Interview of retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Barbara Pratt-LeMahieu on her career in the military
- Description:
- Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Barbara Pratt-LeMahieu talks about her childhood in Salem, Massachusetts and her career in the U.S. Air Force which included service during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Pratt-LeMahieu says that she enlisted in 1948, took basic and administrative training in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and later worked as secretary for the Strategic Air Command in Colorado Springs and as a secretary at March AFB in California during the Korean War. After officer candidate school, she says that she was commissioned a second lieutenant and served as a public information administrator in Montana, until she volunteered to go to occupied Japan in 1955. In 1967, Pratt-Lemahieu says that she volunteered for service as a personnel services administrator in Vietnam and talks about hearing shelling on her way to work each day and her experiences during the Tet Offensive in 1968. Pratt-Lemahieu is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart and Carol Hapgood. She is assisted in recalling the details of her answers by her husband, Jim LaMahieu.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-01-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Place:
- Japan, Vietnam, Wyoming, and Cheyenne
- Subject Topic:
- Career in military, Military life, Foreign service, Foreign service, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Veterans, Women veterans, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Participation, Female, Military education, and Tet Offensive, 1968
- Subject Name:
- Pratt-LeMahieu, Barbara, 1930-2007, Pratt-LeMahieu, Barbara, 1930-2007, United States, Air Force, United States, Air Force, United States, and Air Force
- Subject Genre:
- Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, and Personal narratives, American
- Language:
- English
- Rights:
- In Copyright
- URL:
- https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5c70r