Interview with James Monroe Green, III, April 7, 2011
Project: Student Projects: LIS 642: Library and Information Science Students Oral History Project
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In this interview, James Monroe Green discusses the time he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps through his recovery at Naval Station Great Lakes from a grenade explosion in Vietnam. He describes what is was like as a nineteen year old recruit training for war, leaving the United States, attaching to a deployed unit, and living in the jungles of Vietnam for approximately nine months. Green describes the Battle of Hill 110 and the day he was wounded and evacuated out of Vietnam.Interview Accession
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Basic training (Military education) Grenades United States. Marine Corps Vietnam Vietnam War, 1961-1975Interview Rights
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III, James Monroe Green,, interview by James Monroe Green, IV. April 07, 2011, Student Projects: LIS 642: Library and Information Science Students Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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