Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Vietnam veterans project : oral history, 1973-1978.Scope and ContentsA sympathetic civilian interviewer here debriefs black and white enlisted men and a few officers on every facet of life during the war in Vietnam. Interviewees range from infantry "grunts" to veterans involved in intelligence, interrogation, helicopter duty, and "the rear." Their tours of duty came in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They discuss search-and-kill missions, bombing raids and other combat operations, life in camp, hospital, and stockade, tactical and morale problems, impressions of the South Vietnamese and of the Vietcong. They speculate, months before the war ended, on how it would end and what it was about. The project provides a view of the war, by Americans who fought it, in barracks language.
Participants and pagination of transcript: Lonnie Alexander, 109; Frank Benson, 167; Richard Blanchfield, 77; Timothy R. Bluitt, 134; Ernst J. Boitano, 72; Steven Borrowman, 115; Danny Branham, 78; Peter Cameron, 64; Scott Camil, 95; Russell L. Campbell, 118; David Cooper, 60; Joel E. Davis, 133; Richard Ezzard, 230; Stan Goff, 686; Steve Hassna, 275; Jim Heiden, 66; Wayne Hemple, 87; Lee Heyman, 103; Bob Hood, 58; Bruce Humphrey, 70; John Imsdahl, 127; Thomas C. Johns, 91; Maxwell Jouanicot, 139; Barry Kelly, 69; Al Lemke, 71; James Lieuallen, 66; Ossie L. McCray, Jr., 67; Gerald Merity, 39; Steve Neichin, 81; Mike Nicastro, 82; Jim Peachin, 111; Jay Peterson, 83; Louis A. Pofi, 136; Randall Risener, 74; Bob Sanders, 244; Charlie Smith, 64; Charles Taliaferro, 121; Joseph Thomas, 36; Arthur Turner, 63; Jerry O. West, 151; Betty Wilkinson, 118.
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