Robert T. Tidwell Jr. oral history, 2007 [videorecording].

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Robert T. Tidwell Jr. oral history, 2007 [videorecording].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779100479

The interview provides information and personal observations about Tidwell's experiences: living in N.Y., attending trade school in Brooklyn, working for an aircraft company on deferment; enlisted because his brother survived being on a Navy ship that was blown up; assignment to the 10th Mountain Division and being sent to Naples, Italy; being with Company C at Riva Ridge; Mount Belvedere; German 88mm guns, minefields and other obstructions, being reprimanded for killing a chicken; going to Mount della Spe and saving the life of Willie Weems; killing a sniper; Lake Garda and the DUKW transport; memories after the war.

1 videodisc (42 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videocassette (42 min. : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.) +1 envelope

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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