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Records 1-13 of 13 records

Item Number: OH0321 (Record 140216)

Title:

Interview with Michael O'Brien (by: Robert Tidwell) - August 13, 2003

Interview Date:

13 August 2003

Collection:

Michael O'Brien Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Digital)

Length:

53:38 min/sec

Description:

(USN) Michael L. O'Brien serevd in the U.S. Navy from 1944 until 1946. He was assigned to the USS Frank E. Evans while the ship was under construction. During his time aboard the Evans, he served as a radioman and witnessed a kamikaze attack.

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Citation:

Interview with Michael O'Brien, 13 August 2003, Michael O'Brien Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0321>.

Item Number: OH0012 (Record 38616)

Title:

Interview with James O'Kelley (by: Stephen Maxner) - August 4, 2000

Interview Date:

4 August 2000

Collection:

James O'Kelley Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Mini Disc)

Length:

8:36:49 hr/min/sec

Description:

USMC Interview coducted by Stephen Maxner

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Citation:

Interview with James O'Kelley, 4 August 2000, James O'Kelley Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0012>.

Item Number: OH0147 (Record 96704)

Title:

Interview with Jack O'Neil - September 16, 2002

Interview Date:

16 September 2002

Collection:

Jack O'Neil Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Mini Disc)

Length:

Length currently unknown

Description:

(USA) Interview conducted by Stephen Maxner.

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Citation:

Interview with Jack O'Neil, 16 September 2002, Jack O'Neil Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0147>.

Item Number: OH0350 (Record 168723)

Title:

Interview with Susan Kramer O'Neill (by: Laura M. Calkins, PhD) - March 15, 2004

Interview Date:

15 March 2004

Collection:

Susan Kramer O'Neill Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Digital)

Length:

2:01:30 hr/min/sec

Description:

(USA) Susan Kramer O'Neill was born in 1947 in Fort Wayne IN. She attended Holy Cross School of Nursing in Indiana and was briefly affiliated with "Youth for McCarthy" in 1968 before enlisting in the Army Nurse Corps. She completed Basic and Advanced Training at Fort Sam Houston TX, qualifying as an operating room nurse. Sue arrived in Vietnam in May 1969. She was assigned first to the 22nd Surgical Hospital at Phu Bai, then to the 27th Surgical Hospital at Chu Lai, and finally to the 12th Evacuation Hospital at Cu Chi. She extended her tour by one month, and left Vietnam in April 1970. Sue married Vietnam veteran Paul O'Neill and later attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she was active with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. She became a writer and editor, publishing a book on her in-country experiences in 2001. I

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Citation:

Interview with Susan Kramer O'Neill, 15 March 2004, Susan Kramer O'Neill Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0350>.

Item Number: OH0636 (Record 425451)

Title:

Interview with Van Odell (by: Jason Stewart) - September 9, 2008

Interview Date:

9 September 2008

Collection:

Van Odell Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Digital)

Length:

02:49:54 hr/min/sec

Description:

Van Odell served as a gunner on a swiftboat with Coastal Task Force 115 in An Thoi, South Vietnam from January 1969 until January 1970.

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Citation:

Interview with Van Odell, 9 September 2008, Van Odell Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0636>.

Item Number: OH0503 (Record 331837)

Title:

Interview with Camille Geoghegan Olsen - November 12, 2005

Interview Date:

12 November 2005

Collection:

Camille Geoghegan Olsen Collection (Pleiku-Ia Drang Veterans Collection)

Media Type:

Oral History (BetaSP)

Length:

37:19 min/sec

Description:

Interview conducted by Richard B. Verrone, Ph.D.

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Citation:

Interview with Camille Geoghegan Olsen, 12 November 2005, Camille Geoghegan Olsen Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0503>.

Item Number: OHD0028 (Record 495370)

Title:

Interview with Eldon W. Olson (by: Clayton Russell) - March 22, 2010

Interview Date:

22 March 2010

Collection:

Donated Oral Histories

Media Type:

Oral History (Digital)

Length:

06:07:49 min/sec

Description:

Eldon Olson served as an E-3 in HQ Company, 1st/14th/3rd Brigade/25th Infantry Division, September 1966 to September 1967.

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Citation:

Interview with Eldon W. Olson, 22 March 2010, Donated Oral Histories, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OHD0028>.

Item Number: USMC0004 (Record 122512)

Title:

Interview with J. B. Ord, Jr. - November 3, 1969

Interview Date:

03 November 1969

Collection:

US Marine Corps History Division Oral History Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Digital)

Length:

00:55:36 min/sec

Description:

USMC Colonel Ord discusses his observations in a debriefing concerning the MAF program, Operations Taylor Common, Oklahoma Hills, Pipestone Canyon, in the Go Noi Island area and Que Son province.

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Citation:

Interview with J. B. Ord, Jr., 03 November 1969, US Marine Corps History Division Oral History Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=USMC0004>.

Item Number: OH0521 (Record 340412)

Title:

Interview with Robert Ordonez (by: Richard B. Verrone, PhD) - March 22, 2006

Interview Date:

22 March 2006

Collection:

Robert Ordonez Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Digital)

Length:

4:03:09 hr/min/sec

Description:

Dr. Robert Ordonez discusses his experiences as a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam.

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Citation:

Interview with Robert Ordonez, 22 March 2006, Robert Ordonez Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0521>.

Item Number: OH0210 (Record 93906)

Title:

Interview with Alan Osur (by: Stephen Maxner) - February 18, 2002

Interview Date:

18 February 2002

Collection:

Alan Osur Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Mini Disc)

Length:

03:21:51 hr/min/sec

Description:

(USAF) Alan Osur served with the United States Air Force in Thailand from October 1966 to October 1967. He served as an Air Intelligence Officer with the 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in Udorn, Thailand.

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Citation:

Interview with Alan Osur, 18 February 2002, Alan Osur Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0210>.

Item Number: OH0362 (Record 185905)

Title:

Interview with Edwin L. Oswald (by: Laura M. Calkins, PhD) - April 1, 2004

Interview Date:

01 April 2004

Collection:

Edwin L. Oswald Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Digital)

Length:

9:42:59 hr/min/sec

Description:

(USN) Edwin L. ('Larry') Oswald was born in Savannah GA in 1945, and graduated from Benedictine High School there in 1963. Larry held a Navy ROTC scholarship at Rice University, and after graduating in 1967 he attended the Navy Supply Corps School at Athens GA. In March 1968 he was assigned to Naval Support Activity (NSA), Saigon, and then as Supply Officer on YRBM-16. He aided in the refitting of the craft in Sasebo, Japan, and accompanied it to its mooring near Chau Doc, where he remained until leaving Vietnam in February 1969. He was assigned to El Toro Naval Base CA, where he was on the security detail for Air Force One. He left the Navy in 1971 as a Lieutenant. In 1988 Larry went to the Soviet Union as part of a delegation of Vietnam veterans advising on the adjustment of Red Army veterans after the USSR's war in Afghanistan.

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Citation:

Interview with Edwin L. Oswald, 01 April 2004, Edwin L. Oswald Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0362>.

Item Number: OH0234 (Record 104113)

Title:

Interview with Gerard Otten - November 4, 2002

Interview Date:

04 November 2002

Collection:

Gerard Otten Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Mini Disc)

Length:

02:05:51 min/sec

Description:

(USAF) Gerard L. Otten, originally from Passaic, New Jersey, served in the U.S. Air Force in 1969 and 1970. In Vietnam, Jerry was assigned to HQ MACV Training Director, Advisory Team 62, near Thon Son Nhut AB, Saigon, and was an English Language Instructor for the South Vietnamese Air Force. Interview conducted by Richard B. Verrone, Ph.D.

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Citation:

Interview with Gerard Otten, 04 November 2002, Gerard Otten Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0234>.

Item Number: OH0364 (Record 186376)

Title:

Interview with James Overman (by: Laura M. Calkins, PhD) - June 4, 2004

Interview Date:

04 June 2004

Collection:

James Overman Collection

Media Type:

Oral History (Digital)

Length:

3:23:50 hr/min/sec

Description:

(USAF, CIA) James King Overman was born in 1933 in Wisconsin, where he attended St. John's Military Academy. He enlisted in the US Air Force at age 18, and after training as a mechanic he qualified for pilot training. Jim was commissioned in April 1954 at Goodfellow AFB, and he flew B-26 aircraft on patrols of the 38th Parallel in Korea 1954-55. He was based in Japan at Itami AFB 1955-56 and at Reese AFB 1956-69 before spending six years as an instructor in the Training Command at Randolph AFB. During 1965-67 he was assigned to the 817 Troop Carrier Squadron, Naha AB, Okinawa, with TDY postings to Danang and Ubon, Thailand. He flew 'Blind Bat' missions as a night forward air controller over the DMZ and North Vietnam. During 1970-71, as part of the 16th SOS, he flew nighttime interdiction missions over Laos and South Vietnam in AC-130 gunships, as well as High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) flights and a bombing mission over Cambodia. At his retirement from active duty in 1972 Jim was one of the most highly decorated Native American pilots in US Air Force history. During the 1970s and 1980s Jim flew on a contract basis for the Central Intelligence Agency, including evacuation flights from Phnom Penh, Danang, and Saigon in 1975, cargo flights in Angola in the mid-1980s, and training flights for Saudi pilots in Saudi Arabia in 1988.

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Citation:

Interview with James Overman, 04 June 2004, James Overman Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0364>.