Baker-Clark, Charles (Interview outline and video), 2012

• Main Author: Baker-Clark, Charles
• Other Authors: Smither, James (Interviewer), Kentwood Historic Preservation Commission (Kentwood, Mich.), WKTV, WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives 2012
• Subjects: Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); United States > History; Military; Michigan > History; Veterans; Video recordings; United States. Navy; Other veterans & civilians > Personal narratives; American; Orion; Iceland
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27093; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/dcb9ff60df6b54a70f624aa633a3b07d.mp4; https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/4615349f19948ad2a07faebbd22057c0.pdf

Charles Baker-Clark, born in St. Lois Missouri in 1948, served in the U.S. Navy from 1968-1970 as a Naval Corpsman during the Vietnam Era. After completing his basic training at Great Lakes Naval Academy, Charles was given medical training at the same base. After this was completed he was then sent to Naples Italy where he served in a naval hospital. In December of 1968 Charles had to be moved after he was involved as an informant used to bust a group selling drugs on the base. Charles was then moved to Maine where he served in another naval hospital. Soon after, he was sent to Iceland and then Sicily Italy where he served with a Unit of PT Orion pilots.