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This subcategory contains 55 links Vietnam Red Devils "Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr., was a soldier, scholar, military analyst, writer, editor and friend." A book by Dr. John Guilmartin by Mark Barringer Military Reading List recommends books on the Vietnam War. Links to other wars as well. "The Center for Electronic Records, National Archives, reproduces and distributes copies of the Combat Area Casualties Current File (1957-1989). This file contains records with final data on U.S. military personnel who died as a result of hostilities (killed in action, died from wounds, died while missing, or died while captured) or other causes (died from injury or illness, nonhostile; died from other non-hostile causes; died while missing, non-hostile) in Cambodia, Communist China, Laos, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, or Thailand during the conflict in Southeast Asia." "The Combat Tracker Teams of the Viet Nam War, were small, highly-trained units usually consisting of four men and a Labrador Retriever. They were a composite group and cross-trained, enabling all members to complete the mission." Interview: Flavie Hugh Ellison II; Interviewer: Betty Dotson Lewis; Date: March 13, 2002 10:30 am "This site offers much reading and research on Vietnam during its war years, as well as history on its development as a nation. You can read how its army was developed and how it fought. It includes unit history of Marines, Army, Navy and Air Force units that participated in the Vietnam War. A section is devoted to the Tet Offensive of 1968, one of the most misunderstood battles of the war." Written by Eisenhower in 1954 and Kennedy in 1961. Douglas A-4 Skyhawks provided vital close air support for ground forces in Vietnam. Role of these helicopter in the Vietnam War. Vietnam vets's electronic newsletter. Rare copy. rare copy of electronic newsletter. Rare copy of an electronic Vietnam veterans newsletter. TedTV a Houston based video production company is working on it's next documentary entitled, "Soul Alley," which focuses on the life of AWOL vets during the Vietnam War who lived on Soul Alley and Plantation Rd in Saigon near the Tan Son Nhut airbase. Please visit the Soul Alley club site to enter information that may help in the research of this documentary. Associated Press story. by Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr. in the magazine Vietnam. By Herbert Lepore. Presented to the Mid-America Conference on History, 17-19 September 1992, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. "While the military is responsible for fighting a war, its civilian superiors not only wage war but also determine how it will be fought." By Colonel William Wilson, U.S. Army (ret.). "The infamous Pentagon Papers give insights into the Johnson administration's thinking on the Vietnam War." Dedicated to the people who flew military helicopters in the Vietnam War. Lydia Fish's excellent site. "To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library reviewed for possible declassification nearly 40,000 pages of National Security Adviser files. This exhibit illustrates the wealth of material now available for research." "Since March, 1997, the Virtual Wall has honored the 58,220 men and women named on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Each name or photo on our index pages links to a personal memorial, either on this site or on personal web sites elsewhere." Primary documents and analyses "Two months after withstanding the most ferocious siege of the Vietnam War, Khe Sanh was abandoned to the enemy." Book from eHidtory By E. Kenneth Hoffman. Photos of Children, Montagnard Tribesmen, Military, Vietnamese People, Protest, et cetera, Shrines From Everton Publishers. Searchable database. The mission of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University is to support and encourage research and education regarding all aspects of the American Vietnam experience; promoting a greater understanding of this experience and the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia. Its functions are threefold: collection and preservation of pertinent source material; education through exhibits, classroom instruction, educational programs, and publications; and encouragement of scholarly research through exchanges, publishing of noteworthy research, symposia, and financial support. How should we remember a war that we "lost"? You may have been tear-choked as you touched or watched others touch "the Wall" at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the most visited war memorial in our nation's capital. Yet, this seemingly god-given shrine wears political feet of clay, and behind it lies a fierce controversy that re-opened the wounds of the war the memorial was designed to heal. Experience the evolution of the Vietnam Wall controversy by reading through a chronological list of documents divided into five rounds: Extensive bibliography by Edwin E. Moïse. "Providing information and documents about the various Indochina Wars and to the collection and electronic publication on the web of oral histories and memoirs of both those who served in and those who opposed those conflicts." A variety of information and services. "Visiting Montagnard villages for evidence of the bubonic plague, a civilian entomologist gained insights into both their culture and his own." Listserv for Vietnam Vets Essay about songs by Lydia Fish. A brief memoir. "When it came to Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines, President Lyndon Johnson's quest for "More Flags" came at an exorbitant price." "Data Processing Goes to War with IBM's Bachelor Computer Experts." "Wounded four times in Vietnam and now a chronicler of that war, Jim Morris is still proud of his service there." At a conference "nationally recognized writers of fiction, memoir, poetry, journalism, and biography read from and discussed their works based on their experiences in the Vietnam War." "The SEAL platoon wanted revenge for a wounded comrade. What they almost got was their own annihilation." |
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