Louis Hudson: Interview
- Date
2005-11-16
- Main contributor
Hudson, Louis
- Summary
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Louis Hudson, U.S. Army, World War II (A&M Class of '44) (Interviewed Nov. 15, 2005) Texas A&M sophomore Louis Hudson was sitting in the campus theater when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Indeed the theater manager came out to tell the patrons about the attack that started the U.S. involvement in World War II. Louis Hudson was a paratrooper who got his training at Fort Benning, Georgia. His career included jumping over the lines during Normandy into St Mere Eglise and later as a paratrooper, part of the US mission Operations Market Garden. His is truly a remarkable story.
- Contributors
KAMU-TV (Television station : College Station, Tex.); Turbiville, Tom
- Genres
MovingImage; interview; Oral histories
- Subjects
Hudson, Louis; Veterans--United States--Interviews; United States. Army; United States. Army; World War, 1939-1945; Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas--Alumni and alumnae
- Collection
Veterans of the Valley
- Unit
Collections
- Language
English
- Terms of Use
In copyright-educational use permitted; For more information, see http://rightsstatementsorg/vocab/InC-EDU/10/
- Notes
Items in this collection were donated to Cushing Memorial Library and Archives in 2017 by Tom Turbiville
Creation/Production Credits
From "Veterans of the Valley," a television series created by host Tom Turbiville and produced at KAMU-TV’s studio on the Texas A&M University, College Station campus
Local Note
reformatted digital
- Other Identifier
Catalog Key: 03-VOTV-Hudson_Louis-video
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.