Oral history interview with Ben S. Custer 1965
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- Name
- Custer, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Scott), 1905-2002 (Interviewee)
- Mason, John T., 1909-1998 (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Ben S. Custer 1965
- Abstract
- Family background, childhood; Naval Academy; early cruises; Pensacola, flight training; flying boat squadron, Alaska; teaching at Annapolis; Caribbean Sea Frontier, Admiral John Hoover; executive officer, CROATAN; Admiral John Vest; command of the NORTON SOUND; World War II; Atlantic and Pacific theaters; atomic bomb; Flight Safety Board, Pay Board; Naval Attache ́to Canada; Northwest cruise to Hud son's Bay; Floyd Bennett Field; Strauss Commission; Princeton, Impressions of contemporaries in the Navy and of government officials; discussion of strategy and battle plans, World Wars I and II.
- Collection Name
- Naval history project
- Subjects
- Veterans; Air pilots; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; World War, 1914-1918; Aeronautics, Military; Canada Description and travel; Custer, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Scott), 1905-2002; United States Naval Academy; United States. Navy
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1965
- Note (Biographical)
- Naval officer.
- Note
- Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. on August 6, 1963; July 30, August 6, August 17, November 19, December 2, December 16, and December 30, 1964; and February 24, March 2, March 4, March 11, and April 27, 1965.
- Note (Provenance)
- Ben S. Custer, Gift 1965
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 10384073
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-r10f-w150
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.