William Scott Craig's interview for the Veterans History Project at Atlanta History Center

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Catalog number: VIS 201.0617
In this interview, William Scott Craig relates his experiences in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War. He talks of his childhood and how he entered the Corps. He recounts serving at Guantanamo Bay, where many of the civilian employees were Jamaican. He describes liberty in Pearl Harbor, and the typhoon they encountered on their voyage to Okinawa, where the ship nearly capsized. He tells harrowing stories of operations in Vietnam, including stepping on a land mine. He describes helping to load wounded female Viet Cong nurses onto medevac helicopters. He tells of his homecoming and postwar family and career.

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