Title: Fay Brackett Settle Oral History Interview

Identifier: OH0081   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/62793)

Description: She describes experiences as the wife of a naval officer--Admiral Thomas G. W. Settle including service aboard airships (1924-1929), his participation in balloon races and experiments in lighter-than-air travel, as well as her own experiences in airship travel. She also describes life in China and the Far East while her husband was assigned to various commands within the Asiatic Fleet (1934-1938, 1945-1946). Other commentary concerns her life during World War II, residence at Newport, R.I., travel to and living in Turkey, her husband's duty in New Orleans with the 8th Naval District, in San Diego with the Pacific Fleet, and in Norway prior to his retirement in 1957. - February 20, 1986; July 11, 1986