Broe, Daniel (Interview outline and video), 2012

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Title

Broe, Daniel (Interview outline and video), 2012

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Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Description

Daniel Broe was born in Allegan, Michigan in 1949, and grew up there and in Holland, Michigan. He went to work after high school, and was drafted into the Marine Corps in 1969. He did well enough in rifle training at Camp Pendleton to be put into scout/sniper training, and went to Vietnam early in 1970. Assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, he spent most of his tour on patrols in the northern part of South Vietnam, with occasional forays into Laos. The patrols were intended to find the enemy without being seen, and for the most part they avoided firefights, and took no casualties while Broe was in the field, despite a number of scares. While trained as a sniper, he never had occasion to carry out a sniper assignment, and instead operated his squad's radio. Toward the end of his tour, his unit shifted its area of operations away from the Laotion border and closer to Da Nang, and he was eventually assigned to a radio relay station, where he communicated between the units in the field and the rear area headquarters.

Date

2012-01-25

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Publisher

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

BroeD1340V

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application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng

Citation

Broe, Daniel, “Broe, Daniel (Interview outline and video), 2012,” Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27149.
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