An excerpt from an oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, conducted on 1 March 2004 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Fox, an Executive Officer on board LSM-80 in the US Navy during...
Excerpts from the reminiscences of Roy C. Avery, recorded in June 1971 by Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery and Rev. William Dixon Gray. The recording is part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Avery recalls the boredom and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, conducted on 1 March 2004 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Fox, an Executive Officer on board LSM-80 in the US Navy during...
A photograph of the tombstone of William Driver in Nashville City Cemetery, 2000. Driver is credited with nicknaming the American flag "Old Glory." A master mariner, on an 1831 voyage to the South Pacific aboard the 110-ton whaler Charles Doggett,...
A photograph of the U.S.S. Nashville (LPD-13), 1969, as viewed off the starboard quarter. It is an Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD) of the Austin-class, designed to embark, transport, and land elements of a landing force by sea or air during...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Robert Marshall, conducted on 17 September 2007 by StoryCorps Facilitator Kate Wingate at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, conducted on 1 March 2004 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Fox, an Executive Officer on board LSM-80 in the US Navy during...