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Oral History of Warren McFarland
Tags: A&P grocery; abbreviations; ACL; agency checks; Alaska; American Morse Code; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company; auditors; audits; Avon Park; Avon Park Atlantic Coast Line Train Station; barge lines; bugs; California; carpal tunnel syndrome; Central Florida Railroad Museum; Chicago, Illinois; communication limits; communications; computer-assisted train dispatching; conscription; CTS; Dallas, Texas; Department of Transportation; DOT; drafts; equal pay; extra boards; FCC; Federal Communications Commission; first solid-state amplifiers; first transcontinental telegraphs; Florida Boom; Frances Perkins Building; freight warehouses; Geoffrey Cravero; grocery clerks; grocery stores; Guglielmo Marconi; ham radio operators; ham radios; Hawaii; historical preservation; HOS; Hours of Service; ICC; International Morse Code; Interstate Commerce Commission; landline telegraphers; landline telegraphs; landline telegraphy; Montana; Morse Telegraph Club, Inc.; Nevada; Ocala; Ocala Union Station; Ohio; orlando; paid vacations; Pony Express; Prince Albert tobacco cans; railroad agents; railroad depots; Railroad Morse; Railroad Safety and Service Agent; railroad stations; railroading; railroads; railways; regulations; resonators; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; safety inspections; SAL; Samuel Finley Breese Morse; Samuel Morse; San Francisco, California; Seaboard Air Line Depot; Seaboard Air Line Railroad; social clubs; solid-state amplifiers; sounders; South Carolina; speed keys; stagecoach routes; TAPS; Tavares & Gulf Railroad; telegraph instruments; telegraph keys; telegrapher's paralysis; telegraphers; telegraphs; telegraphy; telephones; teletypes; Tennessee; text abbreviations; The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company; train depots; train dispatchers; train dispatching; train stations; trains; Trans-Alaska Pipeline System; transcontinental telegraphs; UCF; University of Central Florida; Utah; Virginia; Warren McFarland; Washington, D.C.; waybills; Western Union; Winter Garden; wireless telegraphers; wireless telegraphs; wireless telegraphy; World War II; WWII; yard checks
Oral History of Richard Tobias Sloane
Tags: A-5; advanced training; aircraft; airplanes; airports; auxiliary service; B-52; B-52 Memorial Park; Baldwin Park; basic training; Blue Jacket Park; Boeing B-52 Stratofortress; Bronze Star with V Device; BUPERS; Bureau of Naval Personnel; captains; Carli Van Zandt; Carolyn Van Zandt; Central Florida Research Park; Combat Action Award; Commander Carrier Group 8; Community Veterans History Project; conscription; CVHP; Dave Arms; deployments; destroyers; discipline; drafts; engineering; engineers; ensigns; Fernando Maldonado; Garcia; Get Me to the Church on Time; graduations; Great Lakes, Illinois; Grinder; Groucho Marx; gunnery officers; Harry Smith; historical preservation; historical restoration; Honey Bun; Jim Allen; Julius Henry Marx; Lake Baldwin; Legion of Merit; Lieutenant Junior; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; LSMP; LST; LTJG; Luis De Florez; Luis De Florez Building; Lydia and the Tattooed Lady; McCoy AFB; McCoy Air Force Base; Mekong Delta; memorials; military spouses; military training; military wife; military wives; Milwaukee; monuments; Morale, Welfare, and Recreation; MWR; My Fair Lady; NAS Sanford; Naval Air Station Sanford; Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Divisions; Naval Destroyers School; Naval Education and Training Command; Naval Training Center; Naval Training Center Great Lakes; Naval Training Center Orlando; Naval War College; Navy E Ribbon; Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society; NAWCTSD; NETC; Newport, Rhode Island; NMCRS; North American A-5 Vigilante; NTC Great Lakes; NTC Orlando; Nuclear Power School; nurses; OCS; Officer Candidate School; Officer Car; orlando; Orlando International Airport; Orlando-Sanford International Airport; parks; planes; preservation; Purple Heart; Queens, New York City, New York; RA-5C; RA-5C Vigilante; recruit training; Recruit Training Center; Recruit Training Center Orlando; recruits; Repair Division Officer; Research Park; retirement; Richard T. Sloane; Richard Tobias Sloane; river patrols; River Section 35; Rockbridge; RTC Orlando; Sanford; Santa Barbara; selective service; Service School Command; Service Schools Command; SERVSCOLSCOM; simulations; simulators; South Pacific; Surface Warfare Advisor; Surface Warfare Officers School; The Navigator; training; U.S. Naval War College; U.S. Navy; United Service Organization; USO; USS Blue Jacket; USS Garcia; USS Hassayampa; USS Milwaukee; USS Rockbridge; USS Santa Barbara; USS Wisconsin; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; Vietnamese; volunteers; Ward Room; wars; Weapon Systems Officer; Wisconsin
Oral History of Alan R. Holtz
Tags: 1st Gulf War; 1st Iraq War; 9/11; aircraft carrier; aircraft carriers; Alan R. Holtz; basic training; boot camp; boot camps; Brooklyn, New York City, New York; Community Veterans History Project; conscription; CVHP; Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Desert Shield; Desert Storm; drafts; E-6; education; Enlisted Rank 6; enlistment; First Gulf War; First Iraq War; Gulf War; Hancock; instructors; Iraq War; Jared Grossi; Kuwait War; liberties; liberty; military education; military training; naval instructors; North Vietnam; Operation Desert Shield; Operation Desert Storm; Persian Gulf War; Philippines; Republic of the Philippines; Republic of Vietnam; San Diego, California; selective service; September 11th; Socialist Republic of Vietnam; South Vietnam; TAR; terrorism; terrorists; training; Training and Administration of the Reserve; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; USS Hancock; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; watch; watches
Oral History of Lawrence Paul Levine
Tags: accounting; advanced training; Airframe Repair School; airframe repair specialists; airframe repairman; airframe repairmen; airplanes; Amarill, Texas; Amarillo AFB; Amarillo Air Force Base; anti-war movement; basic training; Boeing 707; Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker; Brown University; BU; Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; Burlington County, New Jersey; C-141 Galaxy; colorblindness; Community Veterans History Project; conscription; Custom Service; CVHP; Detachment 51; draft board; draft lottery; drafts; education; enlistment; Europe; F-101; F-105; F-4; fast food restaurants; fiber glassing; fiberglass; firearms; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; G.I. Bill; Germany; Good Conduct Medal; gun ranges; guns; instructors; Ishihara Color Test; jet; jet fighter; jets; KC-135; Lackland AFB; Lackland Air Force Base; Larry Levine; Lawrence Paul Levin; marching; marriages; Mary Hughes Young; McDonald's; McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II; McDonnell F-101 Voodoo; Mcguire AFB; Mcguire Air Force Base; metal; military draft; military education; military training; pacifism; pacifists; peace movement; phantom jets; planes; protests; Providence, Rhode Island; pylon; Republic F-105 Thunderchief; Rhein-Main AB; Rhein-Main Air Base; RIT; riveting; Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, New York; San Antonio, Texas; Selective Service System; Sergeant; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; sharpshooters; sharpshooting; Shaw AFB; Shaw Air Force Base; sheet metal; Staff Sergeant; Sumter, South Carolina; TDY; temporary duty; The Platters; TI; training; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Air Force in Europe; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Air Corps; U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; U.S. Customs Service; United Service Organization; USAFE; USO; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; World War II; WWII
Oral History of George G. McGuire
Tags: 2nd Lieutenant; African Enterprise; AFROTC; Air Force; Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps; aircraft; airplanes; Ambassador; AMC; ammunition procurement division; Armed Forces Staff College; Army Materiel Command; Army Military Intelligence Readiness Command; BAA; baht; Bangkok, Thailand; bargains; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; bribery; bribes; business administration; Buy American Act of 1933; C-130; cargo; Chokchai Building; Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints; CID; comfort girls; Community Veterans History Project; Congress; conscription; construction; consultants; contract administrators; contracting; contractors; corruption; Criminal Investigator's Department; CVHP; DCAS; declaration of war; Defense Contract Administration Services; deputy directors; DOD; Downtown Bangkok; drafts; Durban, South Africa; engineering; engineers; Fawley, England; Fussa, Japan; George C. McGuire; George Washington University; GWU; hospitals; Judy Scherer; Korea; Lake Washington; LDS Church; legislation; lieutenant colonel; Lockheed C-130 Hercules; McCoy AFB; McCoy Air Force Base; Ministry of Defense; MIRC; Missouri; Mom Rajawongse Seni Pramoj; Mormonism; Mormons; NAS Sand Point; Naval Air Station Sand Point; New Jersey; New York City, New York; New York Harbor; Norfolk, Virginia; Notre Dame, Indiana; OIA; oil; oil refineries; oil refinery; orlando; Orlando AFB; Orlando Air Force Base; Orlando International Airport; Osan AB; Osan Air Base; OSI; planes; President of Thailand; presidents; procurement centers; procurement officers; prostitutes; prostitution; Pyeongtaek-si,South Korea; regulations; Reserve Officers' Training Corps; retirement; Rock Island Arsenal; Rose Marie Scherer; ROTC; sailboats; sailing; scandals; Seattle, Washington; Second Lieutenant; Seni Pramoj; Seni Pramoj, Mom Rajawongse; Seoul, South Korea; sex workers; Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition; Squadron Officer School; Statue of Liberty; Summit, New Jersey; Thai; Thai Ministry of Defense; Thailand; tour of duty; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations; U.S. ambassador; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Materiel Command; U.S. Army Military Intelligence Readiness Command; U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. Navy; UND; University of Notre Dame; University of Notre Dame du La; USAF; USAFOSI; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; Warsaw, Missouri; Washington, D.C.; Whiteman AFB; Whiteman Air Force Base; World War II; WWII; Yokota AB; Yokota Air Base
Oral History of Frank V. Boffi
Tags: Allied Invasion of Sicily; Anzio Beach, Italy; Arabs; Attack of Pearl Harbor; Battle of Anzio; Battle of Okinawa; battle stars; Bill Suey; boot camps; Boston, Massachusetts; camaraderie; catacombs; Cavinar; Certified Safety Professional; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; construction; Cranston, Rhode Island; CSP; decoys; destroyers; Don Hackler; Doug Aiken; drafts; engineering; engineers; FDR; Fort Lewis; Frank V. Boffi; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Rooosevelt; Frontline of Anzio and Nettuno; Great Depression; hammocks; health care; hospitals; immigrants; immigration; insurance; Islam; Italian Americans; Italian Campaign; Italy; jack stands; Kamikazes; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; Luis Santana Garcia; machinists; Marc Ennis; Mark Barnes; Mediterranean Seas; mental health; Moose Club; Muslims; Naval Air Warfare Center; Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division; Naval Training Center Orlando; Navy League; NAWC; NAWCTSD; New Deal; Newport, Rhode Island; North Africa; NTC Orlando; Occupational Safety and Health Act; OCS; Officer Candidate School; Okinawa, Japan; Operation Husky; Operation Iceberg; Operation Shingle; Oran, Algeria; orlando; OSHA; Pacific Theater; Purple Heart Foundation; Purple Hearts; retirement; San Francisco, California; San Pedro, California; screening; skeleton crews; Speedo; Sun Valley, Idaho; Tears of a Warrior: A Family's Story of Combat and Living with PTSD; Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands; training; Trigger; U.S. Navy; UCF; UCF Community Veterans History Project; UCF CVHP; University of Central Florida; University of South Florida; USF; USS Bernadou; USS Brownson; USS Fiske; USS Hugh W. Hadley; VA; Vatican; Vatican City; Vatican Necropolis; veterans; Veterans Administration; wars; Works Progress Administration; World War II; WPA; WWII
Oral History of Arthurene Wilson Cook
Tags: 1st Street; Anthony, Dottie Von Turbulis; artesian wells; Austin, Louise; bookkeepers; cancers; Carey, North Carolina; Celery Avenue; Chase & Company; Columbus, Georgia; Cook, Arthurene Wilson; Cook, Sherry; Cook, Walter; courthouses; divorces; Downtown Sanford; drafts; elections; Family Loan Company; First Baptist Church of Sanford; First Street; Florida Fashions; French Avenue; Great Depression; Historical Society of Central Florida; hurricanes; Linda McKnight Batman Oral History Project; Longwood; Magic Kingdom; Maitland; Morris, Joseph; multiple myeloma; Museum of Seminole County History; Orange Avenue; orlando; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; railroads; railways; Sanford; Sanford Civic Center; Sanford, North Carolina; Sanlando Springs; Seminole High School; SR 46; tax collectors; Ted Davis Furniture Company; The Villages; trains; Von Turbulis, Dottie; voting; Walt Disney World; Wilson-Maier Furniture Company; Wilson, Arthurene; World War II; WWII; Wynwood, 25th Street