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Veterans History Project Service Summary:

  • War or Conflict: Cold War
  • Branch of Service: Army
  • Unit of Service: 592nd Signal Company; 42nd Engineer Company; Berlin Brigade
  • Location of Service: West Berlin, Germany
  • Highest Rank: Private First Class

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“I’m 73 years old, and every day I’m proud of the fact that I spent my time doing what I could for my country.” (Video interview, 38:03)

A Seminole Indian, Private First Class Tecumseh Nathaniel Underwood faced limited employment prospects in his home state of Oklahoma. A strong sense of patriotism drove him to follow in his father and grandfather’s footsteps and enlist in the Army. Stationed in West Berlin from 1962 to 1965, he comments in his oral history interview, “I was in the middle of the destruction of a city.”

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About this Item

Title

  • Tecumseh Nathaniel Underwood Collection

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Underwood, Tecumseh Nathaniel
  • Nault, Jeanine

State of Birth

  • OK

Home State

  • OK

Headings

  • -  Underwood, Tecumseh Nathaniel
  • -  Cold War -- Personal Narratives
  • -  United States. Army.

Notes

  • -  The veteran's biographical data form lists race/ethnicity as "Seminole and Chickasaw."

Repository

  • Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Gender

  • Male

Race

  • American Indian and Alaskan Native

Status

  • Veteran

Service History

  • Cold War

    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Unit of Service: 592nd Signal Company; 42nd Engineer Company; Berlin Brigade
    • Location of Service: West Berlin, Germany
    • Highest Rank: Private First Class
    • Dates of Service: 1963-1965
    • Entrance into Service: Enlisted
    • Military Status: Veteran

Materials

  • Video: Digital File [ item] -- Oral history interview (collected 07/22/2017)
  • Video: DVD [1 item] -- Reference copy (collected 07/22/2017)

Collection Number

  • AFC/2001/001/107900

Cite as

  • Tecumseh Nathaniel Underwood Collection (AFC/2001/001/107900), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Online Format

  • image
  • video

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

Using VHP Material in Publication or Exhibition

The Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress collects, preserves and makes accessible the firsthand recollections of U.S. military veterans who served from World War I through more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand what they saw, did and felt during their service. The Veterans History Project Collection includes oral histories along with documentary materials such as original letters, diaries, photographs, and memoirs.

Veterans and interviewers contribute these materials to the Library for scholarly and educational purposes, retaining any copyright they may hold. Therefore, permission must be obtained before using the interview or other materials in exhibition or publication. Researchers or others who would like to make further use of these materials should contact the Veterans History Project for assistance.

As a publicly supported institution, the Library generally does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot give or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material in its collections. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item from the Library’s collections and for securing any necessary permissions rests with persons desiring to use the item.

Please contact us with questions.

Obtaining Copies of VHP Materials

In order for VHP materials to be duplicated, we must receive written permission from the interviewee for you to obtain a copy of the recording unless the proposed use is limited to personal use, research, or other uses permissible by copyright law. If the interviewee is deceased, their next-of-kin may grant written permission.

Please contact VHP for assistance if you need to contact a veteran for permission to use their materials in exhibition or publication, or if you have received permission from the veteran and need access to high-resolution copies of VHP collection materials.

Citing VHP Materials

Please use the following formats when citing Veterans History Project materials (substituting the appropriate name and collection ID number).

Materials as a whole:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Manuscript material:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Memoirs (MS02), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Transcript (MS04), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Correspondence (MS01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Recording:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Audio recording (SR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Video recording (MV01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Photograph:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Photographs (PH01), photographer unknown, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Photographs (PH03-PH14), Ralph Williams photographer, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Computer file:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Computer file (CF01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Artifact:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Artifact (AR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, Tecumseh Nathaniel Underwood, and Jeanine Nault. Tecumseh Nathaniel Underwood Collection. 1963. Personal Narrative. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.107900/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Underwood, T. N. & Nault, J. (1963) Tecumseh Nathaniel Underwood Collection. [Personal Narrative] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.107900/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, Tecumseh Nathaniel Underwood, and Jeanine Nault. Tecumseh Nathaniel Underwood Collection. 1963. Personal Narrative. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.107900/>.