Interview with Charles O. Campbell, November 21, 1987
Project: American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Childhood in Trimble County-- Kentucky; ROTC training at Eastern Kentucky University; arrival in Vietnam in 1966 as platoon leader with the First Cavalry Division; "search and destroy" missions; air assault strategy; Ia Drang Valley; camraderie in his platoon; first homecoming; media disinformation; changes in soldiers' attitude during second tour of duty in Vietnam; alcohol and drug abuse; disillusionment with American strategy; dedication of the North Vietnamese; lessons of the war; pyschological trauma caused by the war; fear of death in Vietnam; readjustment to civilian life.Interview Accession
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Campbell, Charles O. Interview by Tracy A. Smith. 21 Nov. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Campbell, C.O. (1987, November 21). Interview by T. A. Smith. American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Campbell, Charles O., interview by Tracy A. Smith. November 21, 1987, American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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