Item Number: OH0064 (Record 36626)
Title: Interview with William Anderson (by: Stephen Maxner) - September 1, 2001
Interview Date: 1 September 2001
Collection: William Anderson Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Mini Disc)
Length: 01:12:50 hr/min/sec
Description: (USAF) William Anderson was born in Meadville, PA. He enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1951 and served as a F-86 Gun-sight mechanic until 1952 when he entered pilot training. He graduated and received his commission as a 2LT in September 1953. After serving as an instructor pilot for three years, Anderson served in SAC and transitioned to the B-47 and was subsequently selected for B-52 training. In 1967, he received his orders for service in Southeast Asia and transitioned to the F100, O-1, and O-2. Anderson served in Vietnam from March 1968 to March 1969. His assignments included Assistant Division Air Liaison Officer for the Americal Division, Air Liaison Officer and site commander for the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, and served with the 20th TASS. His Areas of Operation included Chu Lai and Duc Pho where he conducted over 350 combat missions (over 760 combat flying hours) in the O-2 and various helicopters.
Citation: Interview with William Anderson, 1 September 2001, William Anderson Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0064>.
Item Number: OH0308 (Record 132603)
Title: Interview with Gary Blinn
Collection: Gary Blinn Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Mini Disc)
Length: Length currently unknown
Description: (USN) Gary R. Blinn, originally from Valentine, Nebraska served in the U.S. Navy from 1967 until 1970. A 1966 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Gary served in Southeast Asia, beginning in 1967, aboard the USS Benjamin Stoddard in Operation SEA DRAGON and then in Operation MARKET TIME as a Patrolcraft Fast (PCF) captain in the Mekong Delta as a member of Coastal Division 13 based out of Cat Lo and Coastal Division 15 based our of Cam Ranh Bay until May 1968. Interview conducted by Richard B. Verrone, Ph.D.
Citation: Interview with Gary Blinn, No Date, Gary Blinn Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0308>.
Item Number: OH0153 (Record 35908)
Title: Interview with Robert Beau Garcia - March 26, 2001
Interview Date: 26 March 2001
Collection: Robert Beau Garcia Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Mini Disc)
Description: (USA) Beau Garcia served with the United States Army in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971. He served as an Army riverboat crewman and .50 caliber machine gunner on Boat YFU-81, with the 329th Transportation Company (HvBt), 5th Transportation Command. He participated in various missions to include ammunition re-supply missions along the Cua Viet River to Dong Ha and down the Perfume River. Interview conducted by Stephen Maxner.
Citation: Interview with Robert Beau Garcia, 26 March 2001, Robert Beau Garcia Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0153>.
Item Number: OH0377 (Record 202346)
Title: Interview with Tony Gleaton (by: Richard B. Varrone, PhD) - August 19, 2004
Interview Date: 19 August 2004
Collection: Tony Gleaton Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Digital)
Length: 3:24:53 hr/min/sec
Description: (USMC) Tony Gleaton, originally from Detroit, Michigan, served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1967 until 1970. While based at Camp Hansen in Okinawa before deploying to South Vietnam, Tony volunteered to go to Khe Sanh in the middle of the siege. Upon exiting the aircraft upon landing, he was wounded by a mortar and evacuated to Japan for recovery. Once recovered, Tony went to the RVN in May 1968 and served first as the Battalion commander's radioman for 1st Battalion, 1st Marines in I Corps until July and then as a ground Forward Air Controller attached to Alpha Company, 1/4 Marines, until November 1968 when he left Vietnam. Today, Tony is a world renowned photographer whose books and exhibits have helped expose the world of the minority peoples of the western United States and the people of Mexico and Central and South America.
Citation: Interview with Tony Gleaton, 19 August 2004, Tony Gleaton Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0377>.
Item Number: OH0030 (Record 35579)
Title: Interview with Michael Harris - August 22, 2000
Interview Date: 22 August 2000
Collection: Michael Harris Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Mini Disc)
Length: Length currently unknown
Description: (USN) Michael Harris served with the United States Navy in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969. He served as a radioman and machine gunner with Task Force 117 of the Mobile Riverine Force. Interview conducted by Stephen Maxner.
Citation: Interview with Michael Harris, 22 August 2000, Michael Harris Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0030>.
Item Number: OH0374 (Record 202102)
Title: Interview with Charles Julienne (by: Laura M. Calkins, PhD) - August 5, 2004
Interview Date: 05 August 2004
Collection: Charles Julienne Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Digital)
Length: Length currently unknown
Description: (USN) Charles Julienne was born in Hayward CA in 1933. He enlisted in the Navy in 1952, completing Basic Training and the Navy's Dental Technician School in San Diego. He also trained at the Dental Prosthetic Technician School at San Diego and then served at the Dental Clinic, Camp Pendleton, and at the Marine Corps Base dental clinic at Barstow CA. In 1956 he entered the Naval Reserves, completed his undergraduate and dental degrees, and was commissioned in the Navy in 1963. As an active duty dental officer Charles was posted to Newfoundland and in 1965-67 to NAS Virginia Beach VA, where he worked to get A-6 squadron personnel 'dental ready' for service in Vietnam. In 1967 Charles was assigned to the USS Tutuila and deployed to Vietnam, first based at An Thoi and later at Vung Tau. He regularly participated in MEDCAPs programs with Vietnamese civilians. Charles remained with the US Navy until his retirement in 1988. Since 1990 he has been a faculty member at the Dental School, University of Southern California.
Citation: Interview with Charles Julienne, 05 August 2004, Charles Julienne Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0374>.
Item Number: OH0305 (Record 127794)
Title: Interview with Charles Lloyd (by: Richard Burks Verrone, PhD) - May 28, 2003
Interview Date: 28 May 2003
Collection: Charles Lloyd Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Digital)
Length: 2:33:10 hr/min/sec
Description: (USN) Charles Lloyd, originally from Atlantic City, New Jersey served in the U.S. Navy from July 1963 until September 1967. Charles went to South Vietnam in September 1965 with Patrol Craft Fast (PCF) 101 based at Phu Quoc Island. He patrolled around the island and the far southwestern coastal area of the country. Charles was evacuated in April 1966 after being wounded in a mine attack.
Citation: Interview with Charles Lloyd, 28 May 2003, Charles Lloyd Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0305>.
Item Number: OH0156 (Record 38275)
Title: Interview with Russell McDonald (by: Stephen Maxner) - April 4, 2001
Interview Date: 4 April 2001
Collection: Russell McDonald, Sr. Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Digital)
Length: 2:16:52 hr/min/sec
Description: (USN) Russell McDonald served with the United States Navy off the coast of Vietnam from 1965 to 1969. He served as a boson's mate and ship serviceman on the USS Montrose and USS Seminole.
Citation: Interview with Russell McDonald, 4 April 2001, Russell McDonald, Sr. Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0156>.
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.
Citation: Interview with Edwin L. Oswald, 01 April 2004, Edwin L. Oswald Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0362>.
Item Number: OH0497 (Record 324217)
Title: Interview with Gerald M. Sampont (by: Richard B. Verrone, PhD) - January 19, 2006
Interview Date: 19 January 2006
Collection: Gerald Sampont Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Digital)
Length: 6:12:43 hr/min/sec
Citation: Interview with Gerald M. Sampont, 19 January 2006, Gerald Sampont Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0497>.
Item Number: OH0410 (Record 238202)
Title: Interview with John Sylvester Jr. (by: Laura M. Calkins, PhD) - July 19, 2004
Interview Date: 19 July 2004
Collection: John Sylvester Jr. Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Digital)
Length: Length currently unknown
Description: (Civilian) John Sylvester Jr. was born in Newport RI in 1930, and graduated from Williams College in 1952. He enlisted in the US Army and served in Korea before attending Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, earning a BS in 1955. John joined the US Foreign Service in 1955, and was posted to Yokohama, Japan. He studied Japanese in Tokyo and was assigned to the US Embassy, Tokyo (1960-62), and was also US Consul at Sapporo (1963-65). At the State Department (1965-7) John worked on Japan and Thailand, and served on Robert Komer's staff at the White House. He then studied Vietnamese, and arrived in Vietnam in August 1968 as an adviser in Chau Doc and Kien Giang. In 1969-70 John was Provincial Senior Adviser in Binh Long province, and 1970-72 he was Chief, Internal Political Affairs Unit, US Embassy Saigon. John's later career included assignments as US Consul General, Okinawa (1973-76) and work in the State Department' s Office of Research and Analysis, East Asia (1976-78) and as Assistant Deputy Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1978-80). John retired from the Foreign Service in 1980, and became the founding director of the Japan Center at North Carolina State University (1981-95).
Citation: Interview with John Sylvester Jr., 19 July 2004, John Sylvester Jr. Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0410>.
Item Number: OH0430 (Record 413640)
Title: Interview with Patricia A. Warner (by: Laura M. Calkins, PhD) - June 28, 2005
Interview Date: 28 June 2005
Collection: Patricia A. Warner Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Digital)
Length: 6:16:55 hr/min/sec
Description: In this interview Commander Patricia Warner describes her experiences as a Navy Nurse. Warner's career which spanned from the 1950s to the 1980's included a tour aboard the USS Sanctuary, a hospital ship based off the coast of Da Nang.
Citation: Interview with Patricia A. Warner, 28 June 2005, Patricia A. Warner Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0430>.
Item Number: OH0433 (Record 283247)
Title: Interview with John Yuill (by: Laura M. Calkins, PhD) - October 12, 2004
Interview Date: 12 October 2004
Collection: John Yuill Collection
Media Type: Oral History (Digital)
Length: Length currently unknown
Description: (USAF) John Yuill was born in Boswell IN in 1934, and enlisted in the Air Force at the age of 19. After Basic Training at Lackland AFB TX and Advanced Training at the Navigation School, Harlingen AFB TX, John was commissioned in 1955. He served with the Ferry Command until 1958, when he undertook pilot training at Bainbridge GA and Enid OK, and advanced pilot training at Perrin AFB TX. In 1960 he joined the Strategic Air Command as a bomber pilot, flying all SAC aircraft including the B-58 and B-52. John flew from SAC bases at Altus AFB OK and Grissom AFB IN before his two Vietnam tours: 1970-71 flying C-130 aircraft from Ton Son Nhut, and 1972 flying B-52 aircraft from Guam and Utapao, Thailand. John's B-52 was shot down over North Vietnam during Linebacker II, and he was held as a POW in Hanoi until his release in March 1973. John retired as a Lieutenant Colonel, and remains active with POW and USAF veterans' organizations.
Citation: Interview with John Yuill, 12 October 2004, John Yuill Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University. Accessed 25 May. 2013. <http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=OH0433>.