Oral history interview with Ben S. Custer, 1965.

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Family background, childhood; Naval Academy; early cruises; Pensacola, flight training; flying boat squadron, Alaska; teaching at Annapolis; Caribbean Sea Frontier, Admiral John Hoover; executive officer, CROATAN; Admiral John Vest; command of the NORTON SOUND; World War II; Atlantic and Pacific theaters; atomic bomb; Flight Safety Board, Pay Board; Naval Attache ́to Canada; Northwest cruise to Hudson's Bay; Floyd Bennett Field; Strauss Commission; Princeton, Impressions of contemporaries in the Navy and of government officials; discussion of strategy and battle plans, World Wars I and II.

Subjects

• Aeronautics, Military.
• Air pilots--Interviews.
• Canada--Description and travel.
• Custer, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Scott), 1905-2002--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States. Navy.
• United States Naval Academy.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• World War, 1914-1918.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.