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Franklin Omsted Pitzer
U.S. Army
1950s-1970s
Vietnam War
November 2, 2012
Haley Kearns: Today is November 2, 2012. I am Haley Kearns and I will be interviewing Frank
Pitzer for my American Military History Class at Appalachian State University. You ready to
begin the interview?
Franklin Omsted Pitzer: Yes ma’am. I guess I can start from basics, like Haley…Haley said
I’m Franklin Omsted Pitzer named after my maternal grandfather, Franklin Omsted Baxter and
… I grew up most…uh…most of my twelve years in California and then we went to what was
capitol district New York, the Albany area. I uh graduated from high school there. I had…a
concept of going to college, but didn’t go because Korea was there and then all of that that
followed, so I went in and had a…was gonna enlist but patriotism was very high and I was a
young kid and bottom enlist, so this being so, all of the branches were plum full, you know? First
thing was try the Marine Corp and then the Navy, and then all the other branches and I wound up
volunteering for the…ah…draft. It took three months for them to draft me, went from induction
in Albany to...ah…to a packet in Fort Dix, New Jersey, to my basic training at…ah…Fort Riley
with the Tenth Mountain Division…ah…we happened to be the right number to fatten out the
Tenth Mountain Division, so…uh…that was what happened to all of us we joined in a packet,
we wound up at Fort Riley, we rotated with the Tenth Mountain Division under…ah…the
operation gyroscope with the entirety, sent units…uh…to Hamburg, Germany…Germany
and…ah…was lucky enough to be in a unique situation which was sort of unusual. Usually you
went in, you took basic, you got shipped somewhere to another unit and …uh…ah… you know
by the time you had a stripe on your arm or something you had been in several other units, you
know like that? I found that I like the military very much and so…ah…I had gotten married just
before I went into the military. I felt…felt that that was the…the situation being is if I didn’t like
the military I’d come home and stoke the home fires. Well, I found that I like the military. I
stoked the home fires because home was anywhere Uncle Sam sent me.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: So they initially sent me to Hamburg, Germany and I had a full tour there with the Tenth
Mountain Division. I was…ah…started out taking basic at Fort Riley, you know like that, and
then I was with …ah…I became a Box Sargent with…and then a Sargent E5 and I was
with…with communications and so we were a different, rather unique group in that we were
very proud of what we were, but we were soldiers.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: And so naturally took basic, qualified with your weaponry every…every year…ah…kept
your military subjects at the bases and wore my uniform, I think I was so proud I probably could
have busted the buttons if they…if they would have popped. And so I stayed in the…with
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�the…ah…with the 85th infantry…ah…and went to the rank of Sargent, and I know a lot of
people thought I was crazy but I took what they called a burst of six, my first enlistment it was
six years. And the military was to me the culmination of a young man’s desires to serve his
country. So I was extremely fortunate. I went to the rank of Sargent like I said and I …ah…went
along until it was in…in the late ‘50s, early ‘60s when the …ah… there was a lot of turmoil in
the military with people getting out and coming back in and trying to decide what they would do,
etc., etc. So I enlisted for six years and with that enlistment of six years, I …ah…looked the
Army over and said this is where I wanted to be. I had…ah…a lot of background in mechanics
so…ah…they had an old Kohler…ah…Kohler generator that needed to be
over…ah…overhauled, rebuilt, and I had a platoon leader, a young lieutenant and he said “I have
this engine, does anybody know?” And I walked up to him and I didn’t even know how to
appropriately report to him. And Sargent Brewer was a tremendous Sargent and he looked down
at me and he says “Sargent come to brace,” so I snapped to attention and I apologized to
Lieutenant Chetty and from then I knew I was his number one boy so simply because I had
overhauled Valley Chomers, farm hauls, John Deeres, Remmele ...ah…Kohler…Kohler
generators and everything, just had a good mechanical background. So, went ahead
and…ah…became the power generation person and with that came a Corporal stripe, and as you
progress along and confidence…confidence is building yourself and your fellow troops and the
whole morale of the unit just seems to cement together, and hey this is where it’s at. And so with
that mentality, like I said I took a burst of six. And when that happened they needed a Motor
Sargent, and, well, most of what I was working on (laughs) had to do Peaky ten to twelve inch
tires, you know, the…the only difference between that and a motorized vehicle that you pushed
around and one that drove itself around was the transmission and so on and so forth. But just
being mechanical and having worked around all this a lot of my life before I went in the service,
why, it just expanded and next thing you knew, why, rotated back out of Germany and
…ah…(coughs) when we went back over to Germany I was a Motor Sargent in an artillery unit.
And…from there I considered myself very lucky because the unit that I went to, we were
responsible for…ah…for preposition…ah…firing positions of part of NATO on the
….Neurenb…no, the Frankfurt…ah…Nuremburg Autobahn. And…ah…well, what it meant
when we had an alert was we were…were trained that at such and such a time if the alert
sounded we deployed to our vehicles and the vehicles deployed to a given spot, and we would be
established there until the drill was over with or the threat if there…one existed was…taken care
of and we could return back to our unit and went along til the next alert. And we had monthly
alerts which was all part of NATO, and…ah…so I progressed from being just a…typical, very
proud American soldier to thinking, well, hey, I could really enjoy this service. And so the next
thing I knew I had applied…I had applied with Northern Area Command under Seventh Army to
be a Warrant Officer. And…being a young Sargent and fortunately promoted and people knew
me well…ah…I went to the board and satisfactory passed the board and so I come home a
wobbly one, which is what they call a (laughs) a Warrant Officer First Class. And…ah…I got
sworn in under General Norris and General Norris was a…was the...ah…Seventh Infantry
Division…ah…the Commander Infantry…Seventh Infantry Division Artillery Commander.
And…ah…I’ll never forget how good it felt to walk outside and nobody knew whether I was a
hundred and twenty years old or less than five minutes with…carrying my bar. And there is a
tradition in the army…is…and I hope it still goes on, I don’t know, I haven’t been near it and
made that inquiry, but the first person who salutes you, you bring him around in front of me and
you sort of like “hey, troop, post yourself,” and so that gentleman, or the young…young Private,
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�or PFC as it usually were would be…would be just thinking “Oh my God, what have I done?”
And so you just proceed to make him feel like he’s the lowest thing other than the dirt that he’s
standing on, and it’s all part of you “chewing out” the first troop that salutes you as an officer. So
here I was…ah…a W1, hardly know how to put on my bars and…and this young PFC walked by
me and that’s when…naturally enough if it moves and it has a bar on it you salute it, so he
snapped to and…and he…and it was in the afternoon, just after noon, and he “Good afternoon,
Sir!” And he started to walk on, just as would be customary, and I whipped around and I
said…like I said I told him to post in front of me and I asked him, “Do you know what you’ve
just done?” And my gosh, you know, I guess he thought he had done…really done something
terrible, so when I explained the situation to him he burst out in a big smile and I said “Son, this
will probably be the first and the last time an officer will ever hug you unless it’s in your family”
and I said “Thank you, you have made my day.” And I…I handed him the dollar and he looked
up at me and Sargent Major were…you know and I was…was…in the Division…in the Division
Artillery Headquarters door and he smiled and he said “Well done Mr. Pitzer.” And that’s what
they call Warrants regardless of what they are…W1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on, they expanded the
ranks and …ah…he said “I’m looking forward to seeing you in the motor pool.” And I said
“Sargent Major are always welcomed in my motor pool and if you got any problem that it can’t
be fixed, I’ll personally fix it.” And he said “that won’t be necessary.” He said “I’m sure you will
have a staff ready to go in…in quick order.” And so with that I started my career as a Warrant
Officer and moved through the ranks. And I retired as a W4 from Fort Bragg (clears throat) Fort
Bragg…ah…I was what they called a Post Corp, Maintain Chief. But I had…ah…skirmishes
here and there and elsewhere, primarily Vietnam and …ah…other than that…other than being
grateful that I was not wounded…ah…I must admit that I was always walking with a loaded
weapon and I was always ready to use it because that’s how I…that’s how I was trained and
besides being a Motor Officer and a Warrant Officer I knew these young men that worked under
me and to this day I can remember many of their names and everything and I told myself I will
never lose one of America’s best
Kearns: Uh, huh
Pitzer: to some stupid stunt that I pulled. And by that I meant whatever it could have been, that I
could have contributed to that. And I was lucky enough to work for Special Forces at Duc Loc
which is…ah…was part of Fifth Special Forces. I carried a coin that they gave me as part of
the…ah…as being part of that team…ah…I was nom…nominated for a…a Silver Star but it got
lost in the normal…ah…MOA which is military ordinary mail. Things get lost and so what? I
know I was nominated, I know I served with some of the finest that America ever put in line.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: I’m…very proud that…that when we were stationed in Fort George G. Meade that we
were responsible for riot control and etc. I did…show how…what a fool I might have been in
that when we came back from Vietnam, we were going to the supply area and being reissued
things and I was flipped a flak jacket and …and I threw it back to the…the supply Sargent and
said “Why do I need this…blank thing?” (Kearns laughs) And he said “Because you’ll have to
wear a flak jacket if you go to our nation’s capital.” I said “Like blank the day that I wear a flak
jacket in my nation’s capital it’ll be a free fl…flier zone.” And unbeknownst to me and many
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�other people that when new people came into their unit the then commanding general of Fort G.
Meade more or less perused as they went past the Supply Sargent and he said “Pick that up
mister.” And that…I whipped around and there stood a Two Star General and said “You got your
wish.” He said “You’ll be responsible for the hard column which means tanks and heavy guns
and things.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: And…ah…when they had riots they just placed a regiment of…ah…infantry from the
82nd Airborne and it would go up and be...be housed in the…ah…commerce building which
looks out at the Capitol and my mouth got me loaded up that when it and if such a situation
happened that they had to deploy to secure the ellipse that I would be responsible for six
Sheridans and six heavy tanks forty-eight A1s, medium tanks and…and that was it. The situation
never came about, but I considered myself very lucky to have been part of…ah…of a team that
would have defended our Capitol if for whatever reason and for whatever unfortunate
circumstance American citizens or whatever turned against and rioted in our Capitol.
So…ah…that…that was it. And that happened to me twice when I went back to…ah…to that
area of…assignment, but I had twenty-four years in the service as a Warrant Officer…ah…I
worked with the finest and I…I’m sure that if I had been in the Marine Corps I would have
thought that, if I had been in the Navy I would have thought that
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: if I had been in the Air Force, cause there was nothing finer than American fighting men.
And I get dewy eyed just thinking about how prepared we are for war and how willing our young
men and women are and how many of them are coming back.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: Not…not whole as we would consider it whole but proud of every darn thing they do
Kearns: Yeah
Pitzer: and every darn thing they’ve did. And so I would say to…anybody it isn’t…it isn’t what
you do, it’s who you are, and if you’re an American, you serve your country.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: And I see these wonderful young men and women that are going now, off proud and
ready to do whatever they have to do, like so many before them did, like I hope I did, and that I
might have…have expressed that confidence I’m an American
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: I’m an American fighting man and if there is anything better I haven’t seen it. And so
I’m very patriotic. I’m very dedicated to our country, to our veterans. And we’ve all took
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�our…their place. My father told me about Guadalcanal. He and so many other people have told
me about different battles and things and veterans compare notes, you know, and you know we
joke about it, and there I was surrounded by ten this and that and ten of that and…and make
jokes about the fact that we’ve seen combat. But deep down inside all of us are American and all
of us are very proud to be veterans. And no one service does it all by itself, we’re dedicated, we
cooperate, we have proven over the years that the American ideal I am an American fighting
man is…is…it goes on to the fact that we have integrated our services and you don’t know how
wonderful it is when you see…like you’ll see this upcoming Veteran’s Day, Old Glory standing
tall, our national colors going down through and men and women marching together to make this
a safer, more complete, and God fearing nation that we have been ever since our inception. And I
only can say that the young men and women who are in school right now, do the very best you
can…scholastically. When you…you go into whatever branch of service it is, be the proudest
person that you ever have known to put on that uniform. Serve your country, be able to look
down at the little tow heads and rub their heads and say whatever it is you’ll say to them and that
they’re so darn proud to be an American you can’t stand it. And let’s keep this country free.
Kearns: That’s really good advice.
Pitzer: Thank you
Kearns: You said that your dad, he served in the military as well?
Pitzer: He was a…he was a…an army man and he served at Guadalcanal. Ah…he just told
me…never ever forget who you are and where you’re going and that you’re an American and
that…that held me in…in stead. And when you…when you look and you stand out there as a
Platoon Sargent, when you stand out there as a Platoon Leader, when you stand out there and
you’re in formation and there is your Captain, there is your Major, there is your…your Battalion
Staff, your Commanding General, you…you really feel good.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: And people joke about it, there’s a word…the word that is passed to the command when
you see all the troops so beautifully in line and so trim and so true, so exact, walk in front of the
reviewing stand and that’s pass and review. I bet your chest grows three inches, you stand six
feet tall, and you see your guide arm which is your unit flag and in front of that is our national
colors, Old Glory, and that’s it in all her glory. And the…battalion or regimental staff depending
on what the size of the operation of review is. And we joke about the…the ah…band being the
drum and stumble Corp. I tell you what, when you hear the words pass and review and then the
commander of troops, you hear this “Forward harch,” and they step off and there isn’t…there
isn’t one foot that isn’t on the ground constantly, just like it’s supposed to be. And every time
that…that drum drops, and Old Glory waves, and you go on you say “This is what it’s all about,
it’s been worth all the dirt, the mud, the smarty pants Sargent who makes you feel like a
monkey,” and then as proud as if you were the whole army itself. That’s…that’s military life. I
mean, like I say I was…was a soldier, but had I been a…a marine, a sailor, an Air Force man.
Kearns: Mmhmm
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�Pitzer: Or whatever the branch might have been, I would have still be just as proud. And when
you see all your different branches of services on Armed Forces Day and other days of national
celebration, pass and review, it makes you so darn proud, you stand there and you cry cause
you’re not ashamed, you’re proud.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: And you want to let them know that…that this is your country, our country. And that’s
all I can say is that being a veteran and having had the pleasure to serve my country, if it ever
came to it and God forbid that they take men my age again, I would be out there again. But,
you’ve got to be young, you’ve got to be full of vim and vinegar and patriotism to be a good
anything, no matter what you are in uniform and this country’s got it. That’s all I can say is
Veteran’s Day is…is just another way of saying thank you. And you know you just…just thank
the young men and women in uniform, but remember they didn’t get here without mom and dad.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: Mom and dad took their turn and on down through history. As you…as you look back
there’s always been a group of dedicated Americans willing to go that extra mile. And that’s
what I would leave you with.
Kearns: You were talking about the importance of parents, when…when were you born and
when did you decide that the military was where you wanted to go, was it something that your
parents talked a lot about growing up, patriotism or…?
Pitzer: I was March 15, 1935, that’s the old original income tax day. And I can remember so
vividly…when Pearl Harbor got struck. I was playing in the mud, in the sand, and running
around stubbling my toes, but I had…I was part of an adopted twelve boys, like I told ya. And
…and…all the uncles, they got in their cars, two by two, you might say.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: And went to Victorville, California and joined a branch of the service. And Aunt Mary,
bless her heart, she was a very God fearing, we called her Grandma Bird, Aunt Mary, but she
was the matriarch of that…that family unit. And she knew when those boys went in the uniform,
she knew when they debarked from the continental United States, she just had that…that
feeling…and she gave all twelve boys, she was a twelve gold star mother, but so proud, so God
fearing, so glad to have been done her part as a mother. And she was no different than…than any
other mother in this world, who ser…served her family, served her country.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: And that…that’s…that’s when I became aware that no matter what happened that one
day…if I didn’t die before I was old enough to and capable to, I would become an American
military man and serve my country. And I just am so grateful that most all of us people that are
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�like myself feel that way, because there is one thing that you’ll never forget is…is your country.
And just because it…it may skip a generation does not mean that you have not served.
Kearns: That’s definitely true
Pitzer: And this is…this is what makes America so special to me. Is….I have truly lived the
American dream. Whatever you might concur or might not concur is the American dream, the
American dream to me was being born American, having the right to go to free public school, to
pledge allegiance to my flag, to sing our national anthem, and other patriotic songs, and to serve
our country both on our own immediate soil and anywhere where our American flag went. And
that’s the substance…substance of it.
Kearns: Yeah. You said that you were in Germany for a while.
Pitzer: Yes
Kearns: Where else were you during your service?
Pitzer: Ah…Well I got Vietnam…ah…I was on the DMZ in…in Korea…ah…we (laughs) joke
about how hard it was to be in…in riot control cause it was from the standpoint of there were
Americans who were rioting for what they thought was right and there were those of us in
uniform standing there saying that maybe you’re right, but for God’s sakes, don’t ever make the
mistake of disgracing your flag, your home, your country. I don’t think there’s a military person
that’s ever served in…during the situations when we had our Americans standing in…in a street
trying to tell other Americans protest if you must, but remember first and foremost you’re
American. And I am…just…just so glad that whatever has happened and whatever will happen
that I was born American,
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: I’ve lived American, and that I will die American.
Kearns: Yeah…that’s…yeah. You talked about the protesting…
Pitzer: Yeah
Kearns: You said you talked about the protesting here…happening here, were you informed of it
regularly, or was it just more…
Pitzer: When I was stationed at Fort George G. Mead and stationed in a unit there, our sole
purpose was to deploy and I was in charge…to be in charge of a hard column, the Sheridan
tanks, and M40A1 tanks that would, God forbid, we ever had to deploy to our nation’s capital to
keep it safe against our own people through ignorance who were protesting what they didn’t
fully understand, but had a right to protest.
Kearns: Mmhmm
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�Pitzer: That…I just prayed that I would do what I had to do, but pray that that would never mean
that I would have to take an American life in execution of what I was there to do.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: And I don’t think I’m any different than any other American that’s ever stood in a…in a
riot line or anything else like that because it was not…not what I was doing…what was wrong or
was it right, it was American, and what they were doing was American, but we just happened to
have (coughs) a different sheet of music that we were marching to.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: In America and only in American can…can you say that.
Kearns: You said you served the tail end of the Korean War and during the Vietnam War…
Pitzer: I was on the DMZ, I…when I was assigned in Korea during the Cold War, ha ha
(coughs) I was in charge of the site that looked up what they called the Wo Chan which was that
part of Korea up from Pan Mun Jon where there was a North Korean barracks in the Wo Chan
Valley and their…their purpose was if anything ever happened between North and South Korea
that they would come across the DMZ. So they were doing their thing and we were doing our
thing. And as…I’m sure as proud as I was to be an American and to stand there and tell them as
long as you stay up there, we can wave to one another.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: We can be friends. But the day you come across, with a weapon in your hand,
discharging as we…you would be required to do.
Kearns: Hmm
Pitzer: May God forgive me, you are then my enemy.
Kearns: Yeah
Pitzer: And I tried to tell our people that I was responsible for up there never ever let your guard
down, you are an American.
Kearns: Did you feel like you were prepared when you headed in to Korea or was it learning on
your feet once you got there?
Pitzer: No, I…I knew that…that some, one of us in American uniform had to be on the DMZ as
they had been ever since the DMZ was established. And to this day I have gone to our nation’s
capital ready to prevent riot through what…whatever ignorance or misunderstanding that it may
have come about. But I don’t…I don’t regret for one minute my military service. I’m proud of it,
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�I’m proud of my country, I’m proud of these beautiful young men and women who go on and
carry on…and are prepared to do whatever they need to, but they’re still preparing for their
future. And they are the young men and women that will become the old men and women who
will look onto their grandchildren and their line and say “Been there, done that, I’m an
American, I’m very proud.”
Kearns: How long were you in the military? How old were you when you joined and how old
were you when you…
Pitzer: I spent twenty-four years in the service, and I volunteered for the draft and had to wait
three months before I could go in because of the…the allocation.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: Ah…I wanted to first join the Marines, well it didn’t take long to find out that there
was…this was…I was still in school, but there was…there was such patriotism that all of the
quotas were full.
Kearns: Mmhmm
Pitzer: And like I say, I volunteered for the draft and I waited three months in order to be called
to go into the service. And I went into the U.S. Army, I don’t regret it a minute, I’m proud of my
service, I’m proud of my country, and when Old Glory flutters in the wind, she flutters there for
me and everybody I’ve ever known and ever will know. This is our country.
Kearns: Yeah
Pitzer: And as a veteran, I don’t regret one moment. And when people will…will say what they
will regardless of what they might, it matters not. We are American, we serve our country and by
so doing we secure the world for the oncoming generations that have…have no idea how
wonderful it is, although some of it is limited to be born free, that…that’s the whole thing.
Kearns: Thank you so much for your time.
Pitzer: Well, thank you.
Kearns: As previously stated, it is November 2, 2012 and I have conducted this interview in
High Point, North Carolina for my American Military History Class. Thank you so much Frank
for your time.
Pitzer: Well, thank you and I thank you for the education you’ve got, the effort you’ve made,
and it is the young men and women like you that will keep this nation strong.
Kearns: Thank you.
Pitzer: Thank you.
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Interview with Franklin Omsted Pitzer [November 2, 2012]
Type
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Oral History
Language
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English
English
Creator
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Kearns, Haley
Pitzer, Franklin Omsted
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>
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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.
Description
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Franklin Pitzer made a career in the army and served for over 20 years. He trained at Fort Riley as a part of the 10th Mountain Division and was first deployed to Hamburg. He had many jobs in the army, such as motor sergeant and warrant officer.
Subject
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Pitzer, Franklin Omsted
Veterans
United States
Interviews
10th Mountain Division
Fort Riley
Franklin Pitzer
Hamburg
Motor Sergeant
US Army
Vietnam
Warrant Officer