James Reckner Collection (574) Finding Aid
Collection Item Number: 5740000000
- Collection
- James Reckner Collection
- Title
- Finding Aid
- Linear Feet
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- Pages
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- Language(s)
- English
- Dates
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Creation: 06 August 2003
Scope and Contents
One linear foot of slides, artifacts, periodicals, microfilm, CD-ROM, articles, and ephemera have been collected by Dr. James Reckner and donated to the Vietnam Archive. Included in the collection is a certificate of recognition from the Society of Counterparts; five Vietnamese military medals purchased by Dr. Reckner in Ho Chi Minh City in 2001; a Pocket Guide to Japan; Ho Chi Minh postcards; microfilm reels from 1874-1944 documenting Dr. Reckner's United States Naval history research; articles compiled by the University of Denver for a United States-Vietnam Conference in 1995 in which Reckner participated.Biographical / Historical
James Reckner was formerly the Director of the Vietnam Center. He became the Director of the Institute of Modern Conflict, Diplomacy and Reconciliation in September 2007. He retired at the end of December 2008.- 5
- Books
A Sense of Duty : Our Journey from Vietnam to America by Quang X. Pham, 2005
Ao Dai: My War My Country My Vietnam by Xuan Phuong and Daniele Mazingarbe, 2004 (Inscribed by author)
Flying from the Black Hole: The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam by Robert O. Harder, 2009
Nature, Life and Man by Nguyen Minh Tan, 2010 (signed by the author)
Nhat Ky Dang Thuy Tram by Dan Thuy Tram (inscribed by author's mother)
To You, American Soldier, Who helped Us in Vietnam to Fight Against Communist by Kieu-duc, 2002 (signed by the author)
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- Slides
VAS037863-VAS038229: 375 slides: Soviet Navy, World War II, and various aspects of Military History
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- Museum Objects
Coaster, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet
Meritorious Military Service Order Medal
Ho Chi Minh Campaign Badge
Current PAVN Badge
Order of the Soldier of Glory Medal
PAVN
International Duty Decoration
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- Electronic Media
574EM0436 - CD-ROM Photographs of a Static B-52 Display at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam 22 April 2006, 2 copies
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- Serials
Life: 1961: August 4;
1962: March 9;
1963: December 13, John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition 1963;
1964: July 3;
1965: July 16
1968: August 2, 30; November 1;
1969: January 10; September 5; December 26;
1970: February 27
Look: 1961: July 4
1962: January 2;
1963: December 3;
1964: June 30; November 17;
1965: January: 12; April 6
1967: February 7;
1969: December 30
The Saturday Evening Post: 1963: December 14;
1965: August 14, September 11
Time: 1963: November 29
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- Microforms
Armed Forces Journal (1896 - 1915) 14 reels (Collection Number 1484)
General Board Letter Books (1900 - 1910) 3 reels (Collection Number 1485)
General Board Proceedings (1900 - 1912) 2 reels (Collection Number 1486)
General Board Study 408 (bases) (1914 - 1944) 2 reels (Collection Number 1487)
General Board Study 420-6 (battleships) (1900 - 1920) 3 reels (Collection Number 1488)
General Board Study 446 (1909 - 1915) 1 reel (Collection Number 1489)
Great White Fleet Deck Logs (9 Aug 1908) 1 reel (Collection Number 1490)
National Archived Record Group 59 (no date) 9 reels (Collection Number 1491)
Records of the Joint Board (no date) 13 reels (Collection Number 1492)
Surgeon E.P. Stone's Diary (no date) 1 reel (Collection Number 1493)
Uncle Sam's Magazine (Dec 1905 - Jun 1907) 2 reels (Collection Number 1494)
United Service: Quarterly Review of Military Affairs (1902 - 1905) 2 reels (Collection Number 1495)
United States Naval Institute Proceedings (1874 - 1917) 11 reels (Collection Number 1496)
William Emory and Charles Sperry Papers (no date) 1 reel (Collection Number 1497)
World War II Reports (USS Phelps DD-360) 2 reels (Collection Number 1498)
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- Box 1: [Barcode: 1] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D059.3 ]]
- Box 2: [Barcode: 2] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, [Individual Oversized Collections ]]
- 1000: [Barcode: 1000] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D054.1 ]]
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Certificate of Recognition from the Society of Counterparts presented to James Reckner
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1970 Defense Department Pocket Guide to Japan
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Holiday letter with copied photographs to Jim and Middy Reckner from General and Mrs. Rosson (2002)
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Pack of Ho Chi Minh Memorial Postcards
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Articles compiled by University of Denver for United States-Vietnam Conference in 1995
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Humorous business card for James Reckner
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Correspondence from different aspects of James Reckner's career in from the 1970s through the 1990s, including his naval service, university attendance in New Zealand and his position as a history professor at Texas Tech
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Correspondence between Reckner and Bertha Rosson concering the death of her husband, General William Rosson, USA (Ret).
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Five day series from The Midland Reporter-Telegram from 9-13 September 1990 titled "Beyond the Black Wall"
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=5740000000
- Citation
- James Reckner Collection (574) Finding Aid, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=5740000000, Accessed 02 Aug 2026.
- Pub Credit Line
- 5740000000, James Reckner Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 05 Aug 2003 [Updated: 22 Oct 2024]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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Address
Texas Tech University, Box 41041, Lubbock, TX 79409 -
Phone
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Email
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