Interview with Fred D. Smith, February 4, 2003
Project: Oldham County Historical Society: Oldham County Veterans Oral History Project
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Fred D. Smith is a resident of Elizabethtown, Ky. and he served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1983. Smith enlisted in the Army at the age of twenty in Alabama and was sent to Fort Jackson in South Carolina for his basic training and AIT. Smith was deployed several times, including in France, Germany, and South Korea, before being sent to Vietnam in 1968. He returned to Fort Knox in early 1969, working there until his retirement from the Army in 1983.Interview Accession
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Smith, Fred D. Interview by Joseph Ward. 04 Feb. 2003. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Smith, F.D. (2003, February 04). Interview by J.. Ward. Oldham County Historical Society: Oldham County Veterans Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Smith, Fred D., interview by Joseph Ward. February 04, 2003, Oldham County Historical Society: Oldham County Veterans Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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