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Sales Broisrond oral history
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8549
Dates:
2012
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interview with Jay Dell Butler
Collection
Identifier: MSS SC 3180
Scope and Contents
Transcript and audiocassette recording of an oral history interview with Jay Dell Butler conducted by Gary Dewey on July 20, 1985. Butler tells about his experiences in combat fighting in France during WWII. He was in foxholes most of the time, was under fire from mortars, and was wounded in battle. He thought the United States' involvement in the war was justified.
Dates:
1985 July 20
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Howard Allen Christy interview and responses to questions
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3165
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted by Murray Duff on 29 March 1985 and responses to questions posed by Ray C. Hillam in November of 1985. Christy graduated from college in 1955 and joined the Marine Corps. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and retired from the Marines in 1975. Christy was in Hawaii when the Vietnam War broke out and was made a company commander of a rifle company in the 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day...
Dates:
1985 March 29
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John A. Duff interview
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3167
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted by Murray Duff, son of John A. Duff, on 15 April 1985 for the Ray Hillam military history project. John A. Duff was stationed in Ft. Benning, Georgia, as an Army aviator before he was assigned to Vietnam in 1965. He served with the 197th Armed Helicopter Company and took over as a platoon commander. He told about his combat experiences, the various missions in which he participated, and the strategies employed. John A. Duff was a member of the Church...
Dates:
1985 April 15
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Robert Hughes interview
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3173
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted by Darren Timothy on 6 Dec. 1985 for the Ray Hillam military history project. Hughes was from Spanish Fork, Utah, and his father worked for the FBI. Robert Hughes joined the Marine Corps officer's program in 1967 and was sent to serve with the infantry in Vietnam. He later served with motor transportation in Vietnam. He was in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969 and went on many search-and-destroy missions. Hughes told about hardships in being away from home. ...
Dates:
1985 December 6
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interviews with Franklin L. West
Collection — Carton: 1
Identifier: MSS 8353
Scope and Contents
Contains the personal oral histories of West, recorded between 1950 and 1959 on twelve Mylar reels and eighteen audiocassettes. Includes details about his time with the Department of Education of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Dates:
1950-1959
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Walter H. Speidel interview
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3174
Scope and Contents
Transcript of an interview conducted on 28 March 1985 by Burt Speidel, Walter's son, for the Ray Hillam military history project. Walter was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and was raised in Germany. He told about the Mormon missionaries that had to leave the country in 1938, and he was afraid that Germany and the United States would have to fight each other. He was in the Hitler Youth that had meetings on Sunday which made it difficult for him to go to Church....
Dates:
1985 March 28
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interview with Wayne A. Warr
Collection
Identifier: MSS SC 3192
Scope and Contents
A typescript and two audiocassette recordings of an interview with Wayne A. Warr conducted by Scott M. Fellows on February 14, 1985, for the Ray Hillam war project. Warr served in the United States Army and was sent to Vietnam in 1965 as a radio operator. He was in Vietnam for three months in 1965 and returned in 1967 as a platoon sergeant. He tells about his daily routines, experiences when ambushed, and difficulty distinguishing the enemy. States the North Vietnamese were well trained,...
Dates:
1985 February 14
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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