Playboy Interview: Anthony Herbert
July, 1972
a candid conversation with the "supersoldier" who was forced to leave the army for exposing war crimes—and high-level cover-up—in VietnamIn 1944, a gangly 14-year-old boy named Anthony Herbert ran away from his home in Herminie, a tough Pennsylvania coal-mining town, to join the Marines in the Pacific. His mother and his high school principal folloiued him, convinced the Marines he wasn't 17 and took him back home. Three years later he tried again and, along with a black friend, xvas a...
