Scope and Contents

Photographs document Air America activities in Vietnam, including images of crash wreckage, landing facilities, and a female Viet Cong prisoner, circa 1969. Also included in the collection is a facsimilie of Alan Shepard's Mercury flight record, 1961. Draft copy of the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.

Biographical / Historical

Oren Harnage was born in 1926 in Tampa, Florida. In 1943, Harnage volunteered for the United States Naval Reserve and served a total of three years in the South Pacific, ending his tour in 1946. During this time, he served with USN Amphibious Assault and was stationed at Okinawa and the Philippines. Harnage then served as a paramilitary officer with the Central Intelligence Agency as a member of Air America. He was stationed at Vientiane, Laos, Udorn, Thailand, and Da Nang and Saigon, South Vietnam and was involved in the following events: the 1968 attack on Da Nang, the South Vietnamese evacuation in 1975 and the Saigon air evacuation by Air America in 1975. For his service in the CIA, Harnage received the Civilian Participation award and the Intelligence Star for Valor. After leaving the service in 1977 as a GS-13, Harnage became a private investigator, a real estate agent, and later became a motor home park manager. He is a member of the Air America Association, Veterans of Foreign War and the American Legion.