Interview with Anthony W. Hammett, November 20, 1987
Project: American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Childhood in Westminster, Maryland; enlistment into the Army in 1963; basic training at Fort Hood; duty in Germany; re-enlistment and arrival in Vietnam in 1965; duty in a heavy equipment maintenance company; impressions of Vietnamese people; second tour of duty beginning in 1969 with 4th Infantry Regiment at Pleiku; changes in the Army; no-fire zones; experiences in the field; ideas about Communism; failure of American strategy; third tour of duty in the Mekong Delta with the 34th Engineers at Chou Duc; ability of commanders; enemy tactics; homecoming and treatment by family; his own political views regarding equal rights and democracy; drug and alcohol abuse in Vietnam by American soldiers; My Lai massacre.Interview Accession
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Hammett, Anthony W. Interview by Tracy A. Smith. 20 Nov. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Hammett, A.W. (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.
Hammett, Anthony W., 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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