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application/pdf  davisbobby.pdf (10MB) | Oral History Transcript |
Description
| Title: | Bobby L. Davis Oral History |
| Author(s): | Davis, Bobby L. |
| Contributor(s): | Humphrey, Jennifer |
| Subject(s): | Vietnam War veterans
Oral histories Davis, Bobby L. (b.1949) |
| Abstract: | Davis, resident of Elizabethtown, Illinois, recalls his personal experiences in the army during the Vietnam conflict. He was drafted after graduating from high school and worked in a local fluorspar mine. Davis recalls incidents from his service in Vietnam, including seeing a man blown to pieces by a Vietcong satchel bomb and witnessing a black soldier saving a white soldier trapped in a bombed tower bunker. Photos taken by Davis while he was in Vietnam are included in the memoir. |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Citation Info: | Davis, Bobby L. Oral History. Interview by Jennifer Humphrey. 2009. Archives/Special Collections, Brookens Library, University of Illinois at Springfield. |
| Genre: | Other |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/48755 |
| Publication Status: | unpublished |
| Peer Reviewed: | not peer reviewed |
| Rights Information: | Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, 2009 |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2014-03-31 |
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Oral History Student Projects - UIS
Digital oral history interviews and transcripts produced as student projects