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Milton D. Beach Collection (2208) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 22080000000
Collection
Milton D. Beach Collection
Title
Finding Aid
Linear Feet
0.5
Pages
1
Language(s)
English
Dates
Creation: 20 November 2009
Scope and Contents
Less than a linear foot of articles, photographs, maps, newsletters, flight cards, and a cruisebook document Captain Milton D. Beach's career in the United States Navy. The collection pays particular emphasis to a fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS FORRESTAL that took the lives of 134 sailors on 27 July 1967.
1
Books
USS FORRESTAL, 1967
2
Photographs
VA056491-VA056506: photographs of Haiphong Naval Shipyard, Operation LINEBACKER 2, 20 December 1972
VA056507-VA056515: Photographs of Night Seed Mission, Song Ca River, 25 October 1972
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1
Maps
2 Maps of Haiphong
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1
Serials
Life, 11 August 1967
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  • Box 1: [Barcode: 1] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D006.4 ]]
  • Box 1
  • Folder 1
  • Various Articles about the Fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS FORRESTAL, 27 Jul 1967
  • The Hawk, Fire on the Flight Deck by Cdr M. D. Beach, USN
  • VA - 35 Family - Gram, Nov 1972
  • VA - 35 Family - Gram, Dec 1972
  • VA - 35 Family - Gram, Feb 1973
  • Attack Squadrom Thirty-Five Newsletter, July 1972
  • Attack Squadrom Thirty-Five Newsletter, Sept 1972
  • Article CVW-8, VA-35, and VF-74 Return, March 1973
  • Folder 2
  • Four different Strike Planning Briefing Guides
  • Standard Operation Procedures for Day Armed Reconnaissance, 5 July 1972
  • VA-35 Combat SOP, 3 July 1972
  • VA-35 Six Bravo SOP
  • VA-35 Weather Reconaissance Flights
  • Three Flight map overlays
  • Various of VA-35 Briefing Cards
  • Houstion Chroncicle Clipping of the Forrestal Fire
  • Article VA-35 in action, Intruders work with Pathfinders
  • Newspaper Picture of An A6 Intruder
  • Four map clipping of Vietnam
  • Folder 3
  • USS Forrestal cruise book (1967)
Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=22080000000
Citation
Milton D. Beach Collection (2208) Finding Aid, Milton D. Beach Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=22080000000, Accessed 08 Feb 2026.
Pub Credit Line
22080000000, Milton D. Beach Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
Added: 19 Nov 2009 [Updated: 14 Jan 2026]

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