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Veterans History Project Service Summary:

  • War or Conflict: Korean War, 1950-1953
  • Branch of Service: Army
  • Unit of Service: 11th Evacuation Hospital, Medical Corps
  • Location of Service: Fort Meade, Maryland; Camp Pickett, Virginia; Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Lewis, Washington; Korea
  • Highest Rank: Private First Class

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"The historians really did not know what happened." (Audio interview)

“If you ever watch MASH on television, that’s the way it is,” says Earl Hufford, who was there, in Korea, not as a sardonic doctor like Hawkeye Pierce but working a variety of support jobs, including stints as a chaplain’s assistant. Hufford was a college student in Ohio with a Methodist preacher’s license when he was drafted. His aptitude for things medical landed him in a series of courses—he even learned how to do autopsies. Although his unit treated wounded North Korean soldiers and built a hospital for them, the enemy didn’t return any favors. They bombed Hufford’s facility, thinking it was a bacteriological weapons site, although it was plainly marked with a red cross.

Earl R. Hufford Collection
Interview / Recording

Transcript: XML

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About this Item

Title

  • Earl R. Hufford Collection

Names

  • Diane Martens
  • National Court Reporters Association (NCRA)
  • Hufford, Earl R.
  • University of Toledo
  • Fisher, Andrew

State of Birth

  • OH

Home State

  • OH

Headings

  • -  Hufford, Earl R.
  • -  Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Personal Narratives
  • -  United States. Army.

Repository

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

Gender

  • Male

Status

  • Veteran

Service History

  • Korean War, 1950-1953

    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Unit of Service: 11th Evacuation Hospital, Medical Corps
    • Location of Service: Fort Meade, Maryland; Camp Pickett, Virginia; Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Lewis, Washington; Korea
    • Highest Rank: Private First Class
    • Dates of Service: 1951-1953
    • Entrance into Service: Drafted
    • Military Status: Veteran

Materials

  • Photograph: Photocopy of photographic print [8 items] -- (collected unknown)
  • Audio: Audio Cassette [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 11/26/2003)
  • Audio: CD [1 item] -- Reference copy (collected 3/22/2006)
  • Computer File: CD [1 item] -- Electronic file of manuscript (collected 9/12/2006)
  • Manuscript: Transcript [1 item] -- Transcription of audio recording (collected 9/12/2006)

Collection Number

  • AFC/2001/001/10176

Cite as

  • Earl R. Hufford Collection (AFC/2001/001/10176), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Online Format

  • audio
  • image
  • online text

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.

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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:

Diane Martens, National Court Reporters Association, Earl R Hufford, University Of Toledo, and Andrew Fisher. Earl R. Hufford Collection. 1951. Personal Narrative. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.10176/.

APA citation style:

Diane Martens, National Court Reporters Association, Hufford, E. R., University Of Toledo & Fisher, A. (1951) Earl R. Hufford Collection. [Personal Narrative] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.10176/.

MLA citation style:

Diane Martens, et al. Earl R. Hufford Collection. 1951. Personal Narrative. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.10176/>.