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An Approach to Completing a Senior Officer Oral History
The Military History institute's Senior Officer Oral History Program is an essential component of the Army's efforts to capture and record our history. Its objective is to use student officers assigned to the US Army War College to interview all retired lieutenant generals and general several years after they have retired. These documents, as well as official records and various accounts of historically significant events, provide a very rich and complete account of the past. This paper describes, from the perspective of a student officer, the various steps associated with completing a Senior Officer Oral History. It is hoped that the document will assist future students who become involved in the program. The paper focuses on the importance of research into the subject officer's military career, the importance of an outline which is a key document for communicating proposed ideas to the subject officer, and some innovative ways to employ computer technology in completing the final product. The paper has appended to it an outline as well as the question set which was used in the process of completing a Senior Officer Oral History.
Oral History Interview Handbook
The Senior Officer Oral History Program (SOOHP), a part of the U S army Military History Institute's (MHI) effort to collect significant portions of recent (20th Century) military history from the people who lived it. Several other MHI programs, including Division/Corps Commanders' Lessons Learned and Vietnam era Company Commanders' Lessons Learned, use predetermined questions sets to gather information in a standard format. That greatly simplifies the process for the student interviewer. The commanders' lessons learned tend to contain many similarities and cover a very short portion of an officer's career (focused on a specific job). The SOOHP is essentially the story of a great soldier's life (primarily focused on his military experiences). However, unlike the others, SOOHP participants (USAWC students) have been required to develop a completely new question set each time an oral history is done. This paper presents a baseline set of questions for use in the SOOHP. It discusses tailoring of that set to capture the unique aspects of the subject's life. Additionally, it compares the baseline set with the tailored set of questions utilized in an actual SOOHP interview.
Senior Officer Oral History Program Interview of General (Retired) Louis C. Menetrey. Executive Summary
This paper summarizes information provided by General (Retired) Louis C. Menetrey during interviews conducted by Colonel Jack Th. Weiss in January 1996 as part of the U.S. Army War College/U.S. Army Military History Institute Senior Officer Oral History Program. The summary consists of two parts. The first is a general outline of General Menetrey's personal history covering significant activities and events of his career. The second part is an overview of selected quotes concerning contemporary military problems and strategic thinking.
