Register of the Peter Oslin Hefron papers
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
"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of a U.S. Army Replacement Battalion: Service and Disservice to the Vietnam War Effort," by Peter O. Hefron, Ph.D., unpublished typescript 2005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
"U.S. Officers and Men in the 25th Infantry Division"
"Officers and Men in the 1st Air Cav. Div."; "G.I.'s in Dongdu Basecamp!"(2)
"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)
"P.O.W. Smith to G.I's"; "Impression of US Released P.O.W"; "Rallied Man Nolan to 1st and 25th Infantrymen!" (3)
"Letter of a Colored P.O.W. to Colored G.I.s in S.V.N."; "Where is the Battlefield of Colored Americans?" (4)
"Toll Bigger Than Last Year"; "When Will Your Turn Be?"; "Repatriate or Die!"
"U.S. Officers and GIs!"; "Welcome to G.I.s Opposing the US Imperialist Aggressive War in South Vietnam?" (3)
"American GIs"; "Officers and Men in the US Armed Forces in South VN!" (2)
"Early End to the Vietnam War, American Troops Back Home Now"; "U.S. Servicemen!" (2)
"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)
"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)
"Why???"; "Early end to the Vietnam war, American troops back home now!" (2)
"Hey, Hey LBJ, How many kids did you kill today?"; "American GI's!" (2)
"American Servicemen!"; "The US should immediately begin pulling its troops out of Vietnam with all possible speed" (3)
"What's in Washington's war for you?"; "Senator Wayne Morse (AP April 29, 1967)"; "Do you know?" (3)
"American officers and men" [1 laminated leaflet]
"U.S. Army in South Vietnam! [photocopy]
South Vietnam and the United States
"Chiêu Hồi-The Winning Ticket (MACV Command Information Pamphlet 6-68, July 1968)" (3)
"'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)
"Hồi Chánh thật là dễ dàng (2632)"; "Chiêu Hồi-The Winning Ticket"; "Chiêu Hồi, Chiêu Hồi, dấu vũ-khí" (6-361-68). (6)
"Bạn có biết sự thật? (2380);" (7)
"Làm sao đ đứợc an-toàn? (6-194-69) (6)
"�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)
"Lòng nhân đạo..." (3040). (1)
"Các bạn cán bộ" (3041). (1)
"Giấy thông-hành." (3)
"Saigon đẹp lấm" (4-15-69). (1)
"Anh hãy về đây..." (3488); "Đồng bào miền nam..." (3494). (2)
"Các bạn cán-binh trong hang ngữ Việt-Cộng" (SP-1380). (1)
"Các bạn cán-binh trong M.T.G.P. chú ý!!" (6-443-68). (1)
"Có phải những người này..." (SP-1415); "Cùng các bạn cán binh..." (3501). (1)
"Cùng các bạn chiến sĩ từ bác vào nam" (2547). (1)
Clippings about psychological warfare
Other collected material/subject files 1961-1979
Anti-Vietnam war pamphlets, collected in and around Boston 1970-1973
Bombing of Vietnam
Campaign against drug abuse and prostitutes, U.S. military
Combat humor, material produced by U.S. Army personnel
Elections, Republic of Vietnam (South), pamphlets 1967 and undated
Legal basis for U.S. intervention in Vietnam (copies of documents), 1954-1964; U.S.-North Vietnam peace agreement (photocopy) 1973
Maps of Vietnam, issued by U.S. Army
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
My Lai massacre
POW-MIA campaigns
Public information and press releases, U.S. military 1969
Publications, Republic of Vietnam (South) 1969 and undated
Publications, U.S. Army in Vietnam
Military units, 1966-1970: Uptight, Winter 1970; The Hurricane, October 1969; Vietnam: A Pictorial; Time magazine insert, "The Negro in Viet Nam," 1967
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
Vietnamese employees: Thông Cảm , December 1969, March 1970, and April 1970
Publications, U.S. Department of State, about Vietnam 1961-1970
Publications, non-governmental, about Vietnam War
Photographs 1969-1970, 1995-2003
90th Replacement Battalion, U.S. Army, Long Binh, South Vietnam 1969-1970
General pictures
Meritorious unit citation 1969 June
Medical Civic Action Program, near Long Binh
Civic action program with Cao Thai village
Site of communist rocket attack on base 1970 Spring
Monsoon rains
Various, including dispensary, post exchange and unit mascot dog, "Brandy"
178th Company, Tan Son Nhut airbase, Saigon
259th Company, processing troops at end of tour of duty
Headquarter Detachment, Long Binh (file 1)
Headquarter Detachment, Long Binh (file 2), includes some photos of 178th Company at Tan Son Nhut airbase
Processing incoming soldiers at Bien Hoa airbase
U.S. Army Vietnam headquarters, Long Binh
Australian military base, Vung Tau
Various scenes, around Long Binh and Saigon 1969 May - 1970 April
U.S. Army quartermaster laundry for soldiers, on road between Long Binh and Saigon
Saigon during wartime 1969 May - 1970 April
Saigon, remains of zoo
Rural Development Corps
Aerial views of Vietnam
Route 1 between Long Binh and Saigon
South Vietnam, government buildings and religious buildings
U.S. Embassy, Saigon and Hanoi 1969-1995
Former presidential palaces, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) 1995-2003
Various postcards and photos 1990s
Cholon, Chinese quarter of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) 1969, 2003
Hue, postcards and photos 1995
War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 1995 and 2003
French colonial influenced architecture and art 1995-2003
Chinese influence in Vietnam
War memorials and cemeteries 1995, 2003
Cao Dai religion
War museums, Hue, Hanoi and Danang 1995 and 2003
Historic museums, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 1995, 2003
Hanoi 1995
Booklets from historic museums, file 1 1995-2003
Booklets from historic museums, file 2 1995-2003
North Vietnamese revolutionary art 1995-2003
Vietnam, countryside around Hanoi, Danang, Cuchi 1995-2003
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 1995-2003
Mekong River Delta 2003
My Tho (Mekong Delta) 2003
Pollution and recycling, Mekong Delta 2003
Can Tho, car battery recycling shop 2003
Can Tho (Mekong Delta) 2003
Places associated with South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh monuments 1995-2003
Birth control and AIDS/HIV 1995-2003
Miscellaneous
Cambodia and Thailand
Tuol Sleng Prison museum, Phnom Penh
Destroyed buildings, Phnom Penh
Choeung Ek, "Killing Fields" memorial
Vietnamese Victory monument, and other sites in Phnom Penh
Military museum, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Thailand, "Bridge over the River Kwai," Kanchana Buri
China: People's Republic
Revolutionary Songs of China (songbook) 1971
Beijing: Chinese Revolutionary History Museum
Beijing: Anti Japanese Resistance War museum
Nanjing: Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall 1996
Shanghai: Site of the first session of the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Sound recordings
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)
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)
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)
Quemoy (Kinmen) and Matsu Islands: photographs
Quemoy (Kinmen) and Matsu Islands: postcards and book
Japan
Tokyo: Yasukuni Shrine, booklets
Tokyo: Yasukuni Shrine, photographs 1999
Tokyo: Chidorigafuchi Shrine, photographs 2004
Hiroshima: Peace Park and Museum 1999
Hiroshima: Peace Museum, temporary exhibit on women in wartime 1999
Hiroshima: Peace Park, postcards
Hiroshima: War Memorial, Gokuko Shinto Shrine 1999
Nagasaki: Brochures and pamphlets about memorials, museums
Nagasaki: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, booklets and postcards
Nagasaki: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, photographs 1998
Nagasaki: Urakami Branch Prison memorial 1998
Nagasaki: Cathedral ruins 1998
Nagasaki: Epicenter Park 1998
Nagasaki: Peace Park, statues 1998
Posters: Japanese and British, World War II (postcards)
Various Japanese memorials to war dead: Guam, Saipan, Nagoya (Japan), Corregidor (Philippines) 1998-2002
Various memorials to nationalities killed by Japanese in World War II: Guam, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore 1994-1998
Okinawa: various memorials 1998
Tokyo: Admiral Togo Shinto shrine 2004
Tokyo: General Nogi Shinto shrine 2004
Korea (South)
Seoul: Monuments regarding history of Japanese colonialism
Korean War: Inchon landing memorials and museums
Republic of Korea Military Museum and Memorial
Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom
Mongolia
Ulan Bator
Philippines
Corregidor
Singapore
Poland
Anti-Communism 1918-1990
Polish nationalism 1914-1918
Battle of Westerplatte, Danzig/Gdansk 1939
Pawiak Prison Museum, Warsaw
Anti-Nazi monuments and memorials
Polish victims of World War II
Warsaw Uprising 1944
Anti-Communist monuments, including Katyn Forest
World War II memorials, various
Polish Government in Exile, London
Poland under Communism
Solidarity (Solidarność) monuments
Role of the Catholic Church in opposing communism
St. Brigid's Church, Gdańsk
Father Jerzy Popieluszko
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw
Polish Military Museum, Warsaw
Polish Communist government buildings, Warsaw
Changes in Poland after Communist rule
Eastern Europe, other
Albania
Czech Republic, memorial at Lidice
Romania 1979
Germany, East and West
Berlin
Berlin Wall, checkpoints
Brandenburg Gate, with Quadriga sculpture
Berlin Wall, anti-Soviet graffiti
Berlin Wall, opening of wall 1989 November
Berlin Wall, West German graffiti
Television Tower, Alexanderplatz
Neue Wache, Memorial to Victims of Fascism
Military parades and Marxist monuments 1985-1989
Statue of Friedrich the Great, Unter den Linden
East German government buildings
40th anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II (pamphlet) 1985
East German tourist brochure, Berlin 1978
West Berlin, various photographs and postcards
East Germany
Transition 1990-1993
Transition, Jena, 1988; Leipzig, 1989
Political souvenirs
Cold War history
Berlin Airlift: Postcards, postage stamps, and photographs of Tempelhof Airport
Four Power division of Berlin
Boundary wall dividing East and West Germany 1990
Soviet military forces and installations, East Germany
Reunification 1990
Postcards
Opposition graffiti
Street name changes
SED (former East German ruling party)
Historic monuments and museums
Victory Column (Siegessäule), Berlin
Monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I, Koblenz
World War I memorials
Nazi concentration camps (in and outside of Germany)
Memorials to German resistance leaders, World War II / July 20 plot, Berlin
Museum of Unconditional Surrender of Germany, Berlin-Karlshorst
Soviet War memorials
Bitburg cemetery
Exhibits of Weimar-era and anti-Nazi art
Potsdam, Schloss Cecilienhof, site of Potsdam Conference 1945
Miscellaneous
West German attitudes toward America 1980s
Bonn and its environs, including Konrad Adenauer memorials
Peace movements, West Germany 1980s
Other European
French battlefields from World War I, World War II: Photographs and postcards
Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen), Spain
Belfast, Northern Ireland: Photographs of murals and military activity
Opposition to nuclear arms, Great Britain 1984-1990
Malta, Guide to National War Museum 1994
Denmark, Museum of Denmark's Fight for Freedom 1940-1945
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Leaflet dropped by NATO planes with humanitarian supplies 1992
Karl Marx: Monuments and historic sites, Great Britain and Germany
Georgia: Stalin Museum, Gori, Georgia
Angola: Leaflet promoting Jonas Savimbi 1992
Iran: Currency following overthrow of Shah, 1979; and postage stamp honoring assassin of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat 1982
Iraq: Photocopies of leaflets used by American and coalition forces against Iraqi Army 1991, 2003
United Nations: Card with rules of conduct of U.N. Peacekeepers
United States: "The Family Fallout Shelter," Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense 1961
Sound Recordings
China Record Company catalog number XM-1030
China Record Company catalog number XM-1031
China Record Company catalog number XM-1033
China Record Company catalog number XM-1037