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Camp Evans Oral Histories

This guide (Under construction) lists the numerous 'Oral Histories' related to Camp Evans.

NOTES ON THE WORK OF ROY A. WEAGANT
with special reference to the static eliminator.
Dictated to G. H. Clark  April, 1943
by Claire L. Farrand

An account from an interview of two radio and wireless pioneers of a memorable day at work in the Belmar Station, now called Camp Evans
To view Dr. Beverage's story of an incident at Belmar station with related 1914 photos click here.   They nearly killed a guy!
Complete interview:  Harold H. Beverage and H.O. Peterson, Electrical Engineers, an oral history conducted in 1968 and 1973 by Norval Dwyer, IEEE History Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.  Link used with permission.

Mr. Howard Vollum, 1980 interview by the Oregon Historical Society.  Mr. Vollum worked at Camp Evans on radar development and helped to found the electronics firm Tektronix in 1946 after leaving Camp Evans.  A portion of his interview is presented her with permission of the Oregon Historical Society.

FOSTER MERRILL DENNIS 1897-1979 AN AMERICAN YANKEE, Interviewer: Henry J. Nahal.  Dennis Foster worked at Camp Evans He developed the Flyback Transformer which made electronic color TV pratical.  He was also part of a Camp Evans team that worked with Werner Von Braun and other captured German scientists.  The Camp Evans team was refining 'self-tracking' radar in December of 1947.

Camp Evans Oral History Series
Commissioned by: Mr. Michael Ruane, Camp Evans Base Transistion Coordinator, 1993-1998
Reviewed and summarized by Mr. Irv Bauman.

Tape 1: Mr. Sam Stein and unidentified 
Tape 2: Mr. Samuel Stein 
Tape 3: Mr. Frank Vosk and Mr. William Speakman 
Tape 3B: Mr. Bernard V. Ricciardi 
Tape 3C: Mr. Phil Petersen 
Tape 4A: Mr. John Schoening 
Tape 4B: Mr. David L. Pfaff & Mr. John M. Woodworth 
Tape 5: Mr. Louis Kaplan 
Tape 6A: Mr. Phil Petersen and Mr. Bernie Ricciardi 
Tape 6B: Mr. Louis Leo Kaplan 
Tape 7A: Mr. Albert Benoir
Tape 7B: Mr. Harold W. Fulton
Tape 8A: Mr. Ray  McKiran
Tape 8B: unidentified
Tape 9: Dr. Stanley Kronenberg and Dr. George Brucker
Tape 10: Mr. Felix Lavica
Tape 11: Mr. Theodore C.Viars
Tape 12: DRS. STANLEY KRONENBERG & GEORGE BRUCKER
Tape 13: DR. STANLEY KRONENBERG
Tape 14: Mr. Samual Stine
Tape 15: Mr. Irving Bauman
Tape 16: Mr. Edward Groeber
Tape 17: Mr. Irving Bauman
Tape 18: Mr. Neil Wilson
Tape 19: On file Fort Monmouth Video Service
Tape 20: On file Fort Monmouth Video Service
Tape 21: On file Fort Monmouth Video Service
Tape 22: On file Fort Monmouth Video Service
Tape 23: Mr. Samual Stine
Tape 24: DR. STANLEY KRONENBERG

Camp Evans Oral History Series by Infoage Volunteers

Mr. Donald J. LeVine, P.E. - SCR-584 - AN/TRC-6 (email - complete text)
 

(Not summarized yet)
Mr. Merril Stoffer - Aircraft Warning Company - Pearl Harbor (audio)
Mr. Carl Accardo - Radition research at Camp Evans
Mr. Louis Smullin - MIT Radiation Laboratory - worked with Camp Evans engineers
Mr. Benard Martin - SCR-268 - Landed on D-Day - Temporarily and falsely suspended by McCarthy in 1950s (Audio)
Mr. Neil Wilson - Worked in Cold War Atomic test Listening post at Camp Evans (Audio)
Mr. Pete Kenedy - SCR-268 development and early space and satellite research
Mr. John Marchetti - Developer of first mortar counter-fire radar -Landed with radar on D-Day -  decorated by Britain and France
Mr. Stanley Mader - Camp Evans administration (Audio)
Mr. Donald Swingle - Weather radar laboratory (Audio)
Mr Jack Slattery - Original SCR-268 radar development team
Mr. Gilbert Cantor - SCR-268 - Project Diana - Interviewed by McCarthy, not suspended - Project Teapot
Mr. John C. Hansen - SCR-268 - Parts supply - Europe occupation - (text w photos)
Mr. E. King Stodola - SCR- 270 - Project Diana -

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