Scope and Contents

Less than a quarter linear foot of informational briefs, pamphlets, newsletters, newspapers, and photographs relating to both naval supprt activity and the celebration of Tet. Items of note are the informational booklets on the customs and traditions of Tet dated January 1968 and material relating to the Vietnamese River Assault Group. The items were collected by the donor's father, Franklin C. Cowperthwaite.

Biographical / Historical

Donor's father, Franklin C. Cowperthwaite, was in the Navy. He was born in 1933 in Maine, served 20 years in the Navy, and two in Vietnam. He retired in approximately 1977 at the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and went on to sell real estate in Northern Virginia.