Number of interviews: 60
Time period covered: 1963 - 1975
Dates of interviews: 1974-1977
Principal interviewers: John Davis, Mike Humphreys, Dudley
Meier, Paul Moore, Robert Talley, Dale Jenkins and Bailey Vinson
Finding Aids: Abstracts, some indexes, many transcripts, and
biographical
questionnaires
Description: LSU Professor Beatrice Spade and student
conducted these interviews with American servicemen and a few
Vietnamese people now living in America. The interviewees discuss
their experiences in Vietnam and their attitudes toward American
involvement in Southeast Asia. In addition, the soldiers,
representing a variety of ranks and all branches of the military,
discuss their military training and contact with the Vietnamese
people and their culture, and the civilians relate their
background and the experience of immigrating to the United
States.