Hayhurst, Robert (Interview transcript and video), 2009
Serafino, Meg (Interviewer)
Lest We Forget
Robert Hayhurst was born in Wisconsin in 1943. After completing college, he enlisted in the Army in 1966 and trained in military intelligence. He was initially posted to Germany, but requested a transfer to Vietnam in 1967. He was assigned to a military intelligence unit based in Hue. His unit was small and headquartered in the city rather than on a military base, so when the Tet Offensive began in 1968, his unit were besieged in their house and eventually captured by the North Vietnamese and smuggled out of Hue. While being marched overland toward Laos, he and one other prisoner escaped their captors and made it back to American lines. After extensive debriefing, he accepted reassignment to the United States for the last year of his enlistment, and was discharged in 1969.
2009-09-17
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Hayhurst, Robert, “Hayhurst, Robert (Interview transcript and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29071.