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Archive: November 2016 (2 Posts)

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Vietnam War: Air Power

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

The following is a guest post by Andrew Huber, Liaison Specialist for the Veterans History Project (VHP). Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign conducted by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, ended in November 1968. Beginning in 1965, the operation involved over 300,000 sorties conducted by the U.S. …

Posted in: African Americans, Narratives, Oral History, Photographs, Storytelling, Veterans History Project, Vietnam War

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Memoriam for a Code Talker: Joe Hosteen Kellwood

Posted by: Lisa Taylor

The following is a guest post by Owen Rogers, Liaison Specialist for the Veterans History Project (VHP). In second grade, I asked my teacher why American soldiers were fighting – and dying –in Somalia. Images of GIs slain in Bakaara Market clashed with the invincible G.I. Joes I carried in my knapsack, and in my …

Posted in: Narratives, Native American History, Oral History, Storytelling, Veterans History Project, World War II