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- Name:
- James Henry Drennan
- State of Birth:
- IN
- Home State:
- VA
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- Unspecified
- War or Conflict
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Military Status
- Veteran
- Dates of Service
- 1955-1990
- Entrance into Service
- Commissioned
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Unit of Service
- Headquarters Battery, 136th Field Artillery Battalion, 37th Infantry Division, Ohio Army National Guard; 7th Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment
- Location of Service
- Camp Stoneman, California; Fort Ord, California; Dayton, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Dix, New Jersey; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; Washington, DC; Camp Radcliff, An Khe, Vietnam
- Highest Rank
- Colonel
- Prisoner of War
- No
- Service History Note
- The veteran served as commander of Battery A, 136th Field Artillery Battalion in Ohio; and as battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment in Vietnam. He also served in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans at the Pentagon; then later as special assistant to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau at the Pentagon.
- War or Conflict
- Korean War, 1950-1953
- Military Status
- Veteran
- Dates of Service
- 1952-1954
- Entrance into Service
- Commissioned
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Unit of Service
- 932nd Field Artillery Battalion, 31st Infantry Division; C Battery, 39th Field Artillery Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division; Army Reserve
- Location of Service
- Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Korea
- Highest Rank
- Second Lieutenant
- Prisoner of War
- No
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- Type of Resource:
- Video: Betacam SP [2 items] -- Oral history interview
- Video: Betacam SP [2 items] -- Oral history interview
- Manuscript: Correspondence [14 items] -- Handwritten document
- Manuscript: Memoirs [1 item] -- Typewritten document
- Manuscript: Military papers (orders, personnel/201 files, etc) [2 items] -- Typewritten document
- Manuscript: Regimental/unit histories [1 item] -- Typewritten document
- Manuscript: Transcript [1 item] -- Typewritten document
- Photograph: Photocopy of photographic print [135 items] -- Photographs
- Manuscript: Biographical information [1 item] -- Typewritten document
- Manuscript: Maps [1 item] -- Typewritten document
- Manuscript: Memoirs [3 items] -- Typewritten document
- Interviewer:
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Sandra Daugherty
- Interviewer:
-
Jim Buckley
- Interviewer:
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Susanne Carsten
- Contributor:
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Sandra Daugherty
- Contributor Affiliation/Organization:
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Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
- Collection #:
- AFC/2001/001/41576
- Subjects:
- Drennan, James Henry
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal Narratives
- United States. Army.
- Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal Narratives
- United States. Army.
- Cite as:
- James Henry Drennan Collection
(AFC/2001/001/41576), Veterans History Project,
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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