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- Collection:
- Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Oral history interview of Jay Allen Cohen
- Creator:
- Bruckner, William Joseph, 1944-
Hilliard, Tony (Anthony Stephen), 1944-
VerHoef, Sue Hardy
Cohen, Jay Allen, 1947- - Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Date of Original:
- 2014-04-21
- Subject:
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
M-16 rifle
Essex (Aircraft carrier)
J. Douglas Blackwood (Destroyer escort : DE-219)
United States. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Location:
- United States, Illinois, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Naval Training Center
United States, North Carolina, Onslow County, Camp LeJeune, 34.62059, -77.38384
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 39.95233, -75.16379
United States, Rhode Island, Quonset Point Naval Air Station
United States, Rhode Island, Washington County, Davisville, 41.6134343, -71.4753363
United States, Virginia, Norfolk City County, Norfolk, 36.81904, -76.27494
Vietnam, NSA Da Nang
Vietnam, Phú Bài, 16.39928, 107.70136
Vietnam, Ðà N?ng, My Khe Beach, 16.048626249999998, 108.24996839141005 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/quicktime
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VHPohr/id/602
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Extent:
- 35:51
- 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:
-
In this interview, Jay Allen Cohen describes his experiences as a hospital corpsman in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. He recalls his childhood and entry into the Navy. He details his training and arrival in Vietnam, and remembers the heat and the smells. He describes his duties working with Marines and Seabees in the post-Tet offensive cleanup. He tells of his homecoming, marriage, post-war career and work with veterans organizations. He relates working with civilians on first-aid runs.||45 caliber; rocket attack; aviation fuel; battalion aid station; Viet Cong; elephant grass; casualties; sick call; Reserve Duty; decommissioning; China Beach (Vietnam);||Jay Cohen was a Navy Corpsman in the Vietnam War.