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Wuest, Ken
Ken Wuest, a former American soldier deployed to Vietnam, discusses his time there and the interesting circumstances of how he came to meet his daughter, Hoang Diem, whom he fathered while he was in Vietnam.
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Rosenblatt, Lionel
Lionel Rosenblatt discusses his experiences as a former foreign service officer with the CORDS program in Vietnam, whose goal was to gain support from the rural population for the government of South Vietnam. He organized a way to evacuate by air…
Sorley, Lewis
Lewis Sorley is an American intelligence analyst, lecturer and military historian who was deployed to Vietnam as an Army major in 1966. Based on his experiences and research, he wrote the book "A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final…
Moorefield, Kenneth P.
Kenneth Moorefield, Deputy Inspector General for the Department of Defense, discusses his deployment to Vietnam as an adviser in the lower Mekong Delta providing training and weapons to the South Vietnamese from 1967 until he was wounded in April of…
Parker, James E.
James E. Parker, ex-CIA agent and author of 'Last Man Out: A Personal Account of the Vietnam War' (2008) and 'The Vietnam War: Its Ownself' (2015) discusses his perspectives on the Vietnam War based on his personal experience.
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Armitage, Richard L.
Richard L. Armitage is a former American naval officer and Vietnamese language speaker who served three combat tours of duty during the Vietnam War. In this interview, he discusses one of his missions, which was to deny the enemy the use of important…
Huynh, Mylene T.
Mylene Huynh describes her childhood growing up in the beach city of Nha Trang during wartime. Her father was a physician that worked for the South Vietnamese. Her mother was a pharmacist. Her father later was place in a reeducation camp for one…
Yablonka, Marc Phillip
Marc Yablonka holds a Master's of Professional Writing degree earned from the University of Southern California and has worked as a military journalist and as an adjunct professor of English. He has written the book Distant War: Recollections of…
Whitenbach-Santos, Richard
Dr. Richard Whitenbach Santos was a captain in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and served as Special Assistant to the commander of Naval Forces during Operation New Life in Guam, an unincorporated and organized territory of the United…
Baza, Raymond T.
Raymond T. Baza recounts his experiences processing the first group of 7,000 refugees from Vietnam, about five or six hundred "Operation Baby Lift" infants, to a camp in Guam, an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States which…