Gary Banta: Interview

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Date
2010-02-11
Main contributor
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.
Contributors
KAMU-TV (Television station : College Station, Tex.); Turbiville, Tom
Genres
MovingImage; interview; Oral histories
Subjects
Banta, Gary; Veterans--United States--Interviews; United States. Army; United States. Army; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Collection
Veterans of the Valley
Unit
Collections
Language
English
Terms of Use
In copyright-educational use permitted; For more information, see http://rightsstatementsorg/vocab/InC-EDU/10/
Notes
Items in this collection were donated to Cushing Memorial Library and Archives in 2017 by Tom Turbiville

Creation/Production Credits

From "Veterans of the Valley," a television series created by host Tom Turbiville and produced at KAMU-TV’s studio on the Texas A&M University, College Station campus

Local Note

reformatted digital
Other Identifier
Catalog Key: 03-VOTV-Banta_Gary-video

Access Restrictions

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