Captain Nathan Reed oral history interview, 1975.

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Captain Nathan Reed oral history interview, 1975.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/73676940

Reed discusses his training as an aircraft mechanic and later as an airplane and helicopter pilot; his training in Officer Candidate School; his work as an attack helicopter pilot, aircraft maintenance officer, and air cavalry reconnaissance platoon leader in Vietnam; the black market; prostitution; Vietnamese assassins who targeted American soldiers; American public opinion about the war; and the attitudes and culture of the Vietnamese.

1 sound cassette (1.5 hours);Index (4 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8110631

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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United States. Army. Air Cavalry Division, 1st.

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Reed, Nathan K.,

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Captain Nathan Reed joined the Army in 1961 and was trained as an aircraft mechanic and later as an airplane and helicopter pilot. He passed Officer Candidate School in 1964 and was sent to Vietnam for the first time in 1966. Reed served as an attack helicopter pilot before being wounded, after which he worked as an aircraft maintenance officer and flew re-supply and other support missions. He commanded an air cavalry reconnaissance platoon on his second tour of duty that ended in 1970. ...

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United States. Army. Officer Candidate School

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...