Military Series
Information
Size: 75 interviews on 116 recordings
Time period covered: 1930s - 1970s
Dates of interviews: 1992 - present
Principal Interviewers: John Capdeveille, Jack Fiser, Adele Foster, Mary Hebert, Peter Soderbergh, Tara Zachary, Jennifer Abraham, Matt Mullenix
Finding Aids: Abstracts
Audio Availability: MP3
Processing Status: 17% of interviews are cataloged (13 of 75)
Access Restrictions: See individual abstracts
Description: This ongoing interview series documents Louisiana's military tradition and focuses primarily on World War II. Veterans of the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars are also interviewed.
Interview Abstracts
Floyd Anderson
Sidney Arbour, Jr.
F. R. Arceneaux & John Broussard
Paul Arst
Calvin Aucion
William Barnhouse
St. Clair Bienvenu
A.W. Braswell
Millard "Mil" Brewer
Tony Brown
Earnest Dare Campbell
Louis Cancienne
Derward Copeland
James Daugherty
James C. Drain
Cleveland Dupuis
Oliver Evans
Jessie Fairchild
Verlan Eilers Ferrara
Robert Fletcher
Eva Friedman
Celine Ganel
Gus Gikas
Robert Gould
Cyril Guidry
Philip R. Haley, Jr.
Robert Hatfield
Col. Walter Hays
Norman Heresko
Billy Heroman
Henry Houle
Leroy Jenkins (by J. Noah Rost)
Leroy Jenkins (by Mary Hebert)
Ed Kovaleski
Otto Kratochuil
Harold Lamb
Edna Lange
Nick Lawless
Byron Levy
Joseph Mahoney
George Michael McDonald
Aldo Meiske
Edgar Moody
Anthony A. Palumbo
Bill & Nancy Penn
Raymond Perreault
Thomas O. Perry
Vincent Pizzolato
Leo Purdin
Thomas Rhame
Alice Roberts
Bill Rothermel
Harvey Schwartzberg
Henry Setlock
David Shanks
Thomas Small
J. B. Swanson
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