Oral history interview with Raymond W. Nyls [Session 04, Recording 03]

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Oral history interview with Raymond W. Nyls [Session 04, Recording 03]

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  • 1992-06-20 (Creation)

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Audiocassette; 00:29:46

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Raymond Woodrow Nyls, nee Suesens, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1920. After his mother remarried, he took his step-father's name. He joined the Army Air Corps just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1940, he and Lucile Katherine Tinker were married; they later divorced in 1945. That same year, Nyls and Laila "Peggy" Rose Garver were married. During the Korean War, Nyls served as an engineering officer and also flew missions as a fighter pilot. Some years later, Nyls and Peggy Nyls divorced, and he married Marjorie (her surname before marriage to Nyls is unknown). Nyls ultimately had three children. During the Cold War, he continued to serve in the U.S. Air Force, and for a time served as a UFO investigator. After his retirement, the Nyls family lived in Eugene. He died in 2019.

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Tape 8, Side 1. In the fourth interview session, conducted in Philomath on June 20, 1992, Nyls discusses living in Portland and working for the Forest Service through the National Youth Association. He then talks about working for Boeing in Seattle, Washington, in the years before World War II and about joining the Army Air Corps. He speaks about morale at Boeing after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and describes his feelings about the U.S. government's incarceration of Japanese Americans. He describes his Army Air Corps training at length, including both boot camp and flight training. He also talks about his marriage to Lucile Tinker.

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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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