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188th Flag 4/7/98
Moving Image Item Number: 069VI2534
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188th Flag 4/7/98
Item Creation Date: 07 April 1998
Collection: Richard (Dick) Detra Collection
Association: 188th Assault Helicopter Company Association
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Added: 27 Jul 2008 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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A Soldier returns: Schwarzkopf in Vietnam
Moving Image Item Number: 069VI2535
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A Soldier returns: Schwarzkopf in Vietnam
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Collection: Richard (Dick) Detra Collection
Association: 188th Assault Helicopter Company Association
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Added: 29 Jul 2008 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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History of Vietnam Volumes 1 & 2
Moving Image Item Number: 069VI2538
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2 Videocassettes titled: History of Vietnam Volumes 1 & 2
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Collection: Richard (Dick) Detra Collection
Association: 188th Assault Helicopter Company Association
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Added: 30 Jul 2008 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Pipe Smoke 67/68
Moving Image Item Number: 069VI2531
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Video titled: Pipe Smoke Recovery 67/68 Black Widow base camp and aircraft are on this Pipe Smoke Recovery Video
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Collection: Richard (Dick) Detra Collection
Association: 188th Assault Helicopter Company Association
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Added: 27 Jul 2008 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Flight Line: the Army Helicopter Pilots of Vietnam
Moving Image Item Number: 069VI2533
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Flight Line: the Army Helicopter Pilots of Vietnam
Item Creation Date: 2000
Collection: Richard (Dick) Detra Collection
Association: 188th Assault Helicopter Company Association
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Added: 27 Jul 2008 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Taxis of Conflict: The Helicopter War Vols 1 & 2
Moving Image Item Number: 069VI2536
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Volume 1: The Story of Airmobile warfare and the Battle of Ia drang Valley Volume 2: The Story of Airmobile Warfare in the Iron Triangle
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Richard (Dick) Detra Collection
Association: 188th Assault Helicopter Company Association
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Added: 29 Jul 2008 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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The Vietnam War with Walter Cronkite
Moving Image Item Number: 069VI2537
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The Vietnam War with Walter Cronkite series. There are 14 tapes in this series.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Richard (Dick) Detra Collection
Association: 188th Assault Helicopter Company Association
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Added: 30 Jul 2008 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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LZ Sally 1968, Company Area and Guns, Vernon Peake
Moving Image Item Number: 069VI2532
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From the cover: LZ Sally 1968 5 Minutes Company Area and Guns Vernon Peake 188th AHC

00:15 copyright statement
00:21 VCR tracking statement - Video Transfer Center advertisement - video transfer center intro ;
1:14 Vietnam footage begins, landscape, skyscape - military personnel on military vehicle ;
1:51 shirtless soldiers standing outside of tents ;
1:58 two helicopters (Hueys) takeoff ;
2:14 black soldier smiling at camera - soldiers walking around tents - soldier leaning against door ;
2:31 soldiers attempting to unload large piece of scrap metal from Huey - soldiers walking around base ;
2:48 helicopter takeoff - soldiers riding military vehicle on base - soldiers walking around base ;
2:56 soldier waving to camera - soldiers in military vehicle pose for camera before dismounting ;
3:12 landscape - Vietnamese village - landscape footage of base - helicopter ;
3:30 helicopter sling load ;
3:35 soldiers on base - soldier riding in vehicle away from base - Helicopters (Hueys) in flight ;
4:18 Vietnam footage ends - Qualex Video Transfer service statement ;
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Richard (Dick) Detra Collection
Association: 188th Assault Helicopter Company Association
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Added: 27 Jul 2008 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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Video History of the 188th AHC, Vietnam, 1967-1968
Moving Image Item Number: 069VI2350
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VHS Documentary of the 188th Assault Helicopter Company Black Widows and Spiders. Produced by 2nd Platoon/Spiders door gunner Dick Detra and Black Widow 6, LTC Jack O. Johnson, who also narrates the film. The Black Widow Theme Song and Chopper Gunner were sung at LZ Sally in June 1968 by 1st Platoon door gunner John Nordenstrom. The 188th served in Vietnam from late April 1967 to July 1, 1968. Stationed for eight months at Dau Tieng/Camp Rainier in the Western III Corps' Michelin Rubber Plantation forty miles northwest of Saigon, and four months at LZ Sally in the Northern I Corps area of operations seven miles north of Hue. The Black Widows flew missions in all four corps areas of operation and across the fence into Cambodia and Laos in support of the 5th Special Forces, CCN and SOG. During combat operations in Vietnam, the 'Spider People' of the 188th had a casualty rate of thirty percent.
Item Creation Date: January 2001
Collection: Richard (Dick) Detra Collection
Association: 188th Assault Helicopter Company Association
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Added: 10 Dec 2006 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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