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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Lynn Kenneth Packer interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330364]
Identifier: MSS SC 3153
Scope and Contents This interview was conducted by Christopher A. Stockwell on 29 Oct. 1985 as part of the Ray Hillam project. Packer was raised in Utah, served on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany, and studied broadcast journalism at Utah State University graduating in 1968. He subsequentially worked for KSL television and was drafted into the United States Army. Packer first worked as a German translator and was later assigned to Vietnam as a broadcast journalist for...
Dates: 1985 October 29
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Edmund Parkinson interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330356]
Identifier: MSS SC 3154
Scope and Contents Transcript of an interview conducted by Denny Roy for the Ray Hillam project probably in 1985. Parkinson served in the United States Army in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He said that the war was the best and worst experience of his life because he had to learn reliance and trust at that time. He said that his group consisted of 800 men from Idaho, mostly farm boys, and he served as an engineer. He was involved in road, airfield and base construction and in establishing water systems....
Dates: 1985
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Brad Patterson interview with Hyde Taylor

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3030
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview conducted by Brad Patterson on 25 Feb. 1985 for Hillam's War Project at Brigham Young University. Taylor talks about being deployed to Vietnam in 1966 and in 1970. He tells about his experiences in combat and discusses his membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while he was at war.

Dates: 1985 February 25
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Martin F. Peterson interview with Richard Baldwin

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3058
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview conducted by Martin F. Peterson on 18 March 1985 for Hillam's War Project. Also included is the reel-to-reel audiotape from which the item was transcribed. Baldwin talks about his combat missions in Korea and Vietnam. He was on 103 combat missions in the Korean War before he was given leave in Japan. Baldwin talks about his career and about how his faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints helped him during his military service.

Dates: 1985 March 18
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Allen Powers interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330414]
Identifier: MSS SC 3155
Scope and Contents Transcript of an interview conducted by Jim Keezell on 5 July 1985 for the Ray Hillam project. Powers was in the United States Marine Corps stationed at Sugie, Japan, with the First Marine Air Wing in 1964 when he learned he was being deployed to Vietnam. He had already been in the Marine Corps for six years and had received much training. He landed in Danang, Vietnam, and was a plane commander in the UH23 Delta helicopter. He told about his attack missions and about killing others and...
Dates: 1985 July 5
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Oral history interview with Clyde Ricks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 9435
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1990 March 17
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Norman Wade Sammis interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330380]
Identifier: MSS SC 3159
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...
Dates: 1985 August 25
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Lawrence H. Suid interviews

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1966
Scope and Contents

Typewritten transcripts of interviews taken from the included cassette tapes. Also included are research notes. The interviews are with advisors to films about the Vietnamese Conflict. Most of these men were involved in the war and also tell about their experiences. These materials were used as research for Suid's PhD dissertation, "The Film Industry and the Vietnam War." A photocopy of this work is with the collection.

Dates: 1974-1980
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Dixie Van Orman interview of Mike Johnson

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3060
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview conducted by Dixie Van Orman on April 8, 1985 in the Junior High School of American Fork, Utah, for Dr. Hillam's War Project. Also included is the reel-to-reel audiotape from which the interview was transcribed. Johnson talks about his experiences as a United States Marine in the Vietnam War. He tells mainly about how he dealt with the situation mentally.

Dates: 1985
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Ray C. Hillam war experiences and papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232483856]
Identifier: MSS 2767
Scope and Contents Typed autobiography "War Experiences" in which Hillam discusses his military exieriences and his work as a propoganda expert during both the Korean War and the Vietnamese War. Also included are Weekly Activity Reports for the Advisory Detachment, Political Warfare College, Advisory Team # 34 for the years 1967 and 1968. Also with the collection are propaganda leaflets and other documents in Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese. A copy of Hillam's book, "A Time to Kill: Reflections on War" is...
Dates: approximately 1950-2000
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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