Vietnam veterans served their country abroad — and most faced a very difficult road when they returned.
‘Odyssey Of Echo Company’ Helps 101st Airborne Veterans Untangle Vietnam Experience
Listen A new book pieces together the Vietnam experience of a 101st Airborne paratrooper and his reconnaissance unit. The book’s author Doug Stanton says even the soldiers of Echo Company didn’t understand precisely what they did in combat.
101st Airborne Remembers Vietnam, Where Air Assault Was Born
Listen The 101st Airborne is hosting Vietnam Veterans at Fort Campbell this week as part of the division’s 75th anniversary. While the unit was born in World War II, Vietnam is where the division earned its modern role in the Army.
StoryCorps Nashville: Vietnam Veteran Recounts His First Airstrike And A Trigger-Happy Co-Pilot
Listen Darrel Kilburn headed off to Vietnam right after college. He was a helicopter gunship pilot- often tasked with flying over dangerous territory and patrolling for enemy combatants. Now in his 70’s, the retired Army Colonel still remembers one of his first experiences facing enemy gunfire while flying with a new co-pilot. What could have […]
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