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Oral history interview with Martha Bryant Allen
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2867
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Allen was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks on June 7, 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Allen talks about her mixed-ethnic background, how hard the slave women had to work, the "carpet gitters" who pursued slave women, and the Ku Klux Klan.
Dates:
1937 June 7
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interview of Howard Riley
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2993
Scope and Contents
Typescipt of an interview taken from the included audiocassettes. The interview was conducted by David Jones on 14 August 1985 for Dr. Ray Hillam's Political Science 379R course at Brigham Young University. Roley talks about joining the U.S. Navy out of high school and describes his experiences while on ships off the coasts of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Dates:
1985
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ruth Louise Partridge papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1544
Scope and Contents
Contains the papers of Partridge, including correspondence and letters, typescripts, Minutia newspaper columns, news clippings and articles, genealogical and historical information, written stories, nursing information, and other personal information concerning her professional, volunteer and private activities. Also includes information on George Shepherd Taylor and George M. Taylor. Materials date from between 1862 and 1955.
Dates:
approximately 1862-1955
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 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
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
Calvin William Elton interviews
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3184
Scope and Contents
Interview conducted by Murray Duff on April 16, 1985 for the Ray Hillam war project. Elton enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in 1940, but he was used in ground combat in the Philippines in 1941. He was captured by the Japanese in 1942. He experienced the Bataan Death march for five days and was placed in a prison camp. Many men died every day because of disease and malnutrition. Elton talked about how he and his close friends kept each other alive. In 1943, he was sent to Japan....
Dates:
1985 April 16
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Timothy Hoyt Bowers-Irons interview
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3190
Scope and Contents
Transcript of a interview conducted by Richard Maynard on 27 July and 1 and 8 Aug. 1973 for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies LDS Chaplain Oral History Project. Bowers-Irons was born in Nephi, Utah, and served as a missionary to South Africa for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He graduated in psychology from Brigham Young University in 1942. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1943 and was commissioned a chaplain in 1944. He served in Europe and was...
Dates:
1973
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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