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Identifier
Title
Date
Description
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62511
OH0018
Tobacco History Symposium Oral History Interviews
1974 and 1975
Sessions for 1974 on "Tobacco's Impact Upon Towns and Town Life in North Carolina" and for 1975 on "The Tobacco Export Trade and Its Impact Upon the North Carolina Area" were recorded.
QC2: Order is correct, BB - QC; tapes scanned out of order. JB -> Of the 10 interviews listed on the 6 cassettes only the following still need to be digitized: Dr. Durwood T. Stokes, Dr. G. Melvin Herndon, Dr. Robert Durden, Nannie May Tilley, and William S. Humphries.
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62512
OH0019
Vietnam Oral History Interviews
August 31, 1974
In August 1974, Captain Ashby D. Elmore and 1st Lieutenant Steven D. Ellis, U.S. Air Force, undertook a series of interviews with officers and enlisted men who served with them in Vietnam.
1 cassette
3
62513
OH0029
John Conner Atkeson, Sr., Oral History Interview
November 29, 1975; March 30, 1976
John Conner Atkeson, Sr. (b. Sept. 11, 1905), entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. He served in the South Atlantic (Panama, Cuba, and Nicaragua; 1927-1939) and was a destroyer commander in both the Pacific and Atlantic during World War II. Following the war he served in the Mediterranean and then as head of the Navy's division of the Military Advisory Group. Heavily decorated during World War II, Atkeson retired as a rear admiral in 1957.
3 cassettes
4
62514
OH0034
Louis Poisson Davis, Sr., Oral History Interview
July 15, 1976; May 26, 1976
Captain Davis discusses his career from graduation at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1905 through retirement in 1946.
3 cassettes
5
62515
OH0038
Karl E. Faser Oral History Interview
January 18, 1977; January 19, 1977
Colonel Faser discusses his career as a Marine Corps officer, especially World War II activities in the South Pacific. Commentaries concern New Zealand, Guadalcanal, New Gloucester, Russell Islands, Palalu, and training in Australia. Also included are reminiscences of duty in Korea (1950-1952), Japan, and stateside duty at Quantico and Camp Lejeune.
1 cassette