Robert F. Ward Collection (1276) Finding Aid
Collection Item Number: 12760000000
- Collection
- Robert F. Ward Collection
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- Finding Aid
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- Language(s)
- English
- Dates
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Creation: 09 February 2004
Scope and Contents
The Robert Ward collection contains Southeast Asia maps; photographs; videotapes; books; several articles, and an oversized drawing of the history of the United States.Biographical / Historical
Robert Ward was born in 1944 in Princeton, Indiana. In 1965, he volunteered for the United States Army and served for three and a half years, until he was dicharged in 1968. Ward spent one of these years in Southeast Asia, where he was a First Lieutenant, serving as an Operations Officer and company XO (Executive Officer) for both the 91st Combat Engineer Battalion in 1966 and the 86th Engineer Battalion in 1967 and 1968. During his service, he was stationed at Fort Gordon, Georgia, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Bearcat Base Camp (9th Infantry Division), RVN (Republic of South Vietnam) and Dong Tam Base (9th Infantry Division). Ward was involved in the Tet Offensive and received the Army Commendation Medal, the Air Medal with 'V' Device, and both the Unit Civic Action Award and the Individual Civic Action Award. After the War, Ward attended college and is currently a member of the Veterans of the Vietnam War Association.- 38
- Books
Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi
Why Vietnam Still Matters: The War and the Wall compiles by Jan Scruggs
Very Crazy, G.I.: Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War by Kregg P.J. Jorgenson
Dak To: America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands by Edward F. Murphy
Taking Charge: A Practical Guide for Leaders by Perry M. Smith
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay
Requiem by Horst Faas and Tim Page
Passage to Vietnam: Through the Eyes of Seventy Photographers by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwin
The Vietnam Experience: Raising the Stakes by Terrence Maitland, Stephen Weiss and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: Rain of Fire by John Morrocco and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: Thunder From Above by John Morrocco and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: Tools of War by Edgar C. Doleman, Jr. and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: A Nation Divided by Clark Dougan, Samuel Lipsman and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: Fighting For Time by Samuel Lipsman, Edward Doyle, and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: SOuth VIetnam on Trial by David Fulghum, Terrence Maitlan and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: The False Peace by Samuel Lipsman, Stephen Weiss, and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: The Fall of the South by Clark Dougan, David Fulghum and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: The Aftermath by Edward Doyle, Terrence Maitland and the editors of Boston Publishing Company
The Vietnam Experience: Images of War by Julene Fischer, text by Robert Stone
The Vietnam Experience: Nineteen Sixty-Eight by Clark Dougan and Stephen Weiss
The Vietnam Experience: A Collision of Cultures by Edward Doyle and Stephen Weiss
The Vietnam Experience: Setting the Stage by Edward Doyle and Samuel Lipsman
The Vietnam Experience: America Takes Over 1965-1967 by Edward Doyle and Samuel Lipsman
The Vietnam Experience: Combat Photographer by Nick Mills
The Vietnam Experience: A Contagion of War by Terrence Maitland and Peter McInerney
A Vietnam Remembrance and Directory of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam by Eric M. Bergerud
Fighting the Bolsheviks: The Russian War Memoir of Private First Class Donald E. Care, U.S. Army, 1918-1919 edited by Neil G. Carey
A History of Warfare by John Keegan
War Story by Jim Morris
Fighting Men: Stories of Soldiering by Jim Morris
The Battle for Saigon: Tet 1968 by Keith William Nolan
Odysseus in America: Comvat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Rangers at War: Combat Recon in Vietnam by Shelby L. Stanton
After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam by Ronald H. Spector
The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood 1975-1980 by Molyda Szymusiak, translated by Linda Coverdale
Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War by George J. Veith
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- Photographs
2 photographs (VA036367 - 68)
Click to view all Photographs
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- Maps
5 maps (Section 12 Drawer 12)
Folding tourist map: Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea
Operational Navigation Chart J-10
Operational Navigation Chart J-11
Operational Navigation Chart K-9
Operational Navigation Chart K-10
Click to view all Maps
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- Moving Images
ABC Turning Point: D-Day 50th
ABC 20/20: POWs in Vietnam
Americans Abandoned: American Defense Institute
Battle of the Bulge, December 1944
Bill Moyers: D-Day, Malmedy Massacre
CBS Sunday Morning: World War II
China Beach - Final Episode
China Beach - Therapy
David Brinkley: I Company, 120th Infantry - D-Day
History of the Airborne
Ia Drang, November 14 - 16, 1965 - Day One
Korea: The Forgotten War
Memorial Day Concert, Women of Courage, Letters from Vietnam
Nature - Vietnam
Normandy - Great Crusade
Pearl Harbor - Schwartzkopf and Kuralt
Peleliu
Siege of Firebase Gloria
Spirit and Nature
Unsolved Mysteries - Col. Shelton - POW / MIA, War Within, Letters Home from Vietnam
Vietnam: the Soldiers Story
We Can Keep You Forever: the Untold Story of the Missing in Action in the Vietnam War
Wings - Volume 3
Wings Over Vietnam, Fall of Saigon
Click to view all Moving Images
- Box 2 (oversize): [Barcode: 2 (oversize)]
- 1000: [Barcode: 1000] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D054.1 ]]
- 1: [Barcode: 1] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D059.6]]
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POWs and Politics: How Much Does Hanoi Really Know. A paper presented on 19 April 1996 at the Center for the Study of the Vietnam Conflict Symposium: "After the Cold War: Reassessing Vietnam" at Texas Tech University (Lubbock). Written by Garnett 'Bill' Bell and George J. Veith
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The "1205 Document": Another View by George J. Veith (March 5, 1998)
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Modes in Human-Automation Interaction: Initial Observations about a Modeling Approach by Asaf Degani (San Jose State University, California) and Alex Kirlik (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
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Mode Usage in Automated Cockpits: Some Initial Observations by Asaf Degani (San Jose State University, California), Michael Shafto (NASA Ames Research Center, Mt. View, California) and Alex Kirlik (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
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Do You Know What Mode You're In? An Analysis of Mode Error in Everyday Things by by Anthony Andre (Interface Analysis Associates, San Jose, California) and Asaf Degani (San Jose State University, California)
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Oversize material
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"The Eagle Flies First" a drawing by Del Riley and Les Hamlin depicting the history of the United States
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=12760000000
- Citation
- Robert F. Ward Collection (1276) Finding Aid, Robert F. Ward Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=12760000000, Accessed 07 May 2026.
- Pub Credit Line
- 12760000000, Robert F. Ward Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 08 Feb 2004 [Updated: 22 Aug 2017]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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