Link:http://lib.lsu.edu/oralhistory/abstr..._T1449.abs.pdf
T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection (Trung Tâm thu thập lịch sử theo lời kể)
ABSTRACT ( Tóm tắt )
INTERVIEWEE NAME: (Người được phỏng vấn ) Calvin WilliamsCOLLECTION: (Bộ sưu tập số ) 4700.0993
IDENTIFICATION: ( Loại dạng ) Vietnam veteran ( Cựu chiến binh VN )
INTERVIEWER: ( Người phỏng vấn ) Bailey Vinson
SERIES: ( Loạt bài ) Americans in Vietnam ( Những người Mỹ tại VN )
INTERVIEW DATES: ( Ngày phỏng vấn ) 2/77FOCUS DATES: (Thời gian xảy ra) Nov 1, 1966-April 14, 1973
ABSTRACT:
Tape 1449, Side A ( Băng ghi âm số 1449. Mặt A )
Born in DeRidder, LA; occupations of parents; impoverished childhood; lessons learned inchildhood; education; decision to join Marines; induction, training; arrival in Vietnam in December; getting ambushed, losing men; explains "Recon"; explains "force Recon"; description of a day in Vietnam; altercation wherein Williams shot an officer; punishment for shooting officer; found enemy's underground hospital; weapons, M-16 with M-79 grenade launcher; starlight scopes; contact with civilians; CUPP operation; importance of water buffalo in Vietnam; battle on the 4 th of July; opinions on ARVNs and Vietnamese Marines; contact with VC; VC tactics; VC trying to capture Danang air strip; VC propaganda campaign; VC exploitation of black/white racial friction; Hanoi Hannah on radio at night; Marines drinking, leaking information into enemy hands; almost starved at Khe Sanh; reduced to eating rats and lizards; would rather fight NVA than VC; pungy pits, grenade s; booby traps made from
garbage; NVA fought more traditionally; VC snipers chained to trees; dedication of enemy; contact with montagnards; Hmong people; montagnards and the NVA; montagnards were cannibalistic; problems with society; V ietnamese civilians needed leadership; learning Vietnamese; prevalence of prostitution; prevalence of drugs; prices of prostitutes; prostitution in the field; children pimping their sisters and mothers; availability of drugs; going AWOL; joining the enemy; gold in Hue City.
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