Oral history interview with Robert Hoe, 2003 September 20.

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Oral history interview with Robert Hoe, 2003 September 20.

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Interview with Robert Hoe, engineer, nuclear physicist, and Navy veteran (Sino-American Cooperative Organization), concerning his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Pre-war education at the University of Rochester; enlistment in the Navy, July, 1943; midshipman's school, Columbia University, 1943-44; volunteering for training with Navy Scouts, Raiders, and Underwater Demolition Teams, Fort Pierce, Florida, 1944; assignment to China as a part of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization, 1944; assignment to Camp 6 behind Japanese lines near Amoy; training of Chinese for guerrilla warfare and underwater demolitions; aborted raid on Wosu Island; harassment of Japanese troops; coastwatching activities; collecting meteorological data; comments about General Tai Li, chief of the Chinese Nationalist intelligence service and head of SACO; postwar education and work in various nuclear reactor programs.

47 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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