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Oral History Transcript
Derek Huss
Derek: It is September 23rd 2012, we are in Lewisville NC, I am interviewing my father, Petty Officer
Allen Huss, born on December 30, 1950. I am Derek Huss, from Appalachian State University, and we
will begin the oral history now. First off, were you drafted or were you enlisted?
Allen: I enlisted.
Derek: Where were you living at the time?
Allen: With my parents in Lincolnton, NC.
Derek: What made you decided to join, and what branch of service did you go into?
Allen: I decided to join because the draft was taking men age 19 because of the Vietnam War, I was
going to school at Gaston College at the time, but really didn’t have any direction, as to what I wanted to
do with my life, sooner or later I figured the draft was gonna get me anyway, and I did not want to go
into the army. That's why I decided to join the Navy.
D: How much college had you gone through when that happened?
A: A year and a half. Plus the first draft lottery since WWII had started a month earlier in the December
of 1969 and my birthday was chosen 3rd.
D: So you joined...?
A: I joined a month later, on Jan. 26, 1970.
D: Okay. Tell me about training.
A: I was sent with several other men from around the Charlotte area to Great Lakes training center
between Chicago and Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. Training, boot camp, back then, was 13 weeks.
They turned ordinary citizens into military men in a matter of weeks. Training is hard, you go to school
during the day, you stand watches at night, participate in athletics, and we had a good basketball team.
It was company against company. We had a swimming team, and we competed against each other in
the classroom, on the athletic fields, so we didn't get to play a lot of sports, that was usually a Saturday
morning thing. The rest of the time you were marching, eating or sleeping, or going to class.
D: Do you remember your instructors, or have any stories from training?
A: Our commanding officer was a chief. A little short, mean guy. Chief Lorreat was his name. IT was his
first experience in boot camp, like us, but he was a chief, of course he had been in the navy for 20
something years. And by the time boot camp was over we were all pretty good friends. We learned to
respect him, and I think he learned to respect us.
D: So it was a learning experience for both of you.
�A: Plus we won a bunch of flags. We won the I flag, we were the smartest comp in boot camp at the
time. We won the A flag, which meant we were the most athletic, and those were the two he wanted
so...
D: So those competitions, were they based on just where you were, or a broader area?
A: The whole boot camp.
D: Oh Okay.
A: For every company in boot camp, we competed against. Like I said we had a good basketball team,
which I played on, we had a good swimming team, which I swam on, and we had some very smart,
intelligent guys in our company so we won the I flag. A company in boot camp is around 60 men, 60 to
70 men, each company sleeps in its own barracks, don’t really mix with another company unless you’re
playing in sports against them or eating in the mess hall. But you usually separated and just with your
friends in the company that you make while you’re in boot camp, and you become good friends very
quickly cause it’s all you do. In the 13 weeks I was there we had two days of leave, and they were
toward the end of the 13 weeks where you[‘re] getting near that graduation date. One day we took the
train to Chicago and the next Saturday we got a leave to Milwaukee. Saw my first Major League
Baseball game in Chicago in April of 1970. Free tickets from the USO and froze to death in White Sox
Stadium.
D: Alright. Moving on. Which war or wars did you serve in?
A: I was in service during the Vietnam War
D: And where exactly did you go?
A: Well after boot camp I was sent to Bambridge Maryland, I was very lucky I had scored high on the test
and they wanted to make me a radioman, so I was sent to Bambridge, Maryland, one of the Navy’s best
A schools. They had A schools, B schools, and C schools. A School’s were the top Navy schools, and
several of my friends from boot camp went to Bambridge, Maryland with me to radio school. There
were four of us from that company that went to radio school. The first night we were there we met a
guy that was from charlotte and the bowling alley. He was graduating and leaving his apt that he
rented, we immediately took over the next week and I didn’t have to spend 5 days in the barracks the
whole time I was there
D: Alright. So what was your assignment?
A: On the ship?
D: Right, yeah.
A: I was radioman. And I had a top secret clearance by the end of 1972. Which cleared the way for me
to become petty officer and watch supervisor.
�D: So you got on the ship, did you ever see combat?
A: Uh, no. Thank goodness. We were in the Mediterranean during the Yom Kippur war, which is the
second time the U.S. military went to DEFCONN 2, other than the Cuban missile crisis. Ship I was on was
the FDR, there was another carrier in our group in the Mediterranean, the USS Independence, and we
were all in main comm., the ship went on general quarters and stayed that way for the entire war, lasted
about 10 days.
D: You said no combat, were there any casualties in your unit?
A: We lost, we lost several guys just from accidents, being washed overboard, one guy died one day
shaving, and he had a brain aneurysm. When you have 4500 men on one ship, things are gonna happen.
We lost several pilots; we lost two jets in 30 seconds. Off the coast of Puerto Rico our steam catapults
failed and two jets crashed within 30 seconds of each other, all the pilots were lost. There were deaths.
Whenever we took on fuel or supplies, any cargo or water tankers would pull up beside us and we
would be moving, we wouldn’t stop like the Russian navy, we were always moving to refuel or to
resupply. they would let the elevators down that takes the planes up to the flight deck from the hangar
bay, and if it’s rough seas big waves, it can, they can wash a man overboard, and that happened one
night while we were refueling, and no one saw him go over. The next morning during roll call they
discovered he had disappeared. Of course they never found the man. We did have one that was lucky.
He was washed over during the day time and the Russian destroyer that was following us picked him up
and one of our helicopters went over and retrieved him off the Russian ship.
D: Geez. Well you mentioned a few but uh, can you give us a couple of your most memorable
experiences?
A: Well, radiomen, you’re either on a 8 hour watch or port and starboard, which means 12 hours on, 12
hours off, and during heavy NATO exercises or during, like the Yom Kippur war, of course there’s a lot of
messages coming in. As the battle groups aircraft carrier, we had 8 or 9 ships surrounding us; they did
not have the radio rooms we did. We had 3 radio rooms on the ACC, we would take their radio traffic,
which is called traffic, and have to send it to them on another teletype machine, cause they didn’t have
the room for all of the equipment that would be necessary to go back and forth between a land base or
other ships. So in fact, we were taking traffic for 8 ships, not just our one ship.
D: And if you don’t mind me cutting in here, can you describe what kind of equipment you had in the
radio room?
A: Well our printers were old teletype machines, they don’t use those anymore, but they were big loud
and bulky. We had different rooms, we had a broadcast room, which usually had 8 to 10 teletypes
running full 24 hrs a day, one broadcast operator who had to check every message coming over. We
had a TGO room, which is a task group room that we would receive and send messages to our task
group. we had an office, that did the printing other messages that would go to the offices that the diff
messages were addressed to, runners would come from these different departments, all over the ship
to get their messages once every hour or two. In case of a flash message or top secret message, a
�runner or messenger would have to go find the Capt. or the executive officer to deliver those messages
by hand.
D: And then to steer us back on track, can you give us the story about the few days leading up to the
Yom Kippur, when you were heading to Vietnam, and had to come back?
A: Well, we were in 1972; Nixon tried to bomb Hanoi into the peace table in Paris where the peace talks
were going on. Nobody ever understood what President Nixon was trying to do; I don’t think his close
assistants knew what he was trying to do. What he was trying to do in ‘71 was get re-elected in ‘72. So
he didn’t want to cause any more trouble to the American public, of course it was ... the 60’s, the late
60’s were a wild time with the assassinations, schools, just, a lot of demonstrations against the Vietnam
war, and the president, don’t know if he really wanted to get out of Vietnam in the early 70s, I think he
found it to be to his advantage to have a war. But in 1973 he ordered 22 carriers off the coast of
Vietnam, North Vietnam, and that when we started bombing Hanoi. We were on our way out of the
med, to head for Vietnam and that when the Yom Kippur war started that night. We had no idea it was
starting, and neither did the Israeli’s, they were attack from three sides by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. And
it was on the first night of the Yom Kippur, which is a very religious holiday, so a lot of their military was
off, on leave, and that was their plan. They attacked them at a weak time, where their military was not
ready. So the first two days they were really defeating Israel on two fronts, and it looked bad. Of course
the U.S. was trying to stay out of it; Soviet Union was trying to stay out of it. But if it had gone any
farther or if either side had started to use an atomic weapon on the other, then that would’ve led to the
Soviet Union coming in and the United States answering.
D: So how far did the Roosevelt make it?
A: We were off the coast of Egypt in less than a day. We were at the eastern end of the Mediterranean
when we got the call. Compared to the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean’s, the med is like a pond. But the
Russians kept a navy of 90 ships in that pond. And we had two carrier groups. It was uh,
D: Stacked against you.
A: Our mission was to launch our jets, and then we were expendable. So when they started loading the
nukes that night... everybody knew we were in for it.
D: Well luckily nothing ever happened from it.
A: Nope, we never got the call to launch. Of course we were launching our jets, but not with nuclear
weapons. But there were a lot of jets loaded with nuclear weapons. They were ready to go. We had a
Russian tattle tale we called 'em. It was either a destroyer or a guided missile cruiser come up beside us
that night, pointed every missile and gun at us, I was in main comm., so I couldn’t go out and look at,
and I was told I didn’t want to look at it, it was just about 100 ft beside us, we had a submarine surface
near us, Russian submarine. During that time they said it was right under us following us around. You
can’t hide an aircraft carrier in the pond.
D: Now you mentioned you have a report saying that sub had been following you for awhile right?
�A: They claimed that they were under us the whole time we were in the Mediterranean. We would
disguise our lights at night if we weren’t having air ops, try to make the ship look like another type of
ship, especially sailing around some of the Greek isles, we would try to lose ‘em at night, but nothing
worked. They knew where we were all the time. It was probably from that submarine. We also had fly
over’s from Bears, which is a huge bomber. It had six propellers and four jets, and we called those fly
over’s, we would usually launch two to four F4 Phantoms to try to head ‘em off, like 200 miles away.
They would still fly over us, just to basically tell us they could kill us anytime they wanted to. Two of our
Phantoms were flying on either side of a bear one night and uh the pilot of the Russian Bear dropped his
wing and damaged the F4 wing, almost made him crash but he made it back to the ship. They would
send ships in front of us during air ops and during air ops you have to hold a steady course. One day
while we were refueling a destroyer came up between and we had to have an emergency breakaway
spilling jet fuel and all kinds of fuel into the ocean. Russian navy was, they were pretty wild. Anything
they could do to disrupt our mission, they did it.
D: Okay, thank you. We’re gonna move on. Were you awarded any medals or citations during your
service?
A: Several citations for NATO exercises, which included all the NATO navy's, especially Great Britain,
France, Italy, Germany. Sometimes turkey, Greece, and I of course was awarded the national defense
medal for being in the military.
D: Alright now I’m gonna ask you a few questions about life in the service. First off, how did you stay in
touch with your family?
A: Well, mainly it was letters. Writing letters. It took 30 days for a letter to get from our ship when we
were overseas back to home. So, it wasn’t instant communication, of course there were no cell phones,
no telephones, no computers, no webcams. For the most it was good ole, writing a letter, and mailing it
from the ship. we had several, what we called COD's, which were propeller driven airplanes, they would
bring in mail, and take the mail off, but that didn’t happen every day, it was more like twice a week.
D: What was the food like on the Roosevelt?
A: Food was terrible. The ship was 25 years old when I got on it in 1970, it had been built and
commissioned in 1945, and the mess decks were exactly the same as they were when they built the
ship. So, the food was awful. it was 4500 men on the ship and serving 4 meals a day, had a meal at
midnight for people who were working all night, and us being in the radio room we worked 24 hours a
day, so you go down and before you went on watch at 11 or 11:30 and they called midrats, midnight
rations, and it was usually the leftovers from dinner, and dinner was usually the leftovers from lunch.
We had a meal that we called red death, nobody knew exactly what it was, but 30 minutes after you ate
it, you had to find a commode.
D: Now you mentioned you got care packages every once in awhile...
�A: Care packages from mom. Alot of guys got care packages; mom’s specialty of course was sending me
brownies which were a big hit with my friends. Good friend of mine was from Brooklyn NY, and he use
to get these care packages from his parents which included Italian and Sicilian meats of all kinds...
pepperonis and ... so I remember one meal, of pepperoni and brownies. And peaches, go down and get
a can of peaches. Being in the radio room, it had its advantages. We knew football scores before the
rest of the ship did. So we would go bet with the bakers on the NFL scores and we already knew who
won, so we won a lot of bread. And that was the only good thing they made on that ship, was good
baked bread.
D: So supplies were never an issue on the ship, were they?
A: Fresh things were. We would run out of milk after about 3 or 4 days, and switch to bug juice or
powdered milk. Fresh milk was great. Sometimes we had chocolate milk, then we would go to bug
juice, which was weak kool-aid. Of course there was always coffee in the radio room, and sometimes
we had tea bags, we could make tea. There were several coke machines on the ship. They usually ran
out of syrup abut a day or two after we left port. And I believe it was a dime for a little cup of 8 oz drink
of some kind. But they weren’t too good.
D: So did you ever feel pressure, or any stress?
A: In the radio room we had pressure all the time. The Capt. would come down; the night the Yom
Kippur war broke out I was in charge of broadcasts, he came into the radio room, he pointed at me and
said 'whatever you do, do not let the broadcasts go down tonight, of course I was in traffic, not in the
radio dept. As soon as he left main comm., all of my machines went down, the Russians were jamming
us. And we could not receive any messages. So just seconds after he pointed his finger at me and said
'whatever you don’t let the broadcasts go down tonight', it did. So without communications, a ship or a
battle group is virtually blind. So it was a scary night. it took us several hours to get our broadcasts
back, communications with uh... we had several land bases, one outside Athens Greece, one in
Morocco, and one in Rota, Spain, so depending on where you were in the med, that’s where you got
your traffic, your radio traffic from, were these land bases.
D: So you travelled all around the Mediterranean, did you visit any places in particular on leave?
A: One time a friend of mine, we took off; we took leave to Paris and London England, travelling by train
from Barcelona. and actually we were headed into Neis, France, which is on the French Riviera, right
below Monte Carlo, we had already purchased our train tickets, the ship was going to be late, by about
an hour after our train left the station, so our division officer secured two spots on a helicopter that was
leaving, so we were about 50 miles off shore and he got us on the helicopter and the helicopter took us
to an airport, we caught a cab to the train station just as the train was leaving, we hopped on it.
D: Wow.
A; And didn’t miss our train. And we spent a great week and a half in Paris and London. the rest of the
time we would get over night leave, because there were 100 radiomen on board, and when we went
�into a port, most of the time we would have overnight leave, we would get a night on shore, whereas
most of the other men on the ship did not get that, they had to be back at 10 o’clock, by ten o’clock that
night. So we were very lucky, we got to spend two days at work, two days off, especially at big ports like
Barcelona, Naples, Athens. We would get overnight livery, and that was great.
D: So how did people entertain themselves on the ship?
A: We did get magazines, of course we did have the armed forces radio, and being in main comm., we
listened to that a lot. We had our own TV station, that operated from 4 o’clock to 10 o’clock every day,
showing real bad movies. Sometimes we had a good movie. Sometimes they would show playboy after
dark. There was always a prayer by the chaplain; we had church services every Sunday, and Saturday for
the Catholics. most of the time you were either working or sleeping, there wasn’t much time for, uh,
when you were at sea you ... it’s all you did. If you weren’t working you were getting ready to work, or
you were resting after being at work, it was very loud, and very busy in radio.
D: Are there any pranks or humorous events that you can remember?
A: On slow nights if all the officers were gone we would have little contests or try to remember like, how
many rock groups can you name in 5 minutes. Things like that. But uh, usually when we were off we
were eating or getting rest. We didn’t have any type of recreation whatsoever. Some of the guys did
purchase some weight lifting equipment, in the Void, which is an empty room where we kept all of our
sea bags and uniform or what we didn’t need, they made a little workout area. Where you could go lift
weights and whatever. But that was about it.
D: So very, very serious on the ship?
A: It was always serious. 24 hours a day serious. Sometimes if the admiral wasn’t aboard we would
have access to the admiral’s bridge, which was right under the captain’s bridge, and we could sit up
there on the admiral’s chair and watch flight ups sometimes at night, it was kinda cool. I remember one
night I just fell asleep in the admirals chair and stayed up there all night, sleeping.
D: Okay, thank you. We’re gonna move on, after service, couple of questions, do you recall the day your
service ended?
A: Mhmm. Yes. Well we were in Athens when I was given the ticket home. They woke me up at about
2 in the morning and told me my flight was leaving Athens airport at 6, to pack my bags, which they
already were, I had applied for a school cut. I got out of the navy a month early so I could attend
Western Carolina Univ. It was about ten days before Christmas, about the 15th of December, I said
goodbye to several friends that were in their bunks, I couldn’t wait to get off the ship and fly home. So
at 6 the next morning, I was on a C130, flying out of Athens international airport, and we flew right over
the Roosevelt, and flew all the way across the Mediterranean to Rota, Spain, spent one night there,
caught a flight to Frankfurt, Germany, spent just several hours there before I caught a back flight home,
which is the military air command, and it was a regular Boeing 707, a lot of military people, a lot of
families, heading home for Christmas. Flew into Philadelphia airport where I was taken by a military car,
�several of us were heading for Philadelphia navy base, where I was to be given my top secret talk where
I had to sign papers saying I wouldn’t divulge information that I had seen for 25 years. Unfortunately,
the officer that was going to give me my briefing left to go on Christmas leave, and I never got the talk.
So he never signed my release, and I walked in to the office one morning to check to see how I was
being discharged, how that was going, and everyone was gone. it was two days before Christmas, it was
Jan-- December 23rd, I looked at the watch officer and I said 'where's everybody at?' and he said 'well
they've all gone home for Christmas.', and I said I need one more signature and I’m out of here. And he
said 'I can’t help you'... he said 'let me uh, let me go find the commanding officer, see what we can do
for you, you might be here for two weeks till everybody gets back'. Fortunately, he felt sorry for me, he
said 'do you promise not to say anything for 25 years?' I said 'Yes sir.' and he said 'get out of here. Go
get your plane'. So I took a cab or a bus out to the airport and I was home in about 12 hours. At
Charlotte airport I took a Trailways bus and surprised the heck out of my parents the next morning,
which was Christmas Eve.
D: Must've been a good day
A: It was great day. A great day.
D: So you got back home, did you go back to work or school?
A: Ten days later I was in enrolled in Western Carolina Univ. Started January 3rd. A good friend of mine
had already found me an apartment, living with him, so we went up for New Years Eve thinking we were
going to some great party, well we got up there and the campus was empty, everyone else was home.
So we hopped in the car and drove to Asheville to a bar, had a pretty good time that night.
D: So was your education supported by the G.I. Bill?
A: Yes. Yeah, I got 160 dollars a month, and that was enough to pay for school and tuition and groceries.
And gas. Gas wasn't expensive back then. So uh, later on I found a house up above the school on the
Tuskegee River, three bedroom house for 90 dollars a month, and I had it to myself. It later became a
party house. I enjoyed it, being on the river, right where the Caney Fork came into the Tuskegee. We
could walk across the highway and it was about 9 miles to the campus, and during the summer we
would actually get in tubes and tube to school. I was also running cross country at Western Carolina,
and sometimes I ran to school.
D: Alright, did you have any long lasting relationships from service?
A: Well, thank goodness for computers and email, I stay in touch with several of my shipmates; we
found each other on the ship's website, which is kinda nice.
D: That's good.
A: I have several old friends... we email each other, once or twice a week. All across the country, from
California to Florida, Nebraska, and New York. So, every once in awhile I'll get an email from an old
�shipmate, who has found my email address. So yeah, I keep in touch with several guys I was in the Navy
with.
D: And you joined a veteran's organization a few years back, correct?
A: I joined the American Legion several years ago here in Lewisville; we were the fastest growing
American Legion in the state at that time.
D: What year was that?
A: Uhhh... joined back in 2006, I believe.
D: Just a few more questions. Does your experience influence your thinking about war or the military in
general?
A: You have to live it to realize what’s going on out there. I don’t think many Americans realize that we
have a fleet in every ocean now, we have a fleet that's, of course, off the Arabian Peninsula. Back when
I was in the Navy, that wasn't, there was no fleet. We had the 6th fleet, which I was in, in the med. The
7th fleet, let's see if I can count 'em right. The 5th fleet in the Atlantic. At any given moment you
probably have 5 to 600 ships at sea, I don't think the American people even realize what's going on with
the military, and why should they? They see it on the news and I'm just talking about the Navy, not
about the Army or Air Force or Marine Corps. and the Coast Guard.
D; Yeah I guess the Navy doesn't get as much screen time as the front line Marines do.
A: Well, we don't have civilians. At the time I was in, we didn't have women on board. Now you see
Navy fliers who are women, radiomen who are women, on board ships. We didn't have females on
board back in the 70's. Course there were no civilians. Once in awhile we would have a show day if we
went into a port. Maybe the king of a country or a mayor of a city would come out and visit, tour by the
captain. Just to let him come on board and look around on the air craft carrier. No civilians were not
allowed on board unless invited. Whereas if you're in the Army you are on land, Air Force, you're on
land, you probably work 9-5 and go home to your wife every night. That's not possible if you're on a
cruise 6-10 months out of every year. It was pretty tough on married people, they didn't see their
families for a long time, and our longest cruise was 10 months, 301 days. Usually a cruise was 6 months;
we had a lot of stuff going on in the Mediterranean that year. We were in Athens, Greece when King
Papadopoulos was being overthrown; we were off the coast of Morocco when that government was
being toppled. In fact, there was a couple of us in downtown Athens, and students were rioting at the
University of Athens, and tanks were rolling by us to go stop the revolution. A car came by us at about
60 mph, threw a smoke bomb at us, we then found out from shore patrol that we were ordered back to
the ship, and we didn't mind going back to the ship that day. We could hear the gunshots at the
university, they were mowing down students. First cruise I had to make, you had to wear your uniform,
that changed after Admiral Zumwaldt became CO, he let us wear civilian clothes when we left the ship
overseas, which was nice.
D: Blend in a little better.
�A: Blend in a little better, they could still pick out American sailors, most guys had long hair in Europe at
that time. And here we were in our Levi's and Wrangler's, short hair. We looked very military, and you
can't hide that.
D: How did your service experiences affect your life?
A: Oh wow. Well I grew up. My father told me, 'If nothing else, they made a man out of you'. You see
things different, you see the world differently, it just changes you. Sometimes not in a good way, I know
several men who were in combat in Vietnam, and they still can't talk about what they saw, of course
they probably saw some of their friends slaughtered, or they were slaughtering the enemy. It makes
you grateful for what you have.
D: I should have asked this in the beginning, to go back to your father, was his military, he was in the
military, did his involvement have anything to do with your decision to go in?
A: Probably. My dad joined, like most men did back in WWII, he lied about his age, he joined the
Merchant Marines when he was 17.
D: Right.
A: And uh, in fact, he was on a livery ship going back and forth from New York or Philadelphia and when
he was discharged he was in Athens, no Naples, Italy. He immediately joined the U.S. Army, and stayed
in the Army for two years, and he was discharged from the Army, and he was back in Lincolnton working
for my grandfather, he joined the Air Force Reserve. So he was in three branches of the service, in like,
8 years. So between me and him we were in every branch of the service except the Marine Corps. The
Merchant Marines were part of the Coast Guard back then.
D: Right. So do you still attend any reunions?
A: Several years ago the ship had a reunion in Jacksonville Florida, where we were stationed, in
Mayport, which is just north of Jacksonville. And there were like, uh, it was open to anyone who had
ever served on the Roosevelt. We had one man who had served on the first cruise, and they had gone
to Rio de Jainero, Brazil on that first cruise. There were over 400 of us, and that's the only reunion I
have been to.
D: Okay. Well, is there anything else you would like to add, closing remarks?
A: No, I am glad I did it. I don't know if I'd do it again. I just got an email from one of my Navy friends
the other day, 'why don't they draft 60 year olds instead of 19 year olds?' And it made a lot of sense.
We don't sleep anyway, so it won't bother us getting up at 6. We're grumpy, so give us a gun, we'll mow
down any enemy the country has!
D: That's good.
A: Quit sending the kids over, we know what to do anyway. I remember in '91 when the first Iraqi War
started, a good friend of mine who was in Vietnam in the Air Force, we looked at each other, and he said
�'Boy I'd love to go help. I could drive a truck, do something, love to be over there helping' but of course
you can't join the military after you're 45 years old.
D: Right. Anything else?
A: It was a good experience, it did change my life. I don't know how I did it. It was very scary at times.
It was very hard, shipboard life was not very easy. If either one of my sons was gonna join the military I
would tell them to finish college and become an officer, that's the best way to do it. Don't be an
enlisted man. It's pretty tough. So, anytime I meet a fellow veteran, it's great. Cause we have a special
bond.
D: So okay, well I thank you very much for your time and your service,
A: Thank you
D: Thank you for interviewing me, or interviewing you... alright.
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Title
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Appalachian State University American Military History Course Veterans Oral History Project
Description
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Each semester, the students of the American Military History Course at Appalachian State University conduct interviews with military veterans and record their military experiences in order to create an archive of oral history interviews that are publicly accessible to researchers. The oral histories are permanently available in the Appalachian State University Special Collections. The project is supervised by Dr. Judkin Browning, Associate Professor of History at Appalachian State University and all interviews are transcribed by the student interviewers.
Copyright Notice:
Copyright for the Veterans Oral History Project’s audio and transcripts is held by Appalachian State University. These materials are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Veterans Oral History Project, University Archives and Records, Special Collections, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC).
Oral History
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Interviewee
The person(s) being interviewed.
Huss, Clifton Allen
Interviewer
The person(s) performing the interview.
Huss, Derek
Interview Date
9/23/12
Duration
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0:48:14
File name
2013_063_Huss_CliftonAllen_interview
2013_063_Huss_CliftonAllen_transcript
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Title
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Interview with Allen Huss, 23 September 2012
Creator
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Huss, Derek
Huss, Clifton Allen
Source
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<a title="UA.5018. American Military History Course Records" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/167" target="_blank">UA.5018. American Military History Course Records</a>
Rights
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Copyright for the Veterans Oral History Project's audio and transcripts is held by Appalachian State University. These materials are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used.
Extent
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11 pages
Language
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English
English
Type
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Sound
Subject
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United States
Veterans
Huss, Allen
Interviews
Navy
Radio men
Description
An account of the resource
Allen Huss enlisted in the US Navy in the 1970s and worked as a radioman. He traveled many places by sea, mostly along the Mediterranean Sea, and explains his experience of the Yom Kippur War.
1970
Allen Huss
American Legion
Hanoi
Mediterranean Sea
Navy
radioman
Vietnam
Yom Kippur War