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- Name:
- Charles Seymour Kettles
- State of Birth:
- MI
- Home State:
- MI
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
- War or Conflict
- Korean War, 1950-1953
- Military Status
- Veteran
- Dates of Service
- 1951-1978
- Entrance into Service
- Drafted
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Unit of Service
- 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division
- Location of Service
- Korea; Japan; France; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Ord, California; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Fort Bliss, Texas
- Prisoner of War
- No
- War or Conflict
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Military Status
- Veteran
- Entrance into Service
- Drafted
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Unit of Service
- 176th Aviation Company, 14th Combat Aviation Battalion, Americal Division; 121st Aviation Company; Task Force Oregon
- Location of Service
- Vietnam; Thailand; Fort Wolters, Texas; France; Fort Sam Houston, Texas
- Highest Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Prisoner of War
- No
- Service History Note
- The veteran earned the Medal of Honor for his service on 05/05/1967 near the Song Tra Cau riverbed in Vietnam. When he learned that members of a 101st Airborne Division unit had suffered casualties during an intense firefight with the enemy, he volunteered to lead a flight of six UH-1D helicopters to carry reinforcements to the embattled force and to evacuate wounded personnel. He returned repeatedly to evacuate personnel under fire.
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- Type of Resource:
- Video: DVD [1 item] -- Oral history interview
- Manuscript: Military papers (orders, personnel/201 files, etc) [2 items] -- Typewritten document
- Photograph: Mixed (Multiple types of photographs) [3 items] -- Photograph
- Manuscript: Clippings [2 items] -- Typewritten document
- Interviewer:
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William Vollano
- Contributor:
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Mimi Chapman
- Contributor Affiliation/Organization:
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Ypsilanti District Library and Ypsilanti Rotary
- Collection #:
- AFC/2001/001/53019
- Subjects:
- Kettles, Charles Seymour
- Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal Narratives
- United States. Army.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal Narratives
- United States. Army.
- Cite as:
- Charles Seymour Kettles Collection
(AFC/2001/001/53019), Veterans History Project,
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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