Description
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World War II and in the Army in the Korean War, discusses the differences in his service during two wars, serving in two branches of the military, during times of both racial segregation and integration. He also compares the food in the two conflicts. The complete interview, as well as an index, is available in the repository.
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Nashville Public LibraryRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of TennesseeKeywords
- African Americans
- Carlew, James, 1927
- Interviews
- Korean War
- Korean War, 1950 1953
- Military History
- Military Life
- Operational Rations (Military Supplies)
- Participation, African American
- Personal Narratives, American
- Race Relations
- Segregation
- Tennessee
- United States
- United States. Army
- United States. Navy
- Veterans
- Veterans History Project (U.S.)
- World War Ii
- World War, 1939 1945