Interview with Donald E. Thompson, August 15, 1990

Project: American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Arrival in Vietnam in April 1971 as an administrative clerk; reassignment to the 377th Combat Unit at Tan Son Nhut Air Base; race riot that occurred at the air base-- and his subsequent promotion; arranging USO shows; differences between the North and South Vietnamese; his distrust of all Vietnamese; American strategy; duties at the Equal Opportunity Office; drug abuse by American troops; people who went AWOL; establishing a Vietnam Veterans group in Lexington, Kentucky; psychological trauma as a result of his experiences; media images of the war.

Interview Accession

1990oh197_vvk039

Interviewee Name

Donald E. Thompson

Interviewer Name

Sandra Gray

Interview Date

1990-08-15

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Thompson, Donald E. Interview by Sandra Gray. 15 Aug. 1990. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Thompson, D.E. (1990, August 15). Interview by S. Gray. American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Thompson, Donald E., interview by Sandra Gray. August 15, 1990, American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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