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Noel Gayler oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 366
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: undated

Philip K.B. Lundeberg oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 313
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: undated

Robert J. Coontz oral history transcription, 2000

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 251
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

Russell H. Holm oral history transcription, 1998

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 259
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

Steven F. Yorden oral history transcription, 1998

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 261
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

Thomas J Walker oral history transcription, 1997

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 264
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1997

Wade Holcomb oral history transcription, 1998

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 260
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

Walde Lindemann oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 416
Scope and Contents

Oral history of Walde Lindemann aviation machinist mate USS Little Rock

Dates: undated

Wallace R. Dowd oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 285
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: undated

Walter Bosch oral history transcription

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Identifier: MSC-382- Item OH 318
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: undated

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