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Oral History Interview with Aletha Barsanti, January 17, 2003

Description: Interview with Aletha Barsanti regarding her experiences as the wife of U. S. Army General Olinto Barsanti. They married in 1942. She remembers their courtship in San Antonio; their assignments in Europe, Japan, and Washington, D.C.; raising their children; his activities in the Korean War; his promotion to general; military protocol for the wives of general officers; and his one-year tour in the Vietnam War as the commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer a… more
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Date: January 17, 2003
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Barsanti, Aletha
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Oral History Interview with Benjamin B. Luong, March 15, 2021

Description: Interview with Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm Lương, a chef from Dallas, Texas who studied at the Culinary Institute of America. Benjamin discusses the background of his Vietnamese parents, the Vietnam War, politics, his father's education in the United States, and his own personal journey to becoming a chef.
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Date: March 15, 2021
Creator: Bridges-Jacobsen, Lauren & Luong, Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm
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Oral History Interview with Charles Leroy "Lee" Smith, December 20, 2018

Description: Transcript of an interview with Charles Leroy "Lee" Smith, U.S. Air Force veteran and private pilot. Smith recounts his experiences at the University of Alabama and in the US Air Force, Flight School at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX, and Basic Training in Mississippi. He speaks of his assignments in Keflavik, Iceland, Red Bluff, CA, and NORAD Sector as Captain in electronics and communications. He was Certified for the F-102 at Perrin Air Force Base, Sherman, TX. He tells of his ex… more
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Date: December 20, 2018
Creator: Ferguson, J. Michael & Smith, Lee (Charles Leroy), 1932-
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Oral History Interview with Darwin McMillan, September 16, 1985

Description: Interview with Darwin "Mac" McMillan, a long-term employee of Caltex from California, discussing his background, employment with Texaco and Standard Oil, the history of Caltex and his work as an executive there, his various assignment experiences in China the Philippines, Germany, India, and South Africa, and the oil market.
Date: September 16, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
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Oral History Interview with Harry Strawn, August 16, 1997

Description: Transcript of an interview with Harry C. Strawn, Army Air Forces veteran (31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force; and 413th Fighter Group, 14th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a fighter pilot in the European, Mediterranean, and Pacific Theaters during World War II. Appendix includes the introduction to "In a now forgotten sky: the 31st fighter group in WW2" by Dennis C. Kucera.
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Date: August 16, 1997
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Strawn, Harry C., 1918-
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Oral History Interview with Herbert M. Fish, July 31, 1985

Description: Interview with Herbert M. Fish, an executive at Caltex Petroleum Corporation from Boston, Massachusetts. Fish discusses his time working at Shell Oil during the Depression, experience in the U.S. Army, his duties at Caltex, marketing with Chinese agents and visiting China, dealing with Japanese executives, and Caltex European operations.
Date: August 31, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Fish, Herbert M.
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Oral History Interview with Hollis G. Duell, May 22, 1996

Description: Interview with Hollis G. Duell, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarine USS Sargo in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Assignment to the Sargo, 1941; his responsibilities as a yeoman; early war patrols off the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines; transfer to the Submarine Division Commander's Office, Pearl harbor, 1944; postwar duty in the Submarine Service.
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Date: May 22, 1996
Creator: Maglaughlin, Barry & Duell, Hollis G.
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Oral History Interview with Inga Pennock, January 27, 1990

Description: Interview with Inga Pennock, a Holocaust survivor from Berlin. Pennock discusses her family background, experiencing antisemitism and the start of Nazi rule, trying to leave Germany and hiding, increasing violence, Kristallnacht, losing family, fleeing to Shanghai, Japanese occupation and the ghetto, working as a nurse for the Japanese, living conditions, liberation, and life afterwards.
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Date: January 27, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Pennock, Inga
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Oral History Interview with William Tucker, September 25, 1985

Description: Interview with William Tucker, a business executive from Boston, regarding his experiences working for Caltex Petroleum Corporation, their refinery construction and expansion during World War II and after the war, the oil industry, and Caltex in India, Australia, Germany, Japan, Korea, and South Africa.
Date: September 25, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Tucker, William
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