Interview of Mary Tener Davidson Hall on her service as an U.S. Air Force officer from 1951 to 1956

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Description:

Mary Hall talks about her service as an Air Force officer from 1951 to 1956. Hall says that she enlisted in the Air Force as a Second Lieutenant in November 1951 and discusses her duties in the U.S., being sent to Japan in May 1953 as supply officer, and later to Eglin AFB in Florida with the same assignment. She says that while attending Squadron Officers School in Montgomery, AL, as one of five women in a class of 500 men, she met her husband, married him right after the course finished and left the Air Force in 1956 to start a family. After the Air Force, in addition to raising her family, Hall says that she attend graduate school, did volunteer work, sold real estate and after her husband died in 1991, moved to the Air Force Village in San Antonio and married again. Hall is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.

Date Issued:

2004-02-18T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

Japan, Alabama, Montgomery, and Eglin Air Force Base (Fla.)

Subject Topic:

Marriage, Military life, Foreign service, Women veterans, Korean War, 1950-1953, Veterans, Korean War, 1950-1953, Korean War, 1950-1953, Participation, Female, Air forces, Procurement, and Military education

Subject Name:

Hall, Mary Tener Davidson, Hall, Mary Tener Davidson, Hall, Mary Tener Davidson, United States, Air Force, United States, Air Force, United States, and Air Force

Subject Genre:

Interviews, Anecdotes, Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, and Personal narratives, American

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5n406