Interview of Mary Tener Davidson Hall on her service as an U.S. Air Force officer from 1951 to 1956
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.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2004-02-18
- Interviewees
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Hall, Mary Tener Davidson
- Interviewers
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Stewart, Ruth F.
- Contributors
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University of Texas at San Antonio. Libraries
- Subjects
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Hall, Mary Tener Davidson
United States. Air Force
Korean War (1950-1953)
Air forces--Procurement
Armed Forces--Foreign service
Armed Forces--Military life
Marriage
Military education
Military participation--Female
Veterans
Women veterans
Alabama--Montgomery
Florida--Eglin Air Force Base
Japan
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:41:04
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 35391
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11878492
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