| Title: |
Christopher Hughes
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
U.S. Institute of Peace. Jeanette Rankin Library Program. Oral Histories Project on Stability Operations
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| Collection: |
Iraq Experience Project
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| Description: |
LTC Chris Hughes is a career army officer. In Iraq, he was a battalion commander in the 101st Airborne Division. His unit rolled up from Najaf to Hillah and finally settled south of Mosul, at Qayyarah West Airfield (“Key West”), where he was the local commander for a 13,000 square kilometer area along the Tigris River. Hughes was stationed in Iraq from the
beginning of the war up until early July 2003.
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| Extent: |
38 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.usip.org/library/oh/sops/iraq/sec/hughes.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 2004 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Hughes, Christopher
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Document date: |
29-Oct-2004
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| Interviewer: |
Gribbin, Mark
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| Historical events discussed: |
Iraq War, 2003
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; Iraq; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; Counterinsurgency--Iraq; Insurgency--Iraq; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003; Iraq War, 2003--Personal narratives; Iraq War, 2003--Public opinion; Iraq War, 2003--Reconstruction; North America; Oral history; United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0034195-37577
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