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James F. Fitzpatrick Collection (3296) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 32960000000
Collection
James F. Fitzpatrick Collection
Title
James F. Fitzpatrick Collection (3296) Finding Aid
Finding Aid Date
2022-04-26
Linear Feet
19
Language(s)
English
Dates
Creation: 1966 - 1969
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of approximately 19 linear feet of materials documenting Specialist James Fitzpatrick's U.S. Army service as a combat photographer with the 69th Signal Battalion (based at Camp Gaylor, Tan Son Nhut Air Base) from 1967-1969. The materials include photographs; slides; an ID card; photo albums; articles and clippings; personal recollections; artifacts; award citations; certificates and diplomas; captured Viet Cong documents (notes, diagrams/schematics); military orders; memos and correspondence; essays and writings; moving images; and booklets. Also included are correspondence and accompanying enclosures sent and received by Specialist Fitzpatrick during his time in Vietnam, as well as notebooks containing various writings by Specialist Fitzpatrick while in Vietnam including spiritual and philosophical writings, essays, poems, theology course notes, short stories, and verses.
Biographical / Historical
Specialist James F. Fitzpatrick was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1948. He volunteered for the U.S. Army in 1966. He served for two years as a combat photographer - first with the Photo Section of the 69th Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade (1967-1968 ; Camp Gaylor, Tan Son Nhut AB, Saigon) and then with the 221st Signal Company (Long Binh), 160th Signal Group, USARPAC. He was involved in several operations: OP Cedar Falls, OP Junction City I and II, OP Big Springs, OP Francis Marion, OP Reno, OP Akron, OP Hood River, OP Cook, OP Ainslie, OP Diamondhead, and OP Kole Kole, as well as the 1968 Tet Offensive in Saigon, Cholon, and Tan Son Nhut. He received numerous awards including the Good Conduct Medal and the Bronze Star. He was honorably discharged from active duty in 1969 but continued to serve in the U.S. Army Reserve until 1972.

After his military service, Fitzpatrick attended Glen Fishback School of Photography in Sacramento, CA along with fellow combat photographer C.K. Pollard, Jr. After spending a couple of years in monastic life, he worked a wide range of jobs including art gallery proprietor, newspaper humor columnist, and documentary producer. In 1975, he married his first wife and had a son. In 2004, he married his second wife and moved from California back to Pennsylvania.
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Scrapbooks
3296scrapbook1661 - Vietnam portfolio
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1
Electronic Media
3296EM1404 - USB - Correspondence and Other Documents
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1
Newspapers
Pacific Stars and Stripes: 1967: February 25
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4
Newsletters
Johnsville Reflector: 1967: February

III Corps Advisor: 1968: November 1, November 15, December 1
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13
Moving Images
3296VI4068 - 16mm - After Battle Rebuilding - Cholon

3296VI4069 - 16mm - Saigon Port (Newport) Operations

3296VI4070 - 16mm - Saigon Port (Newport) Operations

3296VI4071 - 16mm - After Battle Scene - Cholon Area Street Scenes

3296VI4072 - 16mm - After Battle Scene - Cholon Area Street Scenes

3296VI4073 - 16mm - Saigon River Scenes

3296VI4074 - 16mm - Heliport Operations - Tan Son Nhut

3296VI4075 - 16mm - Unidentified

3296VI4076 - 16mm - 173rd Bien Hoa

3296VI4077 - 16mm - Operations of the 25th Infantry Division, Cu Chi and Area

3296VI4078 - 16mm - Operation Junction City, Malone

3296VI4079 - 16mm - Operation Junction City, Malone (wounded)

3296VI4080 - 16mm - Malone
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Museum Objects
3296museum5721 - Bronze Star with ribbon bar and lapel

3296museum5722 - Ribbon Bar - Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal

3296museum5723 - Dog tags

3296museum5724 - Military payment certificate - 5 Cents

3296museum5725 - Military payment certificate - 10 Cents

3296museum5726 - Military payment certificate - 10 Cents

3296museum5727 - 5 Dong bill

3296museum5728 - 20 Dong bill

3296museum5729 - 100 Dong bill

3296museum5730 - Blanket

3296museum5731 - Viet Cong gas mask

3296museum5732 - ARVN Ranger beret

3296museum5733 - Viet Cong flag

3296museum5734 - Black pajama pants

3296museum5735 - U.S. Army cap

3296museum5736 - Ladle

3296museum5737 - Sickle

3296museum5738 - Helmet cover

3296museum5739 - Backpack

3296museum5740 - Sandals

3296museum5741 - Rope

3296museum5742 - U.S. Army dress uniform

3296museum5743 - Garrison cap

3296museum5744 - Leisure suit shirt

3296museum5745 - Jungle fatigue shirt

3296museum5746 - ARVN Ranger jacket

3296museum5747 - Asahi Pentax Spotmatic camera (50mm lens)

3296museum5748 - Asahi Pentax Spotmatic camera (35mm lens)

3296museum5749 - Nikonos underwater camera with case

3296museum5750 - Super Takumar lens (200mm) with case

3296museum5751 - Super Takumar lens (105mm) with case

3296museum5752 - Takumar lens (28mm) with case

3296museum5753 - Takumar 35mm lens case with body cap

3296museum5754 - Takumar 28mm lens hood

3296museum5755 - Takumar 50/55mm lens hood

3296museum5756 - Super Takumar 35mm lens hood

3296museum5757 - Pentax screw body cap

3296museum5758 - Black pajama pants
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1316
Slides
20 slides - rocket; soldiers (reading, resting, in the jungle); Operation Big Spring; Cu Chi; Cambodian border; helicopters; smoke signals; Operation Junction City; armored personnel carriers; memorial chapel; artillery

1262 slides - coastal bunkers; Nha Trang; helicopters and other aircraft (Chinook, Huey, CH-47, F-4 Phantom, C-130, C-141, C-19, C-123); Danang; Saigon (zoo, cemetery, social club, Presidential Palace, National Assembly); Saigon River; Saigon University; James Fitzpatrick and fellow combat photographers of the 69th Signal Battalion (with photographic equipment, playing basketball, swimming, in the field); Photo Section, Camp Gaylor, Tan Son Nhut; Vietnamese firefighters; vendors; markets; Cholon (street fighting, sweeps); Viet Cong/NVA POWs; airstrikes; Operation Cook (near Chu Lai); Tet Offensive; 101st Airborne (carrying C-rations, cleaning M-16, writing letters); coastlines; South China Sea; supplies; hootches; Black Virgin Mountain; churches; Long Son Pagoda; local civilians (including children); Dalat; Montagnards; construction (bridges); Long Binh; barracks; Pr'Line Mountain; signal equipment; 1st Infantry Division; beaches; Christmas; aerial views; ARVN; orphanage; street scenes; artillery (Howitzer); monks; Martha Raye; MACV compound; Ellsworth Bunker; George Jessel; war damage; ARVN soldiers and compound; Vung Tau; Cardinal Cooke; Billy Graham; captured weapons and documents; Thu Duc; Qui Nhon; Vinh Long; Cam Ranh Bay; ports; residences; Can Tho; Bien Hoa; statues; wildlife; pilots; fires; smoke; airstrikes; artillery strikes; 25th Infantry Division; churches; Cu Chi; Nelson Benton (CBS); Operation Junction City; armored personnel carriers; convoys; III Corps; 4th Infantry Division; tanks; medics; night scenes; wounded; mortars; target practice; Lai Khe; 36th Evacuation Hospital

21 slides - Saigon; local civilians (including children); country fair (propaganda speech, magic act, reported on by Nelson Benton and CBS); Cu Chi

4 slides - helicopter cockpit; local civilians (including children); Nha Trang; beach

8 slides - family photos; altar at Polish shrine in Doylestown; fall foliage at Wissahickon Creek and Whitemarsh Memorial Park

1 slide - James Fitzpatrick at his desk at Tan Son Nhut
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2887
Photographs
123 photographs and proof sheets - Saigon; street scenes; Lai Khe (3rd Brigade 1st Infantry Division headquarters, villages, clubs, airstrip); local civilians (including children); aerial views; Tan Son Nhut Air Base (defending against enemy attack); artillery; malaria pills; camera; hanging clothing; helicopters and other aircraft (Caribou, C-123, transporting equipment); soldiers (reading, photographers, radioman, in the field, in transport, sleeping); Vietnamese soldiers; religious services; street fighting in Cholon; Operation Hood River; Operation Akron; Chieu Hoi returnees; Chieu Hoi Center (Long Khanh); captured Viet Cong; tanks; explosions; war damage; Operation Francis Marion; wounded and corpses; U.S. Embassy in Saigon; Operation Junction City II; captured Viet Cong documents; unit photos; sketches; b&w; various sizes

90 photographs - taken from captured Viet Cong film: Viet Cong (in the field, training, preparing weapons/explosives, on patrol, radiomen, crossing rivers, watching entertainment, resting); wounded and corpses; Major General Tran Van Tra; General Nguyen Chi Thanh; tanks; war damage; helicopters; captured American military vehicles; artillery; farmers and farmland; local civilians (including children); medical operations/procedures; doctors and nurses, trenches; Brigadier General Tran Do; b&w; 8 x 10 inches

11 photographs - sketches; helicopter gunner; helicopters (CH-57, in formation, transporting equipment); local civilians (including children); tanks; soldiers (in the field, cooling off in a river); night shots; Tan Son Nhut Air Base; An Khe; b&w; 11 x 14 inches

28 photographs, 11 b&w negatives, and 3 color negatives - USO performers' arrival; street fighting in Cholon; captured Viet Cong; churches; base scenes; local civilians (including children); cemetery; villages; street scenes; landscapes; b&w; 4 x 5 inches

80 photographs and proof sheets - aerial views; local civilians; landscapes; airfield; street scenes; base scenes; signal equipment; military vehicles; Dalat (USIS, Vietnamese officer quarters, residences); helicopter pilots; Tan Son Nhut Air Base; Saigon; farmland; Premier Ky boards private aircraft and Dalat Airfield; basketball game in gym; water pump; 362nd Signal Company orderly room at night; b&w; 2.5 x 3.5 inches

42 photographs - captured Viet Cong; patrolling the Iron Triangle; Operation Cedar Falls; Viet Cong suspect receiving medical attention; makeshift shelters; cleaning gas masks after Viet Cong gas attack; captured weapons; operating bulldozers; soldiers resting; filling in Viet Cong tunnels; burning sugar cane fields; interrogating Viet Cong; b&w; 5 x 7 inches

137 photographs and proof sheets - wildlife; soldiers (in the field, resting, discussing, eating, weapon maintenance); tanks; ammunition; local civilians (including children); Vietnamese soldiers; residences; civilians being transported; helicopters; helicopter gunners; captured Viet Cong; villages; street scenes; wounded and corpses; landscapes; explosions; war damage; street fighting (Cholon); captured weapons; soldiers speaking with reverend at an airfield; Christmas celebration with local children; religious service; cemetery; churches; captured Viet Cong documents; b&w; various sizes

2 photographs - captured Viet Cong documents from Cholon; b&w; 8 x 10 inches

13 photographs - church; temples; local civilians; artwork; Martha Raye; color; 8 x 10 inches

13 photographs - 69th Signal photographers (at Lai Khe, performing camera maintenance, Operation Reno, in a helicopter, at work recording, taking a break); sketches; KIA portrait; b&w; 3.5 x 5 inches, 8 x 10 inches

5 photographs and 1 color negative - group of 11 who left the 221st Signal Company at Camp Gaylor (Tan Son Nhut) to return the United States on 11 March 1968; b&w, color; 4 x 5 inches, 8 x 10 inches

53 photographs - award ceremony; religious officials; Billy Graham; arrival of USO performers; Martha Raye; Tippi Hedren; Joey Bishop; Georgie Jessel; street fighting in Cholon; captured Viet Cong; captured weapons; war damage; wounded; local civilians; sketches; b&w; 8 x 10 inches

54 photographs and proof sheets - base scenes; helicopters and other aircraft (transporting soldiers/supplies); local civilians (including children); soldiers (resting, reading, in the jungle, crossing river); street fighting in Cholon and evacuation of civilians; war damage; wounded and corpses; unit photos (MACV headquarters command group staff and component commanders, combat photographers); local children watching entertainment; Christmas Viet Cong-American prisoner exchange; Admiral Moorer with General Abrams; captured Viet Cong; tanks; villages; Operation Francis Marion; cemetery; residences; street scenes; artillery; b&w, color; 8 x 10 inches

108 photographs and proof sheets and 2 b&w negatives - soldiers (reading, photographers, in the field, cleaning equipment, radioman); Vietnamese soldiers; Operation Junction City II; Operation Hood River; local civilians (Including children); orphanage; diagrams; Billy Graham; religious officials; aerial views; Camp Gaylor (Tan Son Nhut); captured Viet Cong; Operation Francis Marion; helicopters (offloading troops, transporting equipment/troops, providing air support); helicopter gunners; tanks; street fighting in Cholon; wounded and corpses; evacuating civilians from Cholon; Operation Akron; Chieu Hoi returnee recording message; street scenes; signal tower; artillery; Christmas celebration with local children; war damage; explosions; defending Tan Son Nhut during enemy attack; fighting in Ghia Dinh section of Saigon; Operation Kolekole; b&w; various sizes

134 photographs - combat photographers; helicopters (offloading troops, transporting equipment/troops); firefighters; Operation Francis Marion; orphanage; radioman; 65th Engineer Battalion's Mine, Demolition, and Boobytrap School at Chu Chi; Operation Reno; captured Viet Cong; soldiers (writing a letter, playing with children, cooking/eating, in the field, repairing equipment, crossing a river); aerial views; local civilian boats; rivers; local civilians (including children); villages; award ceremony; Operation Hood River; tanks; evacuating civilians; Viet Cong training aids; Operation Akron; Chieu Hoi returnees at Long Khanh Chieu Hoi Center in Xuan Loc; street fighting in Cholon; landscapes; bridges; b&w; 4 x 5 inches, 5 x 7 inches, 8 x 10 inches

68 photographs - soldier portraits; helicopters (offloading troops); Operation Francis Marion; villages; Operation Ainslie; Nui Dat; local civilians (including children); combat photographers; base scenes; team who left 221st Signal Company at Camp Gaylor (Tan Son Nhut) on 11 March 1968; defending Tan Son Nhut Air Base; street fighting in Cholon; wounded; captured Viet Cong and NVA; captured weapons; news reporters; closing in a Viet Cong tunnel; Vietnamese soldiers; b&w, color; 4 x 5 inches, 5 x 7 inches, 8 x 10 inches

49 proof sheets - various urban civilian scenes; portraits; protests; Reno; beach; swimming pool; barber; lake; lumberyard; animal and plant life; churches

57 photographs - fighting in the Gia Dinh section of Saigon; street fighting in Cholon; evacuation civilians from Cholon; captured weapons; war damage; wounded and corpses; Vietnamese soldiers; soldiers (manning mortars, in the jungle); tanks; b&w; 4 x 5 inches, 8 x 10 inches

47 photographs - 40th Signal Battalion repairing cables after fighting near MACV headquarters; local civilians (including children); military vehicles; firefighters at work after attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base; street fighting; wounded and corpses; President Nguyen Van Thieu; Vietnamese soldiers; war damage; street scenes; b&w; 5 x 7 inches, 8 x 10 inches

180 photographs and proof sheets - fighting near Saigon; street fighting in Cholon; wounded and corpses; war damage; burning buildings; Operation Malhuer, Task Force Oregon; Vietnamese soldiers; fighting in Ghia Dinh area of Saigon, evacuating civilians; Operation Shenandoah II; helicopters (extracting/offloading troops, making firing runs); Operation Francis Marion; soldiers (receiving medical attention, in the field, cleaning equipment, radioman, cooling off in a river, firing mortars); tanks; armored personnel carriers; captured weapons; captured enemy documents; artillery; captured Viet Cong; interrogations; Chieu Hoi returnee broadcasting surrender message to Viet Cong in Cholon; Operation Junction City; Operation Long Phi 999 E; Operation Lam Son 337; explosions; b&w; 8 x 10 inches

256 photographs and proof sheets - helicopters and other aircraft; local civilians (including children, receiving medical attention); religious services; aerial views (Khe Sanh); letter of appreciation; General Abrams; signal equipment; captured Viet Cong; interrogations; closing in a Viet Cong tunnel; Saigon; street scenes; Operation Bang Dong; firefighters at work after attack at Tan Son Nhut Air Base; defending Tan Son Nhut Air Base; street fighting in Cholon; war damage; armored personnel carriers; 40th Signal Battalion repairing cables after fighting near MACV headquarters; military vehicles; wounded and corpses; maps; convoys; defending Can Tho Airfield; military police inspections; U.S. Embassy in Saigon; combat photographers; radioman; Operation Junction City II; soldiers (in the field, performing maintenance on equipment; coordinating plans of attack, sweeping houses/streets); fighting in Saigon; defending the U.S. Embassy; debriefing General Westmoreland following Viet Cong attack on Embassy; ARVN soldiers; burning buildings; tanks; captured weapons; Billy Graham; captured enemy documents; b&w; 2.5 x 3.5 inches, 5 x 7 inches, 8 x 10 inches

108 photographs and proof sheets - street fighting in Cholon; captured Viet Cong; interrogations; soldiers (in the field; maintaining/cleaning weapons, on patrol, writing letters); Viet Cong tunnels and filling them in; ARVN soldiers; wounded and corpses; helicopters and other aircraft (extracting troops, making firing runs); Operation Francis Marion; war damage; fighting in the Ghia Dinh section of Saigon; evacuating civilians; tanks; captured weapons; Operation Shenandoah II; local civilians, including children (receiving medical attention); armored personnel carriers; Operation Baker (Task Force Oregon); artillery; Operation Cook; b&w; 8 x 10 inches

19 color negatives, 253 b&w negatives, 213 proof sheets, 141 photographs - captured Viet Cong; captured documents; helicopter crash; Operation Junction City II; captured weapons/supplies; Operation Francis Marion; Operation Cook; ARVN soldiers; Operation Big Spring; 69th Signal Battalion at Camp Gaylor (Tan Son Nhut); combat photographers; street fighting in Cholon; helicopters (extracting troops, carrying supplies); Operation Reno; 65th Engineer Battalion Mine, Demolition, and Boobytrap School at Cu Chi; aerial views; Operation Hood River; evacuating/questioning local civilians (including children); Operation Ainslie; Operation Diamond Head; soldiers (on patrol, resting, eating, unloading mail, reading, cleaning weapons, radioman, doing repairs, writing letters, discussing operation plans, loading helicopters, receiving medical attention, constructing bridges, sweeping houses, burning crops); Operation Akron; villagers; tanks; Long Khanh Chieu Hoi Center at Xuan Loc; Chieu Hoi returnees; Operation Kolekole; artillery; suspected Viet Cong receiving medical treatment; Saigon River; Saigon; Dau Tieng; monsoons; Operation Cedar Falls; filling in Viet Cong tunnels; Iron Triangle; interrogations; German hospital ship Heilgoland; wounded; religious services; award ceremonies; Hobo Woods; villages; armored personnel carrier; rice paddies; supplies; firefighters at work; 507th Engineer Detachment; Viet Cong gas attack; Viet Cong training aids; Tan Son Nhut Air Base; bridges; Trai Bong River; b&w; 4 x 5 inches

43 photographs - James Fitzpatrick and fellow combat photographers (portraits, typing, writing, on television, with photographic equipment, reading, sleeping, swimming); Photo Section, Camp Gaylor, Tan Son Nhut; Saigon; Operation Cedar Falls with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Iron Triangle; base scenes; Operation Big Springs with the 173rd Airborne Brigade (resupply operations at Bien Hoa helipad); helicopters; b&w; various sizes

1 b&w negative - Fitzpatrick examining work at Photo Section

13 photographs - Fitzpatrick and fellow combat photographers; Ft. Gordon, GA; field training at Ft. Dix, NJ; Ft. Monmouth, NJ; unit photos; Dalat; street fighting in Cholon; Camp Gaylor, Tan Son Nhut; field assignments (with 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat); b&w; 4 x 5 inches, 8 x 10 inches

71 b&w and color negative strips - 25th Infantry Division; Cu Chi; 173rd Airborne Brigade near Pleiku; 11th Cavalry; local civilians; Saigon; cemetery; plantation; Photo Section, Camp Gaylor, Tan Son Nhut Airbase; heliport; aircraft; Dalat; aerial views; Christmas; Cardinal Cooke; Billy Graham; 196th Light Infantry; Chu Lai; Cholon (rebuilding); Phu Lam; Ghia Dinh; Vietnamese Marines; ARVN 25th Division; Binh Loi Bridge; Viet Cong defectors; ARVN Rangers; artillery; Fitzpatrick and fellow combat photographers (in the field); rocket attack

14 photographs - interrogation of Viet Cong POWs; Viet Cong POWs receiving medical aid; Viet Cong tunnels; Viet Cong supplies; soldiers (in the field, closing in Viet Cong tunnels); b&w; various sizes

65 photographs - tanks; soldiers (in the field, on patrol, reading, on the radio, burying empty fuel cans, setting charges and blowing up Viet Cong tunnels); interrogation of Viet Cong POWs; Viet Cong POWs receiving medical aid; Viet Cong tunnels and bunkers; Viet Cong supplies; captured weapons; aerial views; helicopters; landscapes; rice paddies; ruined Viet Cong huts; wildlife; briefings; b&w; various sizes

33 photographs - helicopters; soldiers (photographers, digging, setting charges to blow up Viet Cong tunnels, in the jungle); tanks; mine explosions; armored personnel carriers; Major Watson (2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne); captured weapons; b&w; various sizes

71 photographs - Operation Junction City; convoys; helicopters and other aircraft (Chinook, Huey); Tay Ninh; Tan Son Nhut; armored personnel carriers; 10th Cavalry; tanks; James Fitzpatrick and fellow soldiers (on patrol, playing volleyball, washing, shaving, reading); 4th Infantry Division base camp (Tri Bi); HHC 69th Signal Battalion; hootches; local civilians; Operation Big Springs; 173rd Airborne Brigade; Camp Gaylor; bridges; b&w; 3.5 x 5 inches

111 photographs - wounded; medics; armored personnel carriers; mine explosion; convoys; base scenes; tanks; local civilians; Tan Son Nhut; aerial views; Saigon (Majestic Hotel, Saigon River); German hospital ship Heidleburg; bridges; Operation Junction City; 2/22 4th Infantry Division (search and destroy mission); Viet Cong tunnels; soldiers (reading, being transported, building bridges, loading supplies, eating, sleeping, guarding, repairing, on the radio, on patrol, setting up trip flares); helicopter pilots; helicopters, including damage (Chinook); Suoi Da; Dau Tieng; Viet Cong base camp; supplies; damaged vehicles; captured weapons and equipment; b&w; various sizes

37 photographs - soldiers (photographers, drinking, playing cards, retraining injured dogs, in formation); local civilians; Operation Junction City; 10th Cavalry; armored personnel carriers; convoys; Tri Bi (4th Infantry Division camp); Tay Ninh; helicopters and other aircraft; Tan Son Nhut; bridges; HHC 69th Signal Battalion; wounded; Operation Cedar Falls; 173rd Airborne Brigade; Iron Triangle; base scenes; artillery; shops and vendors; street scenes; b&w; 3.5 x 5 inches

27 photographs - aerial views; Mekong Delta; Can Tho; Saigon; 52nd Signal; Vinh Long; street scenes; local civilians (including children); Tan Son Nhut; Bien Hoa highway; armored personnel carriers (including damage); Long Binh; soldiers (sleeping); b&w; various sizes

19 photographs - Dalat; local civilians (including children); Qui Nhon; Nha Trang; street scenes; Cam Ranh Bay; aircraft; b&w; various sizes

13 photographs - Saigon; restaurants; local civilians (including children); street scenes; Camp Gaylor; Tan Son Nhut; dogs; markets; b&w; 2.5 x 3.5 inches

5 photographs - James Fitzpatrick and fellow combat photographers; Camp Gaylor; Tan Son Nhut; Saigon; street scenes; restaurants; b&w; 2.5 x 3.5 inches, 3.5 x 4 inches

1 photograph - James Fitzpatrick eating donuts at Tan Son Nhut; b&w; 3 x 4 inches

2 photographs - James Fitzpatrick (in his office, reading); b&w; 3 x 4.25 inches, 3.75 x 4.25 inches

31 photographs - soldiers (writing letter, providing medical aid, being transported); photo section; photo assignment board; Vietnamese soldiers; captured weapons; night scenes; firefights; war damage; corpses; street fighting; Viet Cong soldiers medal; Camp Gaylor; Mekong Delta; aerial views; Saigon; convoys; street scenes; b&w; various sizes

11 color negatives - soldiers (providing medical aid); captured weapons; war damage; corpses; firefights

1 photograph - James Fitzpatrick writing in his office at Tan Son Nhut; b&w; 3 x 4 inches

2 photographs - garden; color; 3.5 x 3.5 inches

15 photographs - college students in a dorm room; Ken Pollard with photo equipment in his home dark room; home entertainment chair; James Fitzpatrick (at Ft. Monmouth, NJ; looking through camera); Ron Trotter at his desk; b&w, color; various sizes
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  • Box 1 [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, 2nd Floor, Stacks, D186.7 [D186.7]]
  • Box 2 [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, 2nd Floor, Stacks, D186.7 [D186.7]]
  • Box 1
  • Folder 1
  • Pay chart, ID card, Christmas card, clippings (1969, No Date)
  • Folder 2
  • Personal recollections (26 January 1969)
  • Folder 3
  • Award citations and certificates (1969)
  • Folder 4
  • Captured Viet Cong documents (Cholon, 10 May 1968) (1968)
  • Folder 5
  • U.S. Army Signal School diploma and pamphlet, travel orders and flight ticket, clippings (1966-1969, No Date)
  • Folder 6
  • Extension of service request and travel orders (1967)
  • Folder 7
  • Correspondence, personal recollections, and other writings (1967-1968)
  • Folder 8
  • Camera operating manuals (No Date)
  • Folder 9
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from basic training at Ft. Gordon, GA (June-August 1966)
  • Folder 10
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (January 1967)
  • Folder 11
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (February 1967)
  • Folder 12
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (March 1967)
  • Folder 13
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (April 1967)
  • Folder 14
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (May 1967)
  • Folder 15
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (June 1967)
  • Folder 16
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (July 1967)
  • Folder 17
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (August 1967)
  • Folder 18
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (September 1967)
  • Folder 19
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (October 1967)
  • Folder 20
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (November 1967)
  • Folder 21
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (December 1967)
  • Folder 22
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (February 1968)
  • Folder 23
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (March 1968)
  • Folder 24
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (April 1968)
  • Folder 25
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (May 1968)
  • Folder 26
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (June 1968)
  • Folder 27
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (July 1968)
  • Folder 28
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (August 1968)
  • Folder 29
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (September 1968)
  • Folder 30
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (October 1968)
  • Folder 31
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (November 1968)
  • Folder 32
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (December 1968)
  • Folder 33
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (January 1969)
  • Folder 34
  • Letters sent by James Fitzpatrick to parents from Vietnam (February 1969)
  • Folder 35
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (January 1967)
  • Folder 36
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (February 1967)
  • Folder 37
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (March 1967)
  • Folder 38
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (April 1967)
  • Folder 39
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (May 1967)
  • Folder 40
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (June 1967)
  • Folder 41
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (July 1967)
  • Folder 42
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (August 1967)
  • Folder 43
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (September 1967)
  • Folder 44
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (October 1967)
  • Folder 45
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (November 1967)
  • Box 2
  • Folder 1
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (December 1967)
  • Folder 2
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (February 1968)
  • Folder 3
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (March 1968)
  • Folder 4
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (April 1968)
  • Folder 5
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (May 1968)
  • Folder 6
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (June 1968)
  • Folder 7
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (July 1968)
  • Folder 8
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (August 1968)
  • Folder 9
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (September 1968)
  • Folder 10
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (October 1968)
  • Folder 11
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents; letters from Ken Pollard to James Fitzpatrick's father (November 1968)
  • Folder 12
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (December 1968)
  • Folder 13
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from parents (January-February 1969)
  • Folder 14
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Lorraine Frederick (1967)
  • Folder 15
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Lorraine Frederick (February-March 1968)
  • Folder 16
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Lorraine Frederick (April-June 1968)
  • Folder 17
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Lorraine Frederick (July 1968)
  • Folder 18
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Lorraine Frederick (August 1968)
  • Folder 19
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Lorraine Frederick (September-October 1968)
  • Folder 20
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Lorraine Frederick (November-December 1968)
  • Folder 21
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Lorraine Frederick (1969)
  • Folder 22
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Joe DeCicco (1967-1968)
  • Folder 23
  • Letter to James Fitzpatrick from Jacquelyn Hudson (July 1967)
  • Folder 24
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Ken Pollard (1967-1969, 2004)
  • Folder 25
  • Letter to James Fitzpatrick from Peter Schultz (September 1968)
  • Folder 26
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Ron Trotter (1968-1969)
  • Folder 27
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Vernon Veal (1967-1969)
  • Folder 28
  • Letters to James Fitzpatrick from Jim Weasel (1968)
  • Folder 29
  • Letter to James Fitzpatrick from Edward Worman (January 1967)
  • Folder 30
  • Notebooks (1967-1968)
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https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=32960000000
Citation
James F. Fitzpatrick Collection (3296) Finding Aid, James F. Fitzpatrick Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=32960000000, Accessed 08 Feb 2026.
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32960000000, James F. Fitzpatrick Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
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