Oral History Interview with Hugh Shoults, October 14, 2011

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Hugh Shoults. Shoults joined the Army Air Forces in March 1944 and received basic training in Amarillo. Upon completion of radar maintenance school, he trained radar navigators and bombardiers for the invasion of Japan. After the war ended, he worked on the flight line, maintaining radios, until his discharge in June 1946. He was called to active duty during the Korean War as a maintenance officer at Fairchild. In 1951 he began pilot training, and from 1954 to 1957 he flew F-84s in Japan. He was then assigned to a parachute test facility in El Centro. Shoults served in Vietnam as an Air Force liaison officer to the 9th Infantry Division. He returned home in December 1967 and became a missile project supervisor at Vandenberg. He went on to earn a master’s degree in aerospace operations management and retired from the Air Force in June 1972