Wilton R. Pickett (1968/01/09)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Willliam L. Carter (1969/02/16)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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William M. Phinn (1969/03/18)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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William H. Haakinson III (1970/04/18)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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William D. Choi-Rakofsky (1968/02/26)
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Nelson, Robert L.
Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Welton R. King (1967/06/01)
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Nelson, Robert L.
Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Warren F. Nickel Jr. (1968/05/03)
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Nelson, Robert L.
Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Vincent Locatelli (1965/11/17)
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
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Veterans History Project: An Interview with Terrence J. Plank
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Interview conducted by Jeanne Czarnecki and produced by Jennifer Cockerill. Recorded at Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Downtown Branch, October 21, 2014.
Born in Sunnyside, Washington in 1947, Terrence J. Plank served in the United States Army from 1964 to 1977 during the Vietnam War. He was a combat medic in the 3rd Battalion, 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne division, and a member of the six-man Long Ranger Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) team. Plank was stationed in more than 11 locations, including Landing Zone (LZ) near Phan Thiet, Vietnam. He participated in many counteroffensives and operations from 1967 to 1968, most noticeably Counteroffensive IV and V, Operation Nevada Eagle and the Tet Offensive. He received the following medals: Bronze Star for Valor, Army Commendation Medal, Purple Heart, and Combat Medic Badge. He reached the rank of E-5.
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Veterans History Project: An Interview with Robert Shippen
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Interview conducted by Jeanne Czarnecki and produced by Jennifer Cockerill. Recorded at Headquarters, Santa Cruz Public Libraries, June 30, 2015.
Raised in rural Alabama and Georgia, Robert Edward Lee Shippen had a typically Southern childhood, with many family members having served in the armed forces during World War II. In 1966, Shippen enlisted in the army. Signing up as Airborne Unassigned, he received training in light weapons and attended both paratrooper and officer candidate school. After passing the Special Forces Intelligence test, he started his year-long training for academic medicine and combatant. In December 1967, he arrived in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. As an army medic, he performed many life-saving procedures, treated burns, shrapnel punctures, and chest wounds. During the army's "secret war" in Cambodia, Shippen rescued hundreds of refugees. For his military service, he received many medals of honor, among which are a Combat Medics Badge, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He reached the rank of E5 - Sergeant (Army). Shippen's tour of duty ended in December 1968, but re-enlisted in the army two years later to become a military diver specializing in hyperbaric chamber operations in Okinawa, the Philippines and Korea. He eventually settled in Santa Cruz, California to begin counseling veterans with PTSD at his nonprofit counseling center.
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6/30/2015
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