- Collection:
- Veterans History Project: Oral History Interviews
- Title:
- Oral history interview of Franklin E. (Ed) Payne
- Creator:
- Woods, Ed
Payne, Ed (Franklin E.), 1943- - Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Date of Original:
- 2017-12-29
- Subject:
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Medical care
Vietnam War (Television program)
Drug abuse
Bronze Star Medal (U.S.)
United States. Reserve Officers Training Corps
United States. Army. Americal Division - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Smyrna, 33.88399, -84.51438
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Fort Gordon, 33.42097, -82.16206
Vietnam, Cam Ranh Bay, 11.893334, 109.170167
Vietnam, Chu Lai, 15.4422772, 108.587982 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this interview, Ed Payne recalls his service as an Army physician during the Vietnam War. He recalls his growing up years and choosing the ROTC program in college for the extra income and the chance have a choice of when to serve in the military. He remembers how difficult it was to leave his 11 month-old twins for his first duty station as an intern in Hawaii. He describes his arrival in Vietnam and the living conditions in his first unit, including the furniture soldiers would build from the lumber used in ammunition shipping crates. He remembers several of the patients he treated, including a soldier struck in the head by a helicopter blade and another who suffered third degree burns over 70% of his body in an explosion. He describes MEDCAP missions and dining with local Vietnamese leaders. He recalls in detail his last assignment in Vietnam, serving in a drug treatment center. He describes the treatments they used there to alleviate withdrawal symptoms and comments on how dangerous the heroin widely available in Vietnam was compared to that available in the United States because of the difference in purity. He recalls his return to the United States and his post military career and family.
short timer calendar; MEDCAP; Huey; heroin; overdose; palliative; Tripler Army Medical Center (Hawaii); Senior Medical Program; 1st/52nd; Drug Treatment Center; 6th Convalescent Center; MASH (Television series); aid station; Firebase Stinson; Fort Gordon Army Hospital; "nickel and dime caps"; Augusta Medical School; Family Medical Program
Ed Payne served as an Army physician during the Vietnam War. - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VHPohr/id/842
- 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:
- 45:55
- 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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