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and shares his thoughts on what should be done to avoid a similar fate. sunday at 3:30. book tv. every weekend on c-span 2. now more oral histories from the vietnam archive at texas tech university in lubbock. these stories focus on the november 1965 battle of the idrang valley. bill beck was an assistant machine gunner whose actions at a clearing called landing zone x-ray earned him a silver star. in this hour-long interview he recalls a routine mission on a sunday afternoon that t...

and shares his thoughts on what should be done to avoid a similar fate. sunday at 3:30. book tv. every weekend on c-span 2. now more oral histories from the vietnam archive at texas tech university in lubbock. these stories focus on the november 1965 battle of the idrang valley. bill beck was an assistant machine gunner whose actions at a clearing called landing zone x-ray earned him a silver star. in this hour-long interview he recalls a routine mission on a sun...

either didnt remember the password or didnt say the password quick enough, and on the way back into the perimeter he was shot. this is -- and i dont know if youd talked to freddie owens yet or not. but this is one of freddies buddies that died in freddies arms because, again -- and i wont say it was carelessness, but it was a lapse. a mental lapse. so we talked an awful lot about that. now, again, the rest of the guys went back, 2nd of the 7th, 1st of the 7th went back to thanksgiving ...

and shares his thoughts on what should be done to avoid a similar fate. sunday at 3:30. book tv. every weekend on c-span 2. now more oral histories from the vietnam archive at texas tech university in lubbock. these stories focus on the november 1965 battle of the idrang valley. bill beck was an assistant machine gunner whose actions at a clearing called landing zone x-ray earned him a silver star. in this hour-long interview he recalls a routine mission on a sunday afternoon...

chinese tea house really as a folly in 1914. she hired two architects and commissioned them to travel to china for more than a year and they came back with this design, which was later built. it was an expression of fun she used to host parties centered around the tea house and certainly it was a great focal point standing on the terrace looking out to the sea overlooking this tremendous silhouette the wonderful red color. i think a great, great addition to the entire property of the m...

stretchers that had been dropped off by the medevac guys coming in to go out into the lz. we are assuming we get a single radio call, probably not a lot of folks out there. probably. i dont remember the number but whatever the number was, we took enough guys to do two men stretches. i would imagine the -- maybe 15 guys went out. and -- we did sends a medic with them. his name is daniel torres. they get into the lc or kill zone. and -- so i include calls back and i said -- theres not on...

moving? >> author craig timber tracks the history of aids. tonight at 9:00. part of a book tv weekend on c-span 2. every weekend american history tv brings you oral histories. first person accounts of the events and people that have shaped our history. recently we have been featuring oral histories from the vietnam archive at texas tech university in lubbock. now an excerpt from an interview with the oral history park director kelly crager. looking backward over the years, it will be f...

>> i think it was 123. >> i think so, too. so i got on their frequency. i dont know if the forward air controller from the air force sitting back behind me with hal moore, he must have called him up and said get up here. i had the air force guys i was talking to them right in the airplane and they were droning around up there at night. and this was embedded forever. its dark and you can hear them. and after a little while one of the lieutenants called down and said that dudurig, theyre...

When began the first of his four tours in vietnam for upi. in 1965 he found himself in the middle of the vietnam war first major battle in the central highlands. with lieutenant general hal moore he documented the fight in their book we were soldiers once and young. since vietnam galloway has stayed close to the battlefield, heading back to war over a half dozen times. >> the story is always the same. the absolute raw edge of humanity and this is what you are trying to capture. and there is no o...

Garn the first of his four tours in vietnam for upi. in 1965 he found himself in the middle of the first major battle in the central high lands. with lieutenant general hal moore he documented the fight of the book ""we were soldiers" once and young." since then he has said close to the battlefield heading back to war over half a dozen times. >> the story is always the same. the absolute raw edge of humanity. this is what you are trying to capture. there is no other way to do that than go with t...