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Vietnam File 1961-2005

Scope and Contents note

Includes memoir, psychological warfare leaflets, collected materials, and photographs. Arranged by format.
box 1, folder 1

"Memories of a U.S. Army Replacement Battalion: Service and Disservice to the Vietnam War Effort," by Peter O. Hefron, Ph.D., unpublished typescript 2005

 

Psychological warfare leaflets

 

North Vietnam

box 1, folder 2

"U.S. Officers and Men in the 25th Infantry Division"

box 1, folder 3

"Officers and Men in the 1st Air Cav. Div."; "G.I.'s in Dongdu Basecamp!"(2)

box 1, folder 4

"Letter of 3 U.S. P.O.Ws to drivers in the U.S. Army in S.V.N.," "Letter of 3 US P.O.Ws to G.I.s in South [sic] V.N." (2)

box 1, folder 5

"P.O.W. Smith to G.I's"; "Impression of US Released P.O.W"; "Rallied Man Nolan to 1st and 25th Infantrymen!" (3)

box 1, folder 6

"Letter of a Colored P.O.W. to Colored G.I.s in S.V.N."; "Where is the Battlefield of Colored Americans?" (4)

box 1, folder 7

"Toll Bigger Than Last Year"; "When Will Your Turn Be?"; "Repatriate or Die!"

box 1, folder 8

"U.S. Officers and GIs!"; "Welcome to G.I.s Opposing the US Imperialist Aggressive War in South Vietnam?" (3)

box 1, folder 9

"American GIs"; "Officers and Men in the US Armed Forces in South VN!" (2)

box 1, folder 10

"Early End to the Vietnam War, American Troops Back Home Now"; "U.S. Servicemen!" (2)

box 1, folder 11

"G.I.s, Refuse to go out fighting an dying for the capitalist gun-dealers and the rotten puppets in Saigon"; "Put down the corrupt puppet administration of Thiê u-Ky-Huon?"; "Peace of Vietnam, Bring Americans Home." (3)

box 1, folder 12

"The 10 point over-all solution of the SVNNLF to the South Vietnam problem helps restore peace in V.N."; "American G.I's" (2)

box 1, folder 13

"Why???"; "Early end to the Vietnam war, American troops back home now!" (2)

box 1, folder 14

"Hey, Hey LBJ, How many kids did you kill today?"; "American GI's!" (2)

box 1, folder 15

"American Servicemen!"; "The US should immediately begin pulling its troops out of Vietnam with all possible speed" (3)

box 1, folder 16

"What's in Washington's war for you?"; "Senator Wayne Morse (AP April 29, 1967)"; "Do you know?" (3)

box 1, folder 17

"American officers and men" [1 laminated leaflet]

box 1, folder 18

"U.S. Army in South Vietnam! [photocopy]

 

South Vietnam and the United States

box 1, folder 19

"Chiêu Hồi-The Winning Ticket (MACV Command Information Pamphlet 6-68, July 1968)" (3)

box 1, folder 20

"'Chiêu Hồi' mang lai cho bạn một đời sống tự dọ và hạnh phúc (4-23-69)"; "Một thưỏng dân đang nộp...(6-400-69)"; "Hãy trở về trong danh...(2756)" (4)

box 1, folder 21

"Hồi Chánh thật là dễ dàng (2632)"; "Chiêu Hồi-The Winning Ticket"; "Chiêu Hồi, Chiêu Hồi, dấu vũ-khí" (6-361-68). (6)

box 1, folder 22

"Bạn có biết sự thật? (2380);" (7)

box 1, folder 23

"Làm sao đ đứợc an-toàn? (6-194-69) (6)

box 1, folder 24

"�ừng đợi đến khi... (147-66-R)"; "�ây phóng pháo cơ khõng lồ B.52" (146-66-1); "Chính phủ muốn đồng..." (SP-2316). (3)

box 1, folder 25

"Lòng nhân đạo..." (3040). (1)

box 1, folder 26

"Các bạn cán bộ" (3041). (1)

box 1, folder 27

"Giấy thông-hành." (3)

box 1, folder 28

"Saigon đẹp lấm" (4-15-69). (1)

box 1, folder 29

"Anh hãy về đây..." (3488); "Đồng bào miền nam..." (3494). (2)

box 1, folder 30

"Các bạn cán-binh trong hang ngữ Việt-Cộng" (SP-1380). (1)

box 1, folder 31

"Các bạn cán-binh trong M.T.G.P. chú ý!!" (6-443-68). (1)

box 1, folder 32

"Có phải những người này..." (SP-1415); "Cùng các bạn cán binh..." (3501). (1)

box 1, folder 33

"Cùng các bạn chiến sĩ từ bác vào nam" (2547). (1)

box 1, folder 34

Clippings about psychological warfare

 

Other collected material/subject files 1961-1979

box 1, folder 35

Anti-Vietnam war pamphlets, collected in and around Boston 1970-1973

box 1, folder 36

Bombing of Vietnam

box 1, folder 37

Campaign against drug abuse and prostitutes, U.S. military

box 1, folder 38

Combat humor, material produced by U.S. Army personnel

box 1, folder 39

Elections, Republic of Vietnam (South), pamphlets 1967 and undated

box 1, folder 40

Legal basis for U.S. intervention in Vietnam (copies of documents), 1954-1964; U.S.-North Vietnam peace agreement (photocopy) 1973

box 1, folder 41

Maps of Vietnam, issued by U.S. Army

box 1, folder 42

Miscellany, U.S. Armed Forces: "Code of Conduct" card, military payment certificates, Geneva Convention identification card, U.S. postage stamp (1979) with explanation of Vietnam Service Medal attached

box 1, folder 43

My Lai massacre

box 1, folder 44

POW-MIA campaigns

box 1, folder 45

Public information and press releases, U.S. military 1969

box 1, folder 46

Publications, Republic of Vietnam (South) 1969 and undated

 

Publications, U.S. Army in Vietnam

box 1, folder 47

Military units, 1966-1970: Uptight, Winter 1970; The Hurricane, October 1969; Vietnam: A Pictorial; Time magazine insert, "The Negro in Viet Nam," 1967

box 2, folder 1

Soldiers: "A Pocket Guide to Vietnam," 1962; "Handbook for U.S. Forces in Vietnam," 1968; "RVNAF" (Republic of Viet Nam Armed Forces), 1969; "The Enemy You Face," 1969

box 2, folder 2

Vietnamese employees: Thông Cảm , December 1969, March 1970, and April 1970

box 2, folder 3

Publications, U.S. Department of State, about Vietnam 1961-1970

box 2, folder 4

Publications, non-governmental, about Vietnam War

 

Photographs 1969-1970, 1995-2003

 

90th Replacement Battalion, U.S. Army, Long Binh, South Vietnam 1969-1970

box 2, folder 5

General pictures

box 2, folder 6

Meritorious unit citation 1969 June

box 2, folder 7

Medical Civic Action Program, near Long Binh

box 2, folder 8

Civic action program with Cao Thai village

box 2, folder 9

Site of communist rocket attack on base 1970 Spring

box 2, folder 10

Monsoon rains

box 2, folder 11

Various, including dispensary, post exchange and unit mascot dog, "Brandy"

box 2, folder 12

178th Company, Tan Son Nhut airbase, Saigon

box 2, folder 13

259th Company, processing troops at end of tour of duty

box 2, folder 14

Headquarter Detachment, Long Binh (file 1)

box 2, folder 15

Headquarter Detachment, Long Binh (file 2), includes some photos of 178th Company at Tan Son Nhut airbase

box 2, folder 16

Processing incoming soldiers at Bien Hoa airbase

box 3, folder 1

U.S. Army Vietnam headquarters, Long Binh

box 3, folder 2

Australian military base, Vung Tau

box 3, folder 3

Various scenes, around Long Binh and Saigon 1969 May - 1970 April

box 3, folder 4

U.S. Army quartermaster laundry for soldiers, on road between Long Binh and Saigon

box 3, folder 5

Saigon during wartime 1969 May - 1970 April

box 3, folder 6

Saigon, remains of zoo

box 3, folder 7

Rural Development Corps

box 3, folder 8

Aerial views of Vietnam

box 3, folder 9

Route 1 between Long Binh and Saigon

box 3, folder 10

South Vietnam, government buildings and religious buildings

box 3, folder 11

U.S. Embassy, Saigon and Hanoi 1969-1995

box 3, folder 12

Former presidential palaces, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) 1995-2003

box 3, folder 13

Various postcards and photos 1990s

box 3, folder 14

Cholon, Chinese quarter of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) 1969, 2003

box 3, folder 15

Hue, postcards and photos 1995

box 3, folder 16

War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 1995 and 2003

box 3, folder 17

French colonial influenced architecture and art 1995-2003

box 3, folder 18

Chinese influence in Vietnam

box 4, folder 1

War memorials and cemeteries 1995, 2003

box 4, folder 2

Cao Dai religion

box 4, folder 3

War museums, Hue, Hanoi and Danang 1995 and 2003

box 4, folder 4

Historic museums, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 1995, 2003

box 4, folder 5

Hanoi 1995

box 4, folder 6

Booklets from historic museums, file 1 1995-2003

box 4, folder 7

Booklets from historic museums, file 2 1995-2003

box 4, folder 8

North Vietnamese revolutionary art 1995-2003

box 4, folder 9

Vietnam, countryside around Hanoi, Danang, Cuchi 1995-2003

box 4, folder 10

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 1995-2003

box 4, folder 11

Mekong River Delta 2003

box 5, folder 1

My Tho (Mekong Delta) 2003

box 5, folder 2

Pollution and recycling, Mekong Delta 2003

box 5, folder 3

Can Tho, car battery recycling shop 2003

box 5, folder 4

Can Tho (Mekong Delta) 2003

box 5, folder 5

Places associated with South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem

box 5, folder 6

Ho Chi Minh monuments 1995-2003

box 5, folder 7

Birth control and AIDS/HIV 1995-2003

box 5, folder 8

Miscellaneous

 

Asia (Other than Vietnam) File circa 1990s-2000s

Scope and Contents note

Consists of collected materials such as booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, photographs, and sound recordings. Arranged by country.
 

Cambodia and Thailand

box 5, folder 9

Tuol Sleng Prison museum, Phnom Penh

box 5, folder 10

Destroyed buildings, Phnom Penh

box 5, folder 11

Choeung Ek, "Killing Fields" memorial

box 5, folder 12

Vietnamese Victory monument, and other sites in Phnom Penh

box 5, folder 13

Military museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia

box 5, folder 14

Thailand, "Bridge over the River Kwai," Kanchana Buri

 

China: People's Republic

box 5, folder 15

Revolutionary Songs of China (songbook) 1971

box 5, folder 16

Beijing: Chinese Revolutionary History Museum

box 5, folder 17

Beijing: Anti Japanese Resistance War museum

box 5, folder 18

Nanjing: Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall 1996

box 5, folder 17

Shanghai: Site of the first session of the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

 

Sound recordings

record cabinet

The East is Red / Sailing the Seas Depends Upon the Helmsman (China Record Company / Guozi Shudian, XM-1031, 33 1/3 r.p.m. sound disc, undated)

record cabinet

Historical Songs of the Revolution, sung and accompanied by the Central Music Ensemble (China Record Company / Guozi Shudian, XM-1033, 33 1/3 r.p.m. sound disc, undated)

record cabinet

Two further records, China Record Company / Guozi Shudian, XM-1030 and XM-1037, 33 1/3 r.p.m. sound disc, undated)

 

China: Republic of (Taiwan)

box 6, folder 1

Quemoy (Kinmen) and Matsu Islands: photographs

box 6, folder 2

Quemoy (Kinmen) and Matsu Islands: postcards and book

 

Japan

box 6, folder 3

Tokyo: Yasukuni Shrine, booklets

box 6, folder 4

Tokyo: Yasukuni Shrine, photographs 1999

box 6, folder 5

Tokyo: Chidorigafuchi Shrine, photographs 2004

box 6, folder 6

Hiroshima: Peace Park and Museum 1999

box 6, folder 7

Hiroshima: Peace Museum, temporary exhibit on women in wartime 1999

box 6, folder 8

Hiroshima: Peace Park, postcards

box 6, folder 9

Hiroshima: War Memorial, Gokuko Shinto Shrine 1999

box 6, folder 10

Nagasaki: Brochures and pamphlets about memorials, museums

box 6, folder 11

Nagasaki: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, booklets and postcards

box 7, folder 1

Nagasaki: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, photographs 1998

box 7, folder 2

Nagasaki: Urakami Branch Prison memorial 1998

box 7, folder 3

Nagasaki: Cathedral ruins 1998

box 7, folder 4

Nagasaki: Epicenter Park 1998

box 7, folder 5

Nagasaki: Peace Park, statues 1998

box 7, folder 6

Posters: Japanese and British, World War II (postcards)

box 7, folder 7

Various Japanese memorials to war dead: Guam, Saipan, Nagoya (Japan), Corregidor (Philippines) 1998-2002

box 7, folder 8

Various memorials to nationalities killed by Japanese in World War II: Guam, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore 1994-1998

box 7, folder 9

Okinawa: various memorials 1998

box 7, folder 10

Tokyo: Admiral Togo Shinto shrine 2004

box 7, folder 11

Tokyo: General Nogi Shinto shrine 2004

 

Korea (South)

box 8, folder 1

Seoul: Monuments regarding history of Japanese colonialism

box 8, folder 2

Korean War: Inchon landing memorials and museums

box 8, folder 3

Republic of Korea Military Museum and Memorial

box 8, folder 4

Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom

 

Mongolia

box 8

Ulan Bator

 

Philippines

box 8

Corregidor

box 8

Singapore

 

Europe File 1918-1994

Scope and Contents note

Contains collected materials such as booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, postcards, and photographs. Arranged by country.
 

Poland

box 8

Anti-Communism 1918-1990

box 8

Polish nationalism 1914-1918

box 8

Battle of Westerplatte, Danzig/Gdansk 1939

box 8

Pawiak Prison Museum, Warsaw

box 8

Anti-Nazi monuments and memorials

box 8

Polish victims of World War II

box 8

Warsaw Uprising 1944

box 8

Anti-Communist monuments, including Katyn Forest

box 8

World War II memorials, various

box 8

Polish Government in Exile, London

box 9

Poland under Communism

box 9

Solidarity (Solidarność) monuments

box 9

Role of the Catholic Church in opposing communism

box 9

St. Brigid's Church, Gdańsk

box 9

Father Jerzy Popieluszko

box 9

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw

box 9

Polish Military Museum, Warsaw

box 9

Polish Communist government buildings, Warsaw

box 9

Changes in Poland after Communist rule

 

Eastern Europe, other

box 9

Albania

box 9

Czech Republic, memorial at Lidice

box 9

Romania 1979

 

Germany, East and West

 

Berlin

box 10, folder 1

Berlin Wall, checkpoints

box 10, folder 2

Brandenburg Gate, with Quadriga sculpture

box 10, folder 3

Berlin Wall, anti-Soviet graffiti

box 10, folder 4

Berlin Wall, opening of wall 1989 November

box 10, folder 5

Berlin Wall, West German graffiti

box 10, folder 6

Television Tower, Alexanderplatz

box 10, folder 7

Neue Wache, Memorial to Victims of Fascism

box 10, folder 8

Military parades and Marxist monuments 1985-1989

box 10, folder 9

Statue of Friedrich the Great, Unter den Linden

box 10, folder 10

East German government buildings

box 10, folder 11

40th anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II (pamphlet) 1985

box 10, folder 12

East German tourist brochure, Berlin 1978

box 10, folder 13

West Berlin, various photographs and postcards

 

East Germany

box 10, folder 14

Transition 1990-1993

box 10, folder 15

Transition, Jena, 1988; Leipzig, 1989

box 10, folder 16

Political souvenirs

 

Cold War history

box 11, folder 1

Berlin Airlift: Postcards, postage stamps, and photographs of Tempelhof Airport

box 11, folder 2

Four Power division of Berlin

box 11, folder 3

Boundary wall dividing East and West Germany 1990

box 11, folder 4

Soviet military forces and installations, East Germany

 

Reunification 1990

box 11, folder 5

Postcards

box 11, folder 6

Opposition graffiti

box 11, folder 7

Street name changes

box 11, folder 8

SED (former East German ruling party)

 

Historic monuments and museums

box 11, folder 9

Victory Column (Siegessäule), Berlin

box 11, folder 10

Monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I, Koblenz

box 11, folder 11

World War I memorials

box 11, folder 12

Nazi concentration camps (in and outside of Germany)

box 11, folder 13

Memorials to German resistance leaders, World War II / July 20 plot, Berlin

box 11, folder 14

Museum of Unconditional Surrender of Germany, Berlin-Karlshorst

box 11, folder 15

Soviet War memorials

box 11, folder 16

Bitburg cemetery

box 11, folder 17

Exhibits of Weimar-era and anti-Nazi art

box 11, folder 18

Potsdam, Schloss Cecilienhof, site of Potsdam Conference 1945

 

Miscellaneous

box 11, folder 18

West German attitudes toward America 1980s

box 11, folder 19

Bonn and its environs, including Konrad Adenauer memorials

box 11, folder 20

Peace movements, West Germany 1980s

 

Other European

box 12, folder 1

French battlefields from World War I, World War II: Photographs and postcards

box 12, folder 2

Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen), Spain

box 12, folder 3

Belfast, Northern Ireland: Photographs of murals and military activity

box 12, folder 4

Opposition to nuclear arms, Great Britain 1984-1990

box 12, folder 5

Malta, Guide to National War Museum 1994

box 12, folder 6

Denmark, Museum of Denmark's Fight for Freedom 1940-1945

box 12, folder 7

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Leaflet dropped by NATO planes with humanitarian supplies 1992

box 12, folder 8

Karl Marx: Monuments and historic sites, Great Britain and Germany

box 12, folder 9

Georgia: Stalin Museum, Gori, Georgia

 

Miscellany 1961-2003

Scope and Contents note

Includes leaflets, currency, and other collected materials. Arranged by country or organization.
box 12, folder 10

Angola: Leaflet promoting Jonas Savimbi 1992

box 12, folder 11

Iran: Currency following overthrow of Shah, 1979; and postage stamp honoring assassin of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat 1982

box 12, folder 12

Iraq: Photocopies of leaflets used by American and coalition forces against Iraqi Army 1991, 2003

box 12, folder 13

United Nations: Card with rules of conduct of U.N. Peacekeepers

box 12, folder 14

United States: "The Family Fallout Shelter," Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense 1961

 

Sound Recordings

record cabinet

China Record Company catalog number XM-1030

record cabinet

China Record Company catalog number XM-1031

record cabinet

China Record Company catalog number XM-1033

record cabinet

China Record Company catalog number XM-1037