| Abstract |
During the course of this interview, Luehman primarily describes his experiences in World War II and, after the war, the events surrounding his duties as a Naval Attaché in the USSR and as the commanding officer of the Naval air station in Trinidad. |
| General note | Interviewer: Donald R. Lennon. Interview date: June 6, 1991. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Earl A. Luehman Oral History Interview (#OH0129), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Earl A. Luehman. |
| Biographical note | Earl Arthur Luehman (b. 1918) graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1941. He was subsequently stationed aboard the USS HELENA as a turret officer and saw action in Pearl Harbor and Guadalcanal. He then attended flight school, receiving his wings in September 1943, and flew Navy Privateers and B-24's for the remainder of World War II for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. After the war, he was an instructor at Iowa State University in Naval Science and Navigation (1950-1952), served as the Commanding Officer of the US Naval Station in Trinidad (1959-1962), and was the Naval Operations officer during the Pacific atomic bomb tests (1958-1959). In the 1960s he served as the Country Director for the Caribbean Islands, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, and French Guinea in the Western Hemisphere Regional Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (1966-1967), served two years as the Naval Attache to the USSR (1963-1965) and served three years as the Naval, Defense and Naval Air attache in Greece (1968-1971). After retirement in 1971, he worked for a subsidiary of NCR in the early 1970s. |
