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COMBAT STORIES FROM Vietnam

Vis Kimenis | 266th Supply and Service Battalion - Army

4:30   |   Vis Kimenis shares his memories of arriving in Bien Hoa, Vietnam in 1966, and how his lifestyle as a supply and service officer differed from his preconceived notions of deployment to the country.

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  • Vis Kimenis  |  Other  |  -  |  1:34

    After having been a Latvian refugee during World War II, Vis Kimenis talks about revisiting his childhood home 47 years later, and the great strides that Latvia has taken since the war.

WWII
  • Vis Kimenis  |  WWII  |  -  |  12:28

    As a young Latvian child during World War II, Vis Kimenis recalls his dangerous journey as his family became refugees to escape the warfare going on between Soviet and German forces on the Eastern Front.

  • Vis Kimenis  |  WWII  |  -  |  3:04

    Vis Kimenis, a six year old Latvian refugee during World War II, describes how Germany treated the Latvian people, and how young Latvian "volunteers" were conscripted into the German army.

  • Vis Kimenis  |  WWII  |  -  |  2:02

    After the end of World War II, Vis Kimenis talks about how he went from being a refugee from war torn Latvia to becoming an American citizen.

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