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Noel Gayler oral history transcription
Fighter pilot in USS Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942; Seived in USS Enterprise, USS Saratoga, and USS Randolph; Received three Navy Crosses; Comments on nuclear tests at Eniwetok; Director of the National Security Agency; CINCPAC, 1972-1976.
Philip K.B. Lundeberg oral history transcription
Lundeberg, Philip K.B., 1923-. Served in the Navy in USS Frederick C. Davis in WWII; Attack on the ship; Discharge from the Navy; Graduate work at Harvard University; Teaching at St Olaf College and the U.S. Naval Acad emy; Naval History, Smithsonian Institution.
Robert J. Coontz oral history transcription, 2000
Coontz, Robert J., CAPT, USN, 1926. Typescript of the thirty-five year naval career of Coontz who enlisted in 1944; Topics include his grandfather, ADM R. E. Coontz, second CNO; His father's death, youth in Bristol, Va.; Gradu ation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1949; Served in USS Missouri as a spotter; Flying spotter missions in the Korean War; Operation Officer in USS Charles S. Sperry, 1952; Met Prince Philip and Pope Pius XII; Co, PCE 870 in New Orleans; PG School, 1955; Electronics Instructor, USNA: EXO, USS Sellstrom, 1958-1960; Trained as a programmer at Naval Electronics Lab to introduce Navy Tactical Data Systems in the Fleet; CIC Officer, USS Chicago, 1963-1965; EXO, USS Halsey off Vietnam, 1966-1968; Head, Plans and Policy, MISD, 1973-1977;JCS, 1977-1979; Retired in 1979; Includes thoughts on his naval career.
Russell H. Holm oral history transcription, 1998
Holm, Russell H., 1921-. Typescript of interview with Holm who served in WWII as an engineering officer in the Atlan tic and Pacific Fleets, includes youth and education at Brooklyn Tech High School; Cadet Corps; Merchant Marine where he served on a tanker and cruise ships SS Brazil and Argentina; Midship man, USN, 1941 and served in USS Heywood, USS Frankford and USS Hogatt Bay in the Pacific and USS Los Angeles; Postwar career with Combustion Engineering as Director, Operation in the West; Retired in 1986 and was ordained a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church.
Steven F. Yorden oral history transcription, 1998
Yorden, Steven F., Chief Warrant Officer, USN, 1921-. Typescript of interview with Chief Warrant Officer Yorden who enlisted in the Navy and served as a shipfitter in destroyers in the Pacific during WWII. Focus is on setvice in USS Ralph Talbot where he witnessed the Pearl Harbor attack, 1941; Saw action in thirty major Pacific Thea tre battles, including Coral Sea, the Marshalls and Gilberts, Midway, Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf; Survived a typhoon in December 1944; Seived in USSFlusser, USS Dewey, USSFargo, USSGrand Canyon and USS Rockbridge. Retired in 1960; Postnaval career in construction business.
Thomas J Walker oral history transcription, 1997
Walker, Thomas J, Jr., VADM, USN, (Ret.) 1916-. Education, USNA, 1935-1939; Signal Officer, USS Minnesota; Flight training, Pensacola, Fla.; World War II, North Atlantic; Los Alamos, N.M.; Advanced Flight training; Polaris Missile and U-2 program; CO, USS Constellation; CO, Naval Air Force, Pacific; Retirement.
Wade Holcomb oral history transcription, 1998
Holcomb, Wade, LCDR, USNR, 1921-. Transcript ofinterview with LCDR Holcomb who enlisted in the Navy in 1938 as a radioman; Served in USS Crosby, 1940-1941; Attended Electronics Material School, 1943; Served as an in structor in Illinois, California and Michigan; Recalled during the Korean War assigned to Officers Electronic School, 1953; Bell Labs, 1954-1959; Airborne Instruments, 1959-1962; Yale Univer sity, 1966-1988; Served in the USNR for forty-three years and retired in 1981.
Walde Lindemann oral history transcription
Oral history of Walde Lindemann aviation machinist mate USS Little Rock
Wallace R. Dowd oral history transcription
Dowd, Wallace R., RADM, SC, USN, 1921-. Attended University of Washington; Commissioned in 1942; Supply Corps School, Harvard University; USS Alden, 1942; Shipbuilding Division, Savannah, Ga.; USS Antietam, 1945; Navy Department, 1945-1947; Stanford University, MBA, 1949; Staff, CO, Fleet Air, Seattle, 1949- 1950; Puget Sound Shipyard, 1952-1954; Naval War College, Newport, R.I., 1954-1955; USS St. Paul, 1955-1957; Sixth Fleet, Naples, 1962; CNO's office, 1963-1965; Staff, CO, Service Force, Pa cific Fleet, 1966-1968; Vice Chief, Naval Supply System Command, 1970 and Naval Supply Cen ter, Oakland, 1971-1972; Chief, Supply Corps, 1972-1977; Retirement, 1977; Retirement activities.
Walter Bosch oral history transcription
Bosch, Walter, Lt., USN/MMR (Ret.) 1924-. Youth in Brooklyn, N.Y.; U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; Sea duty in SS Henry Middleton; Convoy duty; U Boat attack; Ran aground off Sicily; Sailed to Anzio; POW transport; Sailed to Ant werp, Belgium; Postwar cruise to the Far East;Joined USNR and served in USS Cimarron during the Korean War.