Interview with Jodie Haydon, November 11, 1988
Project: American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Bardstown-- Kentucky; enlistment in the National Guard in 1967; basic training at Fort Hood; reaction to his unit's activation in 1969; lawsuit filed by Guardsmen against the government over being sent to Vietnam; base camps and field conditions in Vietnam; Camp Eagle at Phu Bai; Hill 88; Fire Base Tomahawk; good times in Vietnam; camraderie in the unit; morale of the American soldiers; physical description of Fire Base Tomahawk; attack on Fire Base Tomahawk and carrying wounded to helicopters; worrying about battle's effect on Bardstown; "body count"; "animalism" of the North Vietnamese; homecoming; American strategy; lessons of the war.Interview Accession
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Haydon, Jodie Interview by Andrew McIntire. 11 Nov. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Haydon, J. (1988, November 11). Interview by A. McIntire. American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Haydon, Jodie, interview by Andrew McIntire. November 11, 1988, American Veterans: Vietnam War Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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