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Bob Hyatt

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When Bob Hyatt got to Vietnam with the 5th Special Forces Group, he found many of his friends from training already hard at work. The group was spread throughout the country, with headquarters at Nha Trang. As he awaited assignment, he noted one particular camp that seemed exposed and not very secure where it was located. Wouldn't want to be posted there! (3:46)

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Bob Hyatt was an advisor to a large Vietnamese unit comprised of different, distinct groups who all had competing interests. The camp was between Saigon and the Cambodian border where there were lots of booby traps, but not much heavy combat. The Viet Cong were not eager for a big fight. (6:27)

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It wasn't just the Viet Cong who spread booby traps in Vietnam. Bob Hyatt describes a type of mine that sent out trip wires in multiple directions. It was advanced technology for the time but it was prone to being taken and used by the enemy. (2:23)

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American advisor Bob Hyatt was sharing a cigarette with his one of his Vietnamese soldiers when the man made a startling prediction. He was a North Vietnamese who had come to help the cause of the South. It was a difficult fight because of so many disparate factions, including competing Buddhist sects. (5:41)

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The Special Forces camp was prone to mortar fire directed by Viet Cong sympathizers within the camp. Bob Hyatt points out how that problem mirrored the problems of the South Vietnamese government at large. The French educated Catholics at the top were directing people who had a completely different culture. (4:03)

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When Bob Hyatt flew back to the United States after his Vietnam tour, he changed into a Hong Kong suit and threw away his fatigues. He knew what to expect. He had a good transition to civilian life, winding down at Fort Riley and playing golf, then finding a rewarding career. He muses over the difficulty of that war and what our motives might have been. (5:30)

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American Advisor Bob Hyatt recalls his friends from the Special Forces camp in Vietnam and wonders how that kind of war could have happened in the first place. (2:23)

Bob Jewitt

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He joined the Army on a lark and trained in a tank outfit. Then, Bob Jewitt got a surprise when the Korean War broke out and he was on his way across the Pacific. As he disembarked, there was one thing that astounded him, something not even his farming background could match. He got another surprise at the barracks when he looked around for the latrine. (6:26)

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In his Korean War tank outfit, Bob Jewitt met a soldier named Peter Isabella. On the ship, the World War II veteran told funny stories and also remarked that he felt he would not return from this fight. Bob dismissed that talk and began to learn what combat was all about as he got shot at and responded in kind, answering a question he had posed to himself. Part 1 of 2. (8:17)

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The explosion in the tank happened in a second and Bob Jewitt didn't even know what just happened. "Get the hell out of here!" came the order, but first, under fire, he pulled another crew member from the forward hatch and dragged him to safety under the tank. But there was one more crew member. Part 2 of 2. (6:15)