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Start Over Main contributor Banta, Gary Date 2010 Collection Veterans of the Valley

1. Gary Banta: Interview (28:47)

Date:
2010-02-11
Main contributors:
Banta, Gary
Summary:
Gary Banta, U.S. Army, Vietnam (Interviewed Feb. 11, 2010) Gary Banta joined the Army in 1967, well into the Vietnam War. he both drove and rode shotgun on truck convoys, delivering supplies to the hotspots where choppers and aircraft could not land. It was a year tour that certainly had it’s danger. Later he was assigned to Ft. Knox where he did indeed see the gold! And he was a chaplain’s assistant in Germany.