Paul Keefe is a retired aeronautical/ electrical engineer who values his Cold War service in the U.S. Navy.
Recorded
January 16, 2017
Archived
January 16, 2017
43:57 minutes
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Id:
APP294077
Description
Paul Keefe's experience in the US Navy including service in the Mediterranean on the USS Lake Champlain helped him get his degree in aeronautical engineering & led to a career in electrical engineering at companies including D.E.C.Participants
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Paul Keefe
Interview By
Keywords
- "Bum boats"--taxis to shore from carrier
- 1956 at sea on USS Lake Champlain
- Active duty
- Aeronautical engineering
- Astronaut and space capsule recovery by USS Lake Champlain
- Born in 1934 in West Roxbury MA
- Core memory group Natick MA
- Electronic modules
- G.I.Bill educational benefits
- Gold watch from Digital Equipment Corporation
- Grace Keefe--Paul's wife
- Green shirt--on carrier uniform for electronics (V-6 division)
- Harold Edgerton MIT professor who co-founded E G & G in 1930s
- Instructor for Digital Equipment Corporation
- Isolating problems in complex electronics
- Jim McDonald--friend who served earlier on USS Lake Champlain
- Ken Olsen co-founder of D.E.C.
- Launch and recovery of planes
- NC-5 Mobile electronic generator
- Saluting everything
- Underground nuclear testing
- V-6 division--aeronautical electronics division
Places
- American Samoa
- Boston MA
- Cape Cod
- Falmouth MA
- France
- germany
- Gibralter
- Hingham MA
- Italy
- Las Vegas
- Linden Ponds Hingham MA
- Logan Airport electronics training center
- MA
- Marseilles FR
- Maynard MA
- Mayport--Jacksonville FL
- Mediterranean Sea
- Naval Air Station Jacksonville
- Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove
- Naval Training Center Bainbridge MD
- Spain
- Woods Hole MA