Approximately seven linear feet of daily staff journals, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials document the service of the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Division 'Jumping Mustangs' during the Vietnam Conflict and the issues of the association after the war. The first four boxes of the collection contain the daily staff journals from the battalion listed chronologically, 1965-1971, and are followed by the rest of the materials, which date from both the war and post-war periods.

Patches, a blue photo album, and a program from a memorial banquet on 7 August 1992 in honor of Christopher Braun documents Braun's service in the Vietnam War with the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Division.

Poem written by David Valandry titled 'To the 1/8th Cavalry.'

Letter from Glenn Sheathelm to Curtis Peoples of the Vietnam Archive discusses Sheathelm's experiences in Vietnam with the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division (Jumping Mustangs).

Poetry written by Harry Hearter documents his service in Vietnam with the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Division (Jumping Mustangs).

This collection consists of a newspaper article, 'They were Soldiers' from the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Special Section, Sunday, March 3, 2002, and a Jumping Mustang Bugle' newsletter, September 2002.

Three books and one video document Colonel Kenneth Mertel's service with the Jumping Mustangs, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Division during the Vietnam Conflict.

Less than one linear foot of military administrative documents, newsletters, and articles document Levin B. Broughton's service during the Vietnam War with the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division.

This collection consists of photocopies of newspaper articles published in Cavalair, January 10, 1968.

Less than one linear foot of ephemera collected by Dale Schermerhorn during his service in Vietnam with the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division (Jumping Mustangs).

A 1st Air Cavalry Division zippo lighter collected by Robert Bohler during his tour of duty in Vietnam and the donated to the Vietnam Archive.

Special Orders and Roster from Company A, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), 1966 and copies of the Jumping Mustang Bugle , 1999-2001 donated to the Vietnam Archive by William Hawkinberry.