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- Retired Air Force Colonel Eleanor M. Carey talks about her youth and education in Pennsylvania, her long U.S. Air Force career and her service in the Vietnam War. After graduating from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Cary says that she joined the Air Force on October 19, 1955. She says that after basic and advanced training, she was first stationed in Beirut, Lebanon and later volunteered for duty in Vietnam when that war heated up. Cary talks about treating Vietnamese civilians as part of the military's MEDCAP program, her living conditions at U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay and working as a flight nurse in air-evac and taking causalities to medical care directly from the battlefield. Carey says that as a capstone to her Vietnam service, she escorted future Senator John McCain when he was released from a North Vietnamese prison in 1973. She says that she retired from the Air Force in October 1979 and that she "loved every minute" of her career. Carey is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart and Patricia Martin.
- Date Issued:
- 2007-03-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Mildred Blandford talks about her service as a secretary in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Blandford, who served from August 1944 to November 1945, says that she joined the Red Cross for overseas adventure and spent most of her time stationed at the 194th General Hospital in Paris. She says that she was quartered in a Parisian hotel with maid service, but that service in the hospital was no picnic and meant leaving her secretarial duties often to help care for the onslaught of wounded soldiers. After VE Day, Blandford says that she volunteered for duty in the Pacific and was sent to Okinawa where she found herself living in a tent rather than luxury hotel. She talks about her daily tasks and again helping out with wounded G.I.s. and describes two typhoons that hit the island and how staff tried to protect the patients in the tent hospital from the storm. At war's end, Blandford says that she returned to Louisville to work, but later went back to Paris for school and to work for NATO. Blandford is interviewed by Dorothy M. Harrison.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Virginia P. O'Rourke Immerman talks about her service in the Women's Army Air Corps in 1944, during World War Two. Immerman talks about growing up in Boston and enlisting in the WAACs when wartime life became boring, training at Fort Oglethorpe, being assigned to the Air Transport Command (ATC) at Love Field in Dallas, and finally being sent to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic which served as a stopover for aircraft flying between the U.S. and the Pacific Theater of Operations. She describes life on the island, the climate, the natives and their culture, and her duties in the Quartermaster Office. Immerman says that she was later sent to England and France with the ATC after VE-Day and describes being in Paris on VJ-Day, traveling the continent, skiing in Switzerland and finally shipping back to the States, being discharged in June 1946, using the G.I. Bill to get an undergraduate degree in 1950 and later working as a civilian in Europe. Immerman is interviewed by Virginia Emrich.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Lee Gordhammer talks about her service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942 to 1945. Gordhammer says she chose to work in motor transportation and became both an instructor and a skilled mechanic. She describes dodging "buzz-bombs" while in England, landing at Omaha Beach in July 1944, and ending the war in Paris. Gordhammer also discusses why she enlisted, her pre-war employment, military living conditions, uniforms, using the G.I. Bill to finish her education after the war, and finally working at the U.S. State Department.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Hall of Fame basketball player, entrepreneur and activist Earvin "Magic" Johnson, urges young Americans to get covered with the Affordable Care Act. Johnson recounts his own health issues including injuries and an HIV Positive diagnosis. He advocates for regular check-ups and early detection.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this installment of "Welcome to Kalamazoo," Dr. Willis Dunbar profiles the U.S. Navy exhibit appearing in Kalamazoo. The mayor of Kalamazoo, Henry Ford, and the presidents of the Senior and Junior Chambers of Commerce, John Klosterman and Fred Maymer, welcome the exhibit to Kalamazoo. U.S. Naval Officer John Jay Morgan, commander of the exhibit, describes the installation to listeners and talks about some of the exhibit's highlights. Part of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum WKZO Transcription Disc Collection.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-07-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden speak to the winners of the 2011 National Association of Police Organizations TOP COPS award for valor in the line of duty. The ceremony is held in the White House Rose Garden. Obama also announces that he is asking FBI Director Robert Mueller to stay on the job for two more years.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-05-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama announces his nomination of three candidates for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Obama charges that the Senate has deliberately refused to bring previous nominations to a vote and challenges the body to act quickly. The nominees are: Cornelia T.L. Pillard, a law professor; Patricia Ann Millett, an appellate lawyer; and Robert L. Wilkins, a federal district judge.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-06-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Donald Trump speaks to employees in the lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in Langley, VA. Trump uses the appearance to praise the agency, says that the agency has not been used properly to fight ISIS, and asserts his belief that the U.S. bungled its exit from Iraq by not taking the country's oil which he claims is funding terrorist activities. Vice President Mike Pence introduces Trump. Meroe Park, Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, introduces Pence.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-01-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama, standing at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches. Obama says that the Selma marches were part of a "broader campaign that spanned generations," and suggests that the work of the campaign for freedom is not yet complete. He asks the members of congress in the audience to go back to Washington and find the support needed to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and also calls on all Americans to work together to "continually try to improve this great nation of ours."
- Date Issued:
- 2015-03-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection