- Collection:
- Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Oral history interview of Greg Studdard
- Creator:
- Luton, Frank
Studdard, Greg, 1946- - Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Date of Original:
- 2019-09-26
- Subject:
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
Drug use
Race relations
Southern Airways, Inc.
Emory University
Boy Scouts of America
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 20th - People:
- McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009
Brown, Merle Dewayne, 1938-1971
Tuttle, Elbert Parr, 1897-1996
King, Cary - Location:
- Germany, Heidelberg, 49.398752, 8.672434
United States, Georgia, Chattahoochee County, Fort Benning, 32.35237, -84.96882
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
Vietnam, Chu Lai, 15.4422772, 108.587982 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this interview, Greg Studdard discusses his experiences in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader in the United States Army. He shares his family's tradition of military service and describes his childhood between Atlanta and Heidelberg, Germany, where his step-father was stationed. He talks about his undergraduate experience at Emory University and volunteering for Army OCS in 1969. He describes his training experiences and his early duty assignments before deploying to Vietnam, where he served as an infantry platoon leader. He details daily life and patrols and shares a few harrowing combat stories from near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. He traces his career following his departure from Vietnam for law school: trial litigation, corporate law, and estate law. He volunteers his time for veterans causes, he explains, such as a free legal clinic and suicide prevention work. He talks about his wife and children, and then closes the interview by reflecting on his first impressions of Vietnam and stories of loss from combat.
"Navy ride"; draft; sniper; personnel movement detectors; I Corps; booby trap; Claymore mine; medevac; Dustoff; VA hospital; suicide; helicopter crash; chaplain; body bags; free legal clinic; lawyer; Matt McClendon
Greg Studdard was an infantry platoon leader in the United States Army in the Vietnam War. - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VHPohr/id/863
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 52:47
- Original Collection:
- Veterans History Project oral history recordings
Veterans History Project collection, MSS 1010, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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