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Oral history interview with Lee Allen
Collection
Identifier: MSS SC 3162
Scope and Contents
Transcript (32 pages) and audiocassette recording of an interview with veteran Lee Allen conducted by Mark D. Bell for the Ray Hillam project, dated approximately 1985. Allen went to Vietnam in 1962 and was never wounded. He discusses the brutality of the enemy during the war. He says that the United States press did a poor job in reporting the war, failed to note how brutal the enemy was, and wrongly indicated that the war could not be won. He says the United States could have won the war...
Dates:
approximately 1985
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Hillam War Project interviews of Korean and Vietnam War veterans
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 6290
Abstract
This collection consists of interviews with Korean and Vietnam veterans under the direction of Ray C. Hillam for his war project. It covers topics such as recruitment, training, daily routines, duties, missions, how their experience as an LDS soldier differed from their fellow soldiers, and many other topics as the veterans reveal their war experiences and what it meant to them. Includes six interviews, each interview consisting of a transcript and either a cassette tape or audio reel of the...
Dates:
1985
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Don E. Norton interviews with veterans
Collection
Identifier: MSS 9148
Scope and Contents
Includes interviews with veterans conducted by Don E. Norton, a retired English professor in Utah, and recorded on cassette tapes and optical discs. Also selected transcripts, bound histories, and a scrapbook. Interviews include Latter-day Saint veterans who served in World War II or other United States-involved wars. Interviews include war experiences and biographical narrative. Dated approximately 1944 to 2017.
Dates:
approximately 1944-2017
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interview with J. Bruce Clark
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6793
Abstract
Includes a transcript and audio cassette tape of an interview conducted by P. Bradford Westwood with J. Bruce Clark on December 26, 2008.
Dates:
2008
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Max Snow teletype message and diary on the Second World War
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7509
Abstract
Contains the teletype message that declared the ending of the Second World War and the diary of W. Max Snow from his time serving in the military.
Dates:
1945 February-August
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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