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Michael Mittelmann Collection (150) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 1500000000
Collection
Michael Mittelmann Collection
Title
Michael Mittelmann Collection (150) Finding Aid
Finding Aid Date
2001-12-07
Linear Feet
5
Language(s)
English Vietnamese Chinese
Dates
Creation: Majority of material found within 1954-1969, 1973-1977, and 1982-2004
Scope and Contents
Over five linear feet of books, comic books, photographs, slides, audio, maps, posters, artifacts, periodicals, and documents detail medical conditions, field surgery, and Vietnamese culture during the early 1960s, during which time Colonel Michael Mittelmann served from March 1965 to March 1966 as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery and Chief of Professional Services in the 8th Field Hospital in Nha Trang, Vietnam. The collection documents Colonel Mittelmann's military career, as well as his postwar medical career and advocacy work. The materials include military orders; memos and correspondence; papers (including drafts); articles, and clippings; website printouts; flyers, pamphlets, booklets, and brochures; notes; reports (including clinical case reports and physical evaluation board findings); tables of organization and equipment; subject schedules; briefings; Orthopedic Detachment (KB) histories, logistics, and equipment lists; presentations (notes, transparencies); medical records; manuals; Vietnamese language instructional materials; log sheets; medical/hospital information sheets and SOPs; travel vouchers; and ephemera. Materials of particular interest are the USARV Medical Bulletins and images of wounds before and after surgery. The materials are dated predominately 1954-1969, 1973-1977, and 1982-2004.
Biographical / Historical
Colonel Mittelmann served as a physician in Vietnam. From March 1965 to March 1966 he served as Chief Orthopedic Surgery and Chief Professional Services in the 8th Field Hospital, Nha Trang. Upon returning from Vietnam, he served as an Orthopedic Surgeon and Assistant Corps Squad Physician at the United States Hospital, West Point. He received numerous medals during his tour in Vietnam, including the Bronze Star Medal, National Defense Service Medal (with Service Star), Vietnam Service Medal and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with Device 1960.
1
Oral History
OH0172 - Interview with Michael Mittelmann
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1
Audio
150AU4159 - Cassette - Land Mines and Their Injuries: A Challenge for International Rehabilitation
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1
Comic Books
150Comic1356 - Batman: Death of Innocents
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2
Posters
From the Vietnam Veterans Against the War: The Vietnam War is not something to be won or lost. It is a mistake, to be corrected. (Section 12 Drawer 17)

150poster0076 - Land Mines: Ban Them Now!
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7
Maps
Do-Thanh Saigon (Saigon Street Map)(2 copies)
Viet-Nam Hinh The-Chanh Tri (Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia/Thailand)
Cambodge-Laos-Viet Nam (Croquis Physique et Routier
150map0304 - Bangkok

150map0305 - Thai International Flight Path

150map0306 - Map of Saigon (Hotel Caravelle)
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22
Museum Objects
150museum0001: RVN Major's Clusters
150museum0002: VN Medical Corps patch
150museum0003: Patch of KB Team 46th Med. Det. In RVN 1965
150museum0004: Insignia RVN Army Medical Corps
150museum0005: Leung Choy Shun of Bud Kung Tong
150museum0006: Vietnamese medical supplies
150museum0011: 10 Dong Coin
150museum0841: Photo album with lacquer finish and artwork
150museum0842: Small wooden lacquer ware box
150museum0843: 4 lacquerware wall panels with pearl inlays
150museum0871: Small sailboat carved of wood and mounted on a flat wooden pedestal. Written on the pedestal is Souvenir Da Lat
150museum0872: Large white butterfly

150museum5940 - 8th Field Hospital badge

150museum5941 - 8th Field Hospital badge

150museum5942 - 8th Field Hospital patch

150museum5943 - 8th Field Hospital patch

150museum5944 - U.S. Army Medical Corps patch

150museum5945 - Nha Trang Support Area patch

150museum5946 - Unidentified Vietnamese medical patch

150museum5947 - Sorry Bout That patch

150museum5948 - Abolish Landmines bumper sticker

150museum5949 - Unidentified textile
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47
Serials
The AMA News: 1967: July 17;

Army Digest: 1966: August, December; 1967: January, March, April (2 copies);

The China Quarterly: 1962: January-March;

Facets: 1978: Winter;

France-Asie: 1950: Spring

Junior Scholastic (January 31, 1969)

Life: February 25;

MD Medical News Magazine: 1968: June;

Military Medicine: 1971: March;

National Geographic: 1962: November; 1967: February; 1968: April;

Newsweek: 1967: February 20;

The New York Times Magazine (October 30, 1983)

Notes et Documents: 1965: April;

The Observer: 1967: January 1;

Revue de Corps de Sante Des Forces Armee de la Republique du Vietnam France-Asie: Revue de Culture et de Synthese Franco-Asiatique

The Saturday Evening Post: 1966: June 4;

Saturday Review: 1965: September 18;

Scholastic NewsTime: 1967: October 12; 1968: May 2;

The Star: Radiating the Light of Truth on Hansen's Disease: 1965: July-August;

Time [Asia Edition]: 1965: July 16, October 22; 1966: January 7, February 18, April 22, May 27, June 17; 1967: May 5; 1968: February 9; 1969: September 12; 1972: April 17;

Time: 1985: April 15;

U.S. Medicine: 1966: December;

U.S. News & World Report: 1998: March 16;

The Vietnam Military Medical Journal: 1965: n. 15

Vietnam Today [Published by The Saigon Post]: 1966

The VVA Veteran: 1995: December

World Week: A Scholastic Magazine: 1969: December 1;
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49
Books
Buttinger, Joseph, The Smaller Dragon
Byerly, Jr., Wesley Grimes, Nam Doc
Cronkite, Walter, Eye on the World
Edelman, Bernard, Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam
Fall, Bernard, Hell in a Very Small Place
Fall, Bernard, The Two Viet-Nams
Fall, Bernard, Viet-Nam Witness, 1953-1966
Hasselblad, Marva, Lucky-Lucky
Highlights in the history of the Army Nurse Corps
Hsieh, Tehyi, Selected Pearls of Wisdom
International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy
Kammholz, Larry P., Moc Hoa: A Vietnam Medical-Military Adventure
NATO Handbook, Emergency War Surgery
Neel, Major General Spurgeon, Medical Support of the U.S. Army in Vietnam 1965-1970
Nguyen Phut Tan, A Modern History of Vietnam
Questions and Answers - Viet-Nam: The Struggle For Freedom
Saigon Medical School: An Experiment in International Medical Education
Salisbury, Harrison, Behind the Lines - Hanoi
Sheehan, Neil, The Arnheiter Affairs
Small Unit Action in Vietnam, Summer 1966
Vietnamese Legends (2 copies)
Les Grandes Chasses En Indochine
Nam et Le Petit Poisson
Viet-Nam a hier et a aujourd'hui
Nguyen-Du, 'Kim Van Kieu"
Album de Timbres Poste
Foreign Language Dictionaries:
L'Anglais aux Debutants
Van Quoc Ngu Thuc-hanh (3 copies)
Phap-Viet Tu Dien
Anh-Viet
Anh-Van Thuc-hanh
Viet-Anh
Manuals:
Country Study - Republic of Vietnam
FM 8-16 Department of the Army Field Manual: Medical Service, Field Army (June 1965)
Telephone Directory of U.S. Government Agencies in Vietnam
TM 8-230 Medical and Surgical Technicians (August 1950)
Reference:
Faces of Anguish (Vietnam)
Military Medicine: An Historical Perspective Exhibit, October 1988-January 1989
The Evidence at Vung Ro Bay
The National Economy and The Vietnam War (Committee For Economic Development)
Army 1966 Green Book
Insight Guide: Vietnam edited by Scott Rutherford, 2003

Leclerc et L'Indochine by Les Musees de la Ville de Paris, 1997

L'Art Vietnamien by Louis Bezacier, 1955

Surgery in Leprosy / Chirurgie de la Lepre by A. Carayon, P. Bourrel, and J. Languillon with the collaboration of M. Touze, 1964

Thailand in Pictures by James Nach, 1964
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Photographs
VA006653:VA006660
VA026118:VA026121
VAVA030708:VA030711 (17 photographs)

52 photographs - Colonel Michael MIttelmann and colleagues; 8th Field Hospital at Nha Trang (visit by General Westmoreland and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara); local civilians (including children); medical operations; province hospitals (construction); leprosarium; religious leaders; temples; parties; soldiers' quarters; traveling in C-123; 3rd Field Hospital; markets; Saigon Zoo; street scenes (Saigon); ARVN surgeons; orphanage; b&w, color; 3.5 x 5.5 inches, 2.75 x 3.5 inches

69 b&w negatives

5 photographs, 5 b&w negatives - sugar cane crusher; b&w; 4 x 6 inches

62 photographs - 8th Field Hospital (visit by Ambassador Taylor, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Westmoreland, making rounds with General Waters); Vung Tau; Colonel Michael Mittelmann with American and Vietnamese colleagues; Long Van Air Base during mortar attack; local civilians (including children); religious leaders; medical examinations; street scenes; soldiers' quarters; medical staff (doctors, nurses); soldiers receiving Purple Heart; amputees; ARVN doctors; Ann-Margret; b&w, color; various sizes
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1845
Slides
Clinical cases; 8th Field Hospital and other medical facilities in Nha Trang; USAF Hospital at Clark AFB, Philippines; St. Vincent's orphanage; flowers; Pasteur Institute at Nha Trang; Cham Statuary and artifacts; case reviews of land mine foot injuries; Nguyen Du / Kim Van Kieu exhibit in Saigon; hospital facilities and other Saigon scenes; Cam Ranh Bay; Hello Dolly performance at Nha Trang; leprosarium at Nha Trang and selected case reviews; Nha Trang and surrounding area (Khanh Hoa Provincial Hospital, 8th Field Hospital, B-57 bomber crash)
VAS010367:VAS010580
VAS010613-VAS011009
VAS011776-VAS012813 (1,647 slides)

198 slides - R&R in Bangkok and Hong Kong; 8th Field Hospital at Nha Trang (arrival of patients); local civilians (including children); orphanage; province hospitals; leprosarium; beaches; street scenes; aerial views; Colonel Michael Mittelmann and colleagues; helicopters and other aircraft; NCO academy; unit mascot; ARVN hospitals; x-rays; medical operations; ships; mortar attack; Clark AFB hospital (Philippines)
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  • Box 1 [TTU - Math Building, 3rd Floor, Stacks, M3.084.6 [M3.084.6]]
  • Box 2 [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D175.7]]
  • 3: [Barcode: 3] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D053.2]]
  • Box 4 [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D175.7]]
  • Box 1
  • Folder 1
  • Leprosy, Part I
  • Folder 2
  • Leprosy, Part II
  • Folder 3
  • United States General Accounting Office: Report to Congressional Committees, U.S. Vietnam Relations, Issues and Implications, April 1995
  • Folder 4
  • Various magazine articles. Most are from medical journals and others are from Time, Newsweek, various military publications, The New Yorker...
  • Folder 5
  • Book Reviews
  • Folder 6
  • Restaurant Menus
  • Folder 7
  • Anti-War Movement - Anti-War Movement
  • Folder 8
  • General Correspondence, 1984, 1991
  • Folder 9
  • Correspondence, Colonel George Omer
  • Folder 10
  • Correspondence and General Information, Major Russel W. Van Norman
  • Folder 11
  • Correspondence and General Information, Spencer Walton
  • Folder 12
  • Monographs: - Monographs:
  • Military Medicine - Preliminary Program 74th Annual Meeting, October 1967
  • Tony Zidek, Choi Oi! - "The Lighter Side of Vietnam"
  • The Weekly News Magazine, Life in Vietnam, July 17, 1965
  • Folder 13
  • Monographs:
  • Viet-Nam: Four Steps to Peace, Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense
  • 200 Years of Military Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Department
  • Dalat: An Ideal Vacationland of Vietnam
  • Saigon Roundup, The Weekly Digest and Advertising Magazine, July 16, 1965
  • La Semaine a Saigon (Seven Days in Saigon), number 346, 348, 353, 358, July-October 1965
  • Folder 14
  • USARV Medical Bulletin, 1966-1967
  • Folder 15
  • Le Service De Sante Militaire Francais En Indochine
  • Folder 16
  • General History and Culture of Vietnam
  • Folder 17
  • United States Department of State Special Report and Current Bulletins, 1985
  • Folder 18
  • "One Day in June"
  • Folder 19
  • DA PAM 360-214 Troop Topics, "Our Mission in Vietnam," October 1964
  • Folder 20
  • War Time Medical Issues
  • Folder 21
  • Post War Medical Issues
  • Folder 22
  • Buddhism
  • Folder 23
  • Armed Forces Standard Procedures, Regulations, August 1965-January 1966
  • Folder 24
  • An Introductory Note of 12th Air Force Base With Its Mission and History
  • Folder 25
  • Time-Life Book Information on The Vietnam Experience
  • Folder 26
  • Tet 1966 General Information
  • Folder 27
  • Map of South Vietnam with troop disposition and organization chart of COMUSMACV
  • Folder 28
  • Newspaper Clippings: Saigon Daily News for August 14, 1965 and February 18, 1966
  • Folder 29
  • Newspaper Clippings: The Saigon Post for November 29, 1965 and January 18, 1966
  • Folder 30
  • Newspaper Clippings, 1965
  • Folder 31
  • Newspaper Clippings, 1966
  • Folder 32
  • Newspaper Clippings, 1968-1994
  • Folder 33
  • Monographs in French: Les Poissons D'Importance Commerciale au Viet Nam, 1964 (2 copies)
  • Folder 34
  • Monographs in French:
  • Le Poisson Dans L'Alimentation de Vietnamien
  • La Peche Aux Crevettes au Centre Viet Nam
  • Folder 35
  • Monographs in French:
  • Bulletin de al Societe des Etudes Indochinoises, 195\64
  • La Science au Viet-Nam, 1963
  • Folder 36
  • Description of slides VAS010367-010690
  • Lecture/Conference Training Outline: Landmine injuries of the foot.
  • Landmine Injuries of the Foot- Their Clinical and X-Ray Findings by Michael Mittelmann COL USAR
  • Description of slides VAS010613-011009
  • Nha Trang: Nguyen Du/ Kim-Van-Kieu , etc. Hospital Facilities & Saigon scenes: CRB, Hello Dolly . Leprosarium, Nha Trang and selected case reviews. Nha Trang & environs: Khanh Hoa Provincial Hospital. Nha Trang & environs: 8th FH: B-57 Bomber Crash.
  • Folder 37
  • Correspondence
  • Folder 38
  • ARVN Medical Newsletters
  • Folder 39
  • Photocopies of newspaper clippings
  • Folder 40
  • Introductory and Descriptive Pages from Notebooks I, II, and III (Sugar Cane Crusher Injuries of the Hand in Vietnam): Clinical Cases 35mm Slide Collection.
  • Correspondence
  • Box 2
  • Folder 1
  • 3.5 inch floppy disc containing the material of Notebook IV
  • Cover sheets and Documents list of items to be found in Notebook IV B. Some items can be located in the Oversized box in the Mittelmann Collection.
  • Folder 2
  • National Geographic (September 1964) article: Slow Train Through Vietnam's Warby Howard Sochurek.
  • Article: Bhuddism Today by Gerald Delilkhan
  • Article: An Orthopedic Professional Service Team Medical Detatchment (KB) by Michael Mittelmann
  • Table 2 from Backache in Vietnam
  • From the New York Times: West Point Class of '66 Eager to Fight
  • Brief biography of General Wesley K. Clark US Army (Retired) printed from the Internet
  • Graduation Exercises 1966, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
  • Folder 3
  • Information regarding Lynda Bird Johnson
  • Letter from Mittelmann to Dr. Haydee Kimmich
  • Response to Mittellmann from Dr. Kimmich
  • Report of tour of duty in Vietnam from June 15, 1967 to August 18, 1967. by Dr. Haydee J. Kimmich, Orthopedic Surgeon.
  • From AMA News, Volume 11 Number 4 (January 29, 1968): Our Readers Express Themselves
  • From AMA News, Volume 11 Number 8 (February 26, 1968): Outposts in Vietnam
  • Article (printed from the Internet) regarging Dr. Haydee Kimmich
  • Article (photocopy) from the New York Times (September 10, 1967): Amputees in Vietnam bu Howard Rusk M.D.
  • Article (photocopy): Vietnam Health Care by Howard Rusk M.D.
  • Article (photocopy): Aid to South Vietnamby Howard Rusk M.D.
  • Folder 4
  • Article from Military Medicine, Number 10 Volume 132 (October 1967): Results of Vietnamese Acupuncture Seen at the Second Surgical Hospital by Major Norman M. Rich and Lt. Col. Francis C. Dimond
  • Article from Military Medicine, Number 11 Volume 132 (November 1967): Surgical Research in Vietnam by Col. Robert M. Hardaway, III.
  • Article: The Role of a US Military Physician in the Vietnamese Medicolegal Field by Lt. Col. Frank W. Kiel
  • Article: Civilian Medical Care in SOuth Vietnam by Captain Daniel B. White
  • Article: Wounding Agents in Vietnam by Cdr. Frederick E. Jackson
  • Folder 5
  • Military Medicine Volume 133 Number 1 (January 1968)
  • Folder 6
  • Article by Don Luce: Vietnam: Life in a Sad Land (June 1, 1968)
  • Article: Surgeon Opens Office in City
  • From the Hartford Times (June 8, 1969): Plantation Gets Battle Brunt
  • From MD Medical Newsmagazine, Volume 14 Number 2 (February 1970): Vietnam Casualties
  • From MD Medical Newsmagazine (August 1970): Lotus Power
  • Three Interviews on Vietnam: (1) Interview of Xuan Thuy by Richard Falk (October 30, 1970); (2) Interview of Madame Binh by Richard Falk (November 1, 1970); (3) Interview of President Thieu by Austin Hoyt (November 12, 1970)
  • Letters to the Editor of JAMA (January 11, 1971) regarding Surgery in Vietnam
  • From JAMA (February 1, 1971) Anesthesia Experiences at a Plastic Surgery Center in Vietnam by Joseph F. Patterson MD, and M. Kathleen Belton MD.
  • Article from Medical Digest (May 1971): Scrub Typhus from Vietnam: Experiences at the 8th Field Hospital
  • Article (October 20, 1971): End to Vietnam Drug Abuse Foreseen
  • Brief biography of Floyd Harold Kushner
  • Photcopied photograph of Dr. Paul Grauwin in Cambodian clinic
  • Letter from Mittelmann to Dr. Robert A. Quint
  • Map of Vietnam from the Hartford Courant (April 2, 1975)
  • Folder 7
  • Diabled USA, Volume 4 Number 6, 1981
  • Selected Readings on Mobilization Planning
  • The Army Historian Number 2, Winter 1984
  • Folder 8
  • Book Review for "Moc Hoa: A Vietnam Military Medical Adventure," Military Medicine, Vol. 156, September 1991, page A16
  • "Heroines of Healing," Army Reserve Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 4, Winter 1993-1994, pp. 10-12 (reference made to 8th Field Hospital in Nha Trang)
  • "An Orthopedic Professional Service Team Medical Detachment (KB)" by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Mittelmann, USA, from Military Medicine, Vol. 133, No. 1, January 1968
  • Folder 9
  • Field Manual 8-16: Medical Service, Field Army. Published by Headquarters, Department of the Army (June 1965)
  • Folder 10
  • Clinical Case Reports (1965-1966, 2022)
  • Folder 11
  • Unpublished case report: [name redacted], 14 year old Vietnamese male, deceased (Nha Trang Provincial Hospital) (1964-1966)
  • Folder 12
  • Sugar Cane Crusher Injuries of the Hand (1967-1968, 1998, No Date)
  • Folder 13
  • Sugar Cane Crusher Injuries of the Hand (1967-1968, 1998)
  • Folder 14
  • KB Team Orthopedic Detachment - articles/clippings, correspondence, presentation notes, Table of Organization and Equipment 8-500C (1956, 1962-1969, 1984)
  • Folder 15
  • Miss Tien Thu Yen (Lee) and Miss Ho Thi Kim Sa (Kim Sa) - clippings, correspondence (1965-1966, 1971-1975, 1991-1998, 2022)
  • Folder 16
  • R&R in Bangkok and Hong Kong - correspondence, pamphlets, notes, clippings (1965-1968, 2022)
  • Folder 17
  • Correspondence, articles/clippings, medical reports (1964-1978, 1992, 2000-2001)
  • Folder 18
  • Correspondence, articles/clippings, military orders (1960-1966)
  • Folder 19
  • Notes, booklets, clippings (1964-1965, 2001, No Date)
  • Folder 20
  • Clippings, correspondence, ephemera (1965, No Date)
  • Folder 21
  • ID card, notes, clippings, correspondence, flyers/pamphlets (1965, 1994-2001)
  • Folder 22
  • The Danger of Explosives (presentation transparencies) (ca. 1992)
  • Folder 23
  • Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation / U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (1995-1997)
  • Folder 24
  • Landmine Resources (1966, 1984-2004, 2022)
  • Folder 25
  • Landmine Resources (1967, 1984-2002, 2019-2022)
  • Box 3
  • Oversize
  • Folder 1
  • The Hartford (CT) Courant from January 28, 1973
  • From AMA News (September 26, 1966): Mekong River Houseboats to become Medical Clinics
  • Service Stripe, a Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC publication (December 9, 1966).
  • New York Times Book Review: The Vietnam Story by John Mecklin
  • US Medicine: The Newspaper for Federal Physicians, Volume 3 Number 14 (July 15, 1967)
  • New York Times (August 13, 1967)
  • Poster: Join the Army...
  • Excerpt from the AMA News (November 20, 1967): MD Recalls Magic Moments in Vietnam
  • New York Times article (September 10, 1967): Amputees in Vietnam
  • New York Times article (December 31, 1967): Vietnam Health Care
  • Article: Aid to South Vietnam
  • New York Times, the Week in Review (November 19, 1967)
  • From the New York Times Magazine (April 7, 1968): The Lengthening Shadow of the NLF by A.J. Langguth
  • Article: MD at Paris Talks Tells of Work Under Fire and Training Methods
  • Exceprt from the New York Times Magazine (July 5, 1970): West Point Cadets Now Say Why, Sir? by Thomas Fleming
  • Excerpt from American Medical News (February 8, 1971): Dr. Smith's Special War
  • American Medical News (April 23, 1973)
  • The New York Times (April 3, 1975)
  • From the Hartfor (CT) Courant (April 1, 1975)
  • The New York Times (April 6, 1975)
  • The New York Times Week in Review (April 6, 1975)
  • The Hartford (CT) Courant (April 30, 1975)
  • Republic of Vietnam Calendar (1966)
  • Medical Chart: Back Review Section #1
  • Medical Chart: Back Review Section #2
  • Folder 2
  • Clippings (1965-1967, 1988-2002)
  • Box 4
  • Folder 1
  • Report and manuals re: landmines (1963-1996)
  • Folder 2
  • The Vietnam Experience, notes for classroom discussion - History Department, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Friday April 10, 1998 (1947, 1965-1973, 1982-1998, 2022)
  • Folder 3
  • Vietnamese stamps (No Date)
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Citation
Michael Mittelmann Collection (150) Finding Aid, Michael Mittelmann Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=1500000000, Accessed 08 May 2026.
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