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Contains one audiocassette recording of an oral history interview with Clyde Ricks, dated March 17, 1990. Also contains a biographical data sheet indicating that the interview covers the years 1968 to 1979, when Clyde was serving in the Vietnam War.

Scope and Contents Transcript of an interview conducted by Alan S. Davies on 25 August 1985 for the Ray Hillam project. Sammis was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1937. He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1956 and graduated in 1960. He was commissioned an officer in the Marine Corps. He went to flight training and was designated a helicopter pilot in 1962. He was later sent to Vietnam with an infantry division and became an air liason officer (forward air controller) and directed close air...