Oral histories
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Billy Gean Ellis, 2002 October 26
Oral history interview with Daryl Lester Tennal, Jr., 2003 February 27
Tennal recalls his experiences as a Marine assigned to duty in the Pacific region during World War II. He describes his early days in the Marine Corps and becoming a member of the Marine Corps Band. He also details many of the battles and offenses he participated in while fighting the Japanese on islands in the South Pacific, including Guadalcanal, the Solomon Islands and Guam, and the effects of the malaria he contracted while stationed there.
Oral history interview with Elizabeth "Bette" Saunders, 1992-1993
Oral history interview with Florence Beeman Campbell, Louise Beeman Hier, 2001
Oral history interview with Gerald L. Cronan, 2003 May 14
Oral history interview with H. Douglas Barker, 2003 April 3
Barker highlights his appointment to and his experiences at the Annapolis Naval Academy. He recalls his first official Navy appointment as staff in the Naval Submarine School, and subsequent duties such as his involvement in submarine operations in the Mediterranean following the Cuban Missile Crisis and as officer-in-charge of the Holy Loch [Scotland] submarine base. Barker presents a survey of life on a submarine and what it was like to be a submariner.