Peter Luitwieler oral history interview
Description
Oral history of Peter E. Luitwieler, Class of 1964, son of Clarence Seward Luitwieler, Class of 1924, for the Dartmouth Vietnam Project. Luitwieler describes his experience as a Dartmouth student participating in the 3-2 program with the Tuck School of Business. Luitwieler shares his experience participating in freshman hockey and football, playing on the rugby team, joining Phi Delta Alpha, and majoring in Spanish. He describes his experience with the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and being classified as 4-F (not fit for service). He describes how his classification was changed and how he was later drafted. Luitwieler discusses his time in Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning. He tells how he wanted to go to language school to learn Vietnamese but was instead selected for Army intelligence and was sent to Fort Holabird, Maryland. Luitwieler describes being sent to the northernmost part of Vietnam, the Qu?ng Trj Province. He describes his participation in the Phoenix Program and his job performing military intelligence during the Vietnam War.
Dates
- 2016-02-06
Language of Materials
English
Extent
4 Files (1 .docx transcript (37 pages); 1 .docx transcript word list; 1. pdf transcript (37 pages); 1 .wav audio file (1 hour, 14 minutes, 35 seconds))
Part of the Rauner Library Archives and Manuscripts Repository