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Airman Roberts recalls Viet Nam tour and service
Airman First Class James D. Roberts son of Mr and Mrs H M Roberts of Kirbyville recounts his Viet Nam tour with the U S Air Force after training at Hurlburt Field and Maxwell AFB He compares guerrilla warfare to Civil and Korean conflicts and notes 16 000 Americans in Vietnam with many hardships and dangers within a border region of Laos Cambodia and the northward Viet Cong.
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James D. ‘Roberts
H. M. “Blackie” Roberts
Kirbyville
Viet Nam
U.S Air Force
Doug
Montgomery
Ala
Maxwell Afb
Hurlburt Afb
Fort Walton Beach
Florida
First Air Commando Group
Wing
Cambodia
Laos
Republic
America
Thailand
Malaya
Roberts
Air Force
Lackland Afb
Texas
Mississippi
Korea
Amarillo
France
Air University
Alabama
Air Commandos
DistrictClerk
Jasper County
Jack McCreary
Buna Independent School District
A. G. Mott
Herman Brackin
McCreary
Buna
Tom McCullough
Lusk
Wyo
Charles A. Whitmire
Beaman Garsee
San Augustine
Alice Garsee
Nebraska
Floyd Cryer
Baptist Hospital
Beaumont
W. W. Mayfield
Houston
Bertha Powers
Dawn Powers
Patricia Conner
John Lester
Beaumont’s Baptist Hospital
Joe Boughan
James Boughan
Silsbee
Boughan
Bill Berryman
M. M. McColough Jr
Connie
Keven
New Orleans
Lake Charles
Deweyville
Mr. McCollough
M. M. McCollough Sr
Ralph Franklin
Weldon Cunningham
U. S. Army
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
William Cunningham
Cun
Ningham
Frankfurt
Germany
LeRoy Garsee
Texas National Guard
Fort Knox
A. D. Garsee
Garsee
Earl Thomas
Wayside Inn
Bridge City
DuPont
Thomas
Sam Collins
Newton
Herman Johnson
Jim Hardin
Jimmy
Danny
Arkansas
Churches of Christ
Nels Thompson Jr
Hubert Stanley
Twin City