Robert J. Theriot oral history interview, 1974.

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Robert J. Theriot oral history interview, 1974.

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Theriot discusses his education and decision to join the Navy, Navy life and training, operations and duties aboard ship in California and Vietnam, the base at Cam Ranh Bay, his impressions of Vietnamese people, drug use, and prostitution.

1 sound cassette (1.5 hours);Index (3 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8110792

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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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...

Talley, Robert H.

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Theriot, Robert J.,

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Robert J. Theriot of New Iberia, La., attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1968 before joining the Navy. He first spent about six months on a ship along the California coast, then six months in the Gulf of Tonkin on destroyer escort with the primary duty of protecting an aircraft carrier. He later volunteered for service on the ground in Vietnam because of his aptitude for foreign languages. From the description of Robert J. Theriot oral history interview, 1974. (Loui...