Interview of retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Barbara Pratt-LeMahieu on her career in the military
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.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2004-01-14
- Interviewees
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Pratt-LeMahieu, Barbara, 1930-2007
- Interviewers
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Stewart, Ruth F.
Habgood, Carol A., 1940-
- Speakers
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LeMahieu, Jim
- Contributors
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University of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries
- Subjects
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Pratt-LeMahieu, Barbara, 1930-2007
United States. Air Force
Tet Offensive (1968)
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Armed Forces--Foreign service
Armed Forces--Military life
Military education
Military participation--Female
Veterans
Women veterans
Japan
Vietnam
Wyoming--Cheyenne
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:31:37
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 35413
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11890079
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