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1. Bill Harper: Interview (29:40)

Date:
2009-10-10
Main contributors:
Harper, Bill
Summary:
Bill Harper, Operation Ivy, Post WW II (Interviewed Oct. 10, 2010) Bill Harper does not have any real war stories to tell from his two hitches and more than five years in military service, but the ...

2. C.O. Smith: Interview (29:01)

Date:
2009-03-05
Main contributors:
Smith, C. O.
Summary:
C.O. Smith, U.S. Coast Guard, Korea (Interviewed March 5, 2009) C.O. Smith, Texas A&M Class of 1950, is proud of the role that the United States Coast Guard played in World War II. On board the Coa...

3. Carl Huss: Interview (28:59)

Date:
2009-06-04
Main contributors:
Huss, Carl
Summary:
Carl Huss, Army Air Corps, WW II (Interviewed June 4, 2009) Carl Huss joined the Army Air Corp before US involvement in World War II started with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was just looking to...

4. Charles Smith: Interview (28:24)

Date:
2009-07-16
Main contributors:
Smith, Charles
Summary:
Charles Smith, U.S. Army, Vietnam (Interviewed July 16, 2009) Charles Smith grew up in Bryan and graduated from E.A. Kemp in 1960. He served 20 years in the U.S. Army and 22 years with the Postal S...

5. Dale Jackson: Interview (28:48)

Date:
2009-02-12
Main contributors:
Jackson, Dale
Summary:
Dale Jackson, U.S. Army, WW II (Interviewed Feb. 12, 2009) Soon after Dale Jackson entered the Army at Age 18, he was shipped off to Omaha, Nebraska for Ordnance Repair School, learning how to fix ...

6. David West: Interview (28:27)

Date:
2009-11-19
Main contributors:
West, David
Summary:
David West, U.S. Navy, Vietnam (Interviewed Nov. 19, 2009) David West joined the Navy and started out chasing hurricanes from 1956 to 1958. Later he says as a Navy Seal he was wounded in Vietnam bu...

7. Frank Buell: Interview (29:43)

Date:
2009-02-05
Main contributors:
Buell, Frank
Summary:
Frank Buell, U.S. Navy, WW II (Interviewed Feb. 5, 2009) World War II, of course, was fought primarily in Europe and the Pacific, but there was never any guarantee that the enemy from either side w...

8. Gordon Kennedy: Interview (28:21)

Date:
2009-01-29
Main contributors:
Kennedy, Gordon
Summary:
Gordon Kennedy, U.S. Army, Korea/Vietnam (Interviewed Jan. 29, 2009) ​Gordon Kennedy had seen a lot of the world during his 31 years of military service. Service that included a 15-month tour durin...

9. H.J. Marsh: Interview (27:50)

Date:
2009-06-25
Main contributors:
Marsh, H. J.
Summary:
H.J. Marsh, U.S. Army, WW II/Korea (Interviewed June 25, 2009) H.J. Marsh considered his timing quite fortunate. A 1945 high school graduate of San Jacinto High School, by the time he joined the Ar...

10. James Wade: Interview (28:34)

Date:
2009-08-06
Main contributors:
Wade, James
Summary:
James Wade, U.S. Army, WW II (Interviewed Aug.6, 2009) James Wade arrived in Europe and there was only two more months of fighting and left in World War II. But in that short time, plus the time he...