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Interview with Herbert Bluechel, 1981 / by Richard Ellison and Herbert Bluechel.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Vietnam : a television history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam--Foreign relations--France.
- Vietnam.
- Vietnam--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States.
- Vietnam--History.
- Vietnam--Military relations--France.
- Vietnam--Military relations--Great Britain.
- Vietnam--Military relations--United States.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (27 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, 1983.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Herbert Bluechel served in Vietnam in the mid-1940s. He recalls British General Gracey's entry into Saigon and describes a meeting between French General Philippe Leclerc and O.S.S. officer Peter Dewey; Dewey would be the first American casualty in Vietnam, prior to the official start of the war. He recounts the events surrounding Dewey's death in detail. Finally, he discusses the mood of the country and Vietnamese attitudes towards the French, the British, and the Americans.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 5, 2012).
- OCLC:
- 827297815
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