8, 1942; boot camp at Great Lakes,…
Landscape architect. His experience as a member of PRISIC in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Educational background including graduation from Kansas State University with a degree in landscape architecture; commissioning as a U.S. Navy…
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. His volunteering for the draft, 1943; assignment to Burma, 1944; attachment to Merrill’s Marauders (5307th Composite Unit [Provisional]); combat around Myitkyina, Burma, 1944;…
Businessman. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Pre-war education and farming activities in Olney, Texas; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, c. 1941; assignment to Chanute Field, Illinois, c. 1941-42; Officer…
Attorney. His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Induction into the Army, April, 1943; Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1943-44; selection for the Counter Intelligence Corps, 1944; British Intelligence…
His experiences as an officer in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth during the Great Depression; ROTC at Texas A&M College and commissioning as a second lieutenant in the cavalry; ordered to active duty with the 1st…
Farmer. His experiences aboard the escort carrier USS Kadashan Bay in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His rural background in West Texas; his decision to join the Navy, in 1943; boot camp and fireman’s school, San Diego, California, 1943;…
Accountant. His experiences in the European Theater during World War II. His youth in an Italian immigrant family in Tonopah, Nevada; his early job selling newspapers while in school; graduation from high school and enrollment at Woodbury College,…
His experiences as a radar technician in the U.S. Air Force during the Cold War years. Early family life; decision to join the U.S. Army Air Forces, 1946; training as a bulldozer operator; removal of radioactive debris from Hiroshima, 1946-47;…
Former commander-in-chief of Strategic Air Command (SAC). His experiences and association with General Curtis LeMay. LeMay’s uncanny judgment; LeMay’s handling of people in his command; LeMay’s penchant for discipline; the Soviet military’s…
His reminiscences about his association with General Curtis LeMay. Bomber operations against Japan, and Japanese occupied territory, 1944-45; LeMay’s role in formulating strategic bombing tactics in the Pacific Theater; his assignment with the…
Architect. His impressions of General Curtis LeMay in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His assignment to Saipan, Mariana Islands, for bombing operations against the Japanese homeland, December, 1944; failures of the 58th Bomb Wing in the CBI…
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…
His experiences in combat in Philippines during World War II; presence in Yokohama Harbor during Japanese surrender; and in Tokyo during post-war U. S. occupation of Japan.
Childhood and early adulthood in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. World War II-era Army Air Corps training in armaments and electronics. Stateside service in 303rd Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force; aviation cadet training; service as a B…
Childhood and early adulthood in Houston, Texas; education at Rice Institute. World War II-era service in U.S. Navy aboard the USS Turner; convoy missions across the Atlantic Ocean; January 4, 1944, sinking of the Turner while moored in New York…
For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Instructor for Outward Bound wilderness program in Redford, Texas. Experiences growing up in Midwest; love of outdoors; career in Peace Corps; interactions with people of Redford; opinions…
Childhood experiences in upstate New York, including Depression-era economy; education at Cornell University; drafting into the U.S. Army Infantry and service at several stateside bases; transfer to Cavalry and combat in Pacific Theater; memories of…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Memories of childhood and education in Shreveport, Louisiana; drafting into U.S. Army and assignment to an air base security battalion; overseas service in Pacific theater; enrollment at…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood and early education in rural Northwest Illinois; enlistment in Army Air Forces; training as aviation cadet and service at various stateside bases; combat experience in Pacific…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in Carrizo Springs and Corpus Christi, Texas; military experiences of various family members; enlistment in U.S. Army, 1960; basic training at Fort Knox; assignment to tank unit in…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam War veteran. Childhood in Brook Park, Ohio; decisions to drop out of high school and to enlist in the U.S. Army; basic training at Ft. McClellan, Ala.,; clerical training; assignment…
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…
