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Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

by the name of Leon Gray, Colonel Leon Gray, and he was a Distinguished Service Cross winner in World War II, probably one of the top reconnaissance pilots in the business. In fact, he was. An incredible pilot, ex-airline pilot. And the First Fighter Group had

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

we reported this to Washington, and I think people from Washington came out and they iI/ere also briefed directly by Thompson. I think there was fairly quickly agreement that this was a sound approach in counterinsurgency. The U.S. military

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

mind, the type of mechanism that you could use to control this type of flow. And secondly, I had worked in the Office of Alien Property during the postWorld War II period, and still had a certain amount of knowledge of the statute. And as a result

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, you've just got to go out there." And the Vice President said, "ttr. President, I don't want to embarrass you by getting my head blown off in Saigon. But fi nally they di d make the tri p and he took the Smiths II with him--Stephen and Jean Smith

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: In the first week of World War II? E: The first week of September; the ninth of September. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org G: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh That left you expecting your
Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving

question in your minds at all regarding the reality of the second attack? S: My own mind on that, I think, has to be colored by an experience I had myself in World War II where at Normandy we were in the picket line there just after we'd established

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And I won't run without you. II F: Do you think Jack Kennedy felt then that this was as good a Vice President as he could have gotten? W: Yes, he ~id. He had a very high respect, I'm sure, for the Vice President. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a lot of Mike Force strikers, sixty, seventy killed, something like that, another greater number wounded. And finally the II [Field] Force V [Vietnam] corrmander acted, brought the 196th Infantry Brigade in, and by the time they finished, they had had

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at Princeton. I went to Princeton for two-and-a-half years, left for World War II, was in the war for three years in the 76th Infantry (ETO). I returned to Princeton-M: I might add you won a Bronze Star. W: Yes. I returned to Princeton, applied

and price controls either during the Korean War or World War II or both. In my case I worked for a bit over a year with the Wage Stabilization Board during the Korean War. I was on a staff level at the time. But one thing that almost everybody who had

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan

" And I said, "No, sir." He said, "Well, I can guess who pretty good." it. did~': It's (Laughter) "Pretty good. Type it up and I'll sign II M: That's the way it went. F: That's the way it went. M: During that several months when the situation

/show/loh/oh 18 P: That's true. We didn't have the most modern equipment. We were flying World War II crates around for certain missions, but it turned out that for a particular unsophisticated military environment in South Vietnam, they were just

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that the flight had been cancelled, and an unidentified plane, from their point of view, came into the air. It was one of the old flying boxcars of World War II, a plane that had been used by the Israelis for reconnaissance purposes; they thought

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