Digital Collections

You can suggest corrections to the following fields for item Toms, Alan (Interview outline and video, 2 of 2), 2011.

You can also leave general comments or suggestions in the "comments" section. An administrator will review your contribution.

Thank you for taking the time to improve this site!

Comments

Please describe the nature of this correction, or anything about it that we should know. Thanks!

Can we contact you?

Check this box if it is okay for us to contact you about this correction.

Contributor

An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource

Current data for Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Creator

An entity primarily responsible for making the resource

Current data for Creator

Toms, Alan

Date

A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource

Current data for Date

2011-03-10

Description

An account of the resource

Current data for Description

After completing his tour in Vietnam with the Air Cavalry, Alan Toms returned to the United States, where he completed drill sergeant training before going to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. From Fort Campbell, Toms deployed for a second time to Germany, where he met a girl from Hamburg who he eventually married. Toms returned to the United States in 1970 with his wife and her son and went to Fort Knox, Kentucky to give more basic training. Eventually, the Army sent Toms back to Western Michigan University, where he finished his degree before deploying for a third time to Germany, to join the Berlin Brigade. Finally, when Toms returned to the United States, he went to the Virginia Military Institute's ROTC program before finally retiring from the military.

Source

A related resource from which the described resource is derived

Current data for Source

Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)

report a problem with this page

Digital Collections

Address

Contact

Social Media