- Collection:
- Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Oral history interview of Roger H. Amidon
- Creator:
- Boone, Jack W.
Amidon, Roger H., 1928- - Date of Original:
- 2006-04-05
- Subject:
- Radioteletype
Draft--United States
V-mail
Eichelberger, Robert Lawrence, 1886-1961
Hope, Bob, 1903-2003
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 5th
American Legion
United States. Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
United States. Army Air Forces--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
radio teletype
conscription, military
Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952 - Location:
- Japan, Nagoya-shi, 35.1851045, 136.8998438
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Illinois, Scott Air Force Base, 38.543912, -89.847472145009
United States, Mississippi, Harrison County, Keesler Air Force Base, 30.40718, -88.92539
United States, Ohio, North Ridgeville, 41.3894905, -82.0190321 - Medium:
- video recordings (physical artifacts)
vhs - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/quicktime
- Description:
- In this interview, Roger Amidon relates his experiences with the draft, becoming part of the United States Army Air Forces, and the occupation forces in Japan after World War II. He describes life as a communications mechanic, his mustering out, and what he did after his term of enlistment ended.
Roger Amidon was in the U.S. Army Air Forces in occupied Japan after World War II. - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VHPohr/id/391
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 17:33
- Original Collection:
- Veterans History Project oral history recordings
Veterans History Project collection, MSS 1010, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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