Interview with John C. Blake, November 20, 1987
Project: American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project
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Childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio; educational background; enlisting after graduating from the University of Kentucky; Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia; Vietnam war compared to World War Two and Korea; arrival in Vietnam in 1972 after training as armored platoon leader; 194th Armored Brigade; studying the Vietnamese language in California; Long Binh; classified documents; Saigon; Vietnamization of the war; American pullout; experience working with ARVN troops; living conditions; Black Market activities and political corruption; no-fire zones; My Lai massacre; lessons of the war.Interview Accession
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Blake, John C. Interview by Tracy A. Smith. 20 Nov. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Blake, J.C. (1987, November 20). Interview by T. A. Smith. American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Blake, John C., interview by Tracy A. Smith. November 20, 1987, American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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