Oral history interview with Barry Kelly, 1976.

Biographical Note

Army veteran.

Scope and Contents

Entrance into service, 1967 from Reserve Officers Training Corps; active duty: from March 1968, training for Phoenix Program, role of United States advisors in Vietnam, battle conditions; relations between Vietnamese soldiers and United States soldiers; experiences of black soldiers and officers in Vietnam; impressions of war.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Kelly, Barry--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Smith, Clark, 1934- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Armed Forces--African Americans.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975.