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Abstract / Summary

This project began in 1980 with a grant from the Association of Former Students to interview alumni who became general officers and retired in Texas. Originally, it was entitled "Aggies to Generals". Interviews with the A&M generals are oral biographies and explore a number of issues: family life and early years, education at Texas A&M, Corps of Cadets, and ideas concerning leadership, women and blacks in the service, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and change in the military in recent U.S. history. The individual's military career is investigated in detail. Unless stated, Terry Anderson was the interviewer, and tapes are transcribed and open. During the mid-1980s, the project was expanded. Anderson and many of his students conducted interviews with numerous Vietnam veterans, and almost all have been transcribed and are open. Also see interviews listed under Vietnam Generation. In 1988, the Collection received a dozen tapes from the late Lt. Col. Jerome A. McDavitt, USA, a survivor of Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in the Philippines, 1942-1945. He sent questionnaires to about twenty survivors of Bataan and Corregidor and they recorded their testimonials in similar fashion in 1975. All participants discuss personal background, unit assignment, starvation, and conditions in the P.O.W. camps. Acoustical quality, and amount of information varies from fair to poor. None are transcribed and all are open.

Field of Interest

Letters and Diaries

Content Type

Oral history

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Publisher

Texas A&M University, College Station. Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. Special Collections

Place Published / Released

Texas

Subject

Letters and Diaries, History, Armed forces, War, World War II, 1939-1945, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Korean Conflict, 1950-1953, Corea, Coréia, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, Vietnã, Asia, College Station, TX, Europe, Korea (Historical Place), North America, Texas, United States, Vietnam

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Corea, Coréia, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, Vietnã