Oral History Interview with Peter Luitwieler
Title
Oral History Interview with Peter Luitwieler
Narrator (written)
Peter Luitwieler
Narrator First Name
Peter
Narrator Last Name
Luitwieler
Interviewer
Angela Noppenberger
Abstract
Peter E. Luitwieler. Class of 1964. Son of Clarence Seward Luitwieler, Class of 1924. Oral history 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 describes 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 Quảng Trj Province. He describes his participation in the Phoenix Program and his job doing military intelligence during the Vietnam War.
Date of Interview
February 6, 2016
Subject
Dartmouth Alumni
Dartmouth History
Military Service (Army)
Vietnam Veteran
Language
English
Rauner ID
DOH-491
Rights
Interview Audio Source (MP3)
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Interview Transcript Source (PDF)
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