Existence: Majority of material found within No Date

General Note: Company A, 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry based at Bien Hoa.

From the Bryan Grigsby Collection, Item# 10480115001 - Personal Narrative - Goodbye Dong Tam: The Troops Begin to Leave:
"While I was covering the withdrawal ceremony on board the USS Benewah I carried with me a sense of deja vu. While photographing at the US Mortuary Facility-Personal
Property Depot at Tan Son Nhut Airbase a week or so prior, I had saved from a trash can a diary belonging to a soldier who had lived on board the Benewah as part of a 9th Division infantry unit. Reading that diary had given me a true sense of what it was like to live and fight in that part of South Vietnam. To be standing on the deck of that same ship put a chill through me that is hard to describe. I had hoped to someday figure out who that diary actually belonged to and return it to his family. Unfortunately there was not enough infonnation in the diary to do this."

[This is a typed transcript of that diary.] The original is in a special collections library at La Salle University in Philadelphia."

Citation: Unknown Soldier's Diary, 4 January to 28 April 1969 - Collected from trash can by Bryan Grigsby in Vietnam [transcript], 10480108005. No Date, Box 01, Folder 08, Bryan Grigsby Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=10480108005, Accessed 11 Apr 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 10480108005, Bryan Grigsby Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive