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Teodore E. Gutierrez Collection (098) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 0980000000
Title
Finding Aid
Linear Feet
1.5
Pages
1
Language(s)
English
Dates
Creation: 05 December 2001
Scope and Contents
Just over one linear foot of photographs, certificates, commendations, command chronologies, and medals document Teodoro E. Gutierrez's service as an Automatic Rifleman with the 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, Company E, Battalion Landing Team 2/4, December 17, 1974 - May 23, 1975. Most materials date from the 1970s.
Biographical / Historical
Private First Class Teodoro E. Gutierrez served as an Automatic Rifleman with the 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, Company E, Battalion Landing Team 2/4 from December 17, 1974 to May 23, 1975. He was involved in Operation QUICK JAB II, Operation EAGLE PULL, and Operation FREQUENT WIND. An oral history with Mr. Gutierrez is available in the Vietnam Archive.
2
Photographs
VA009797 - VA010076
VA063884 in oversize box 4
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2
Museum Objects
098museum4224- National Dense medal and ribbon set
098museum4225-Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and ribbon set
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1
Oral History
OH0104 Interview with Tedoro Gutierrez
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  • Box 2 : [Barcode: 2 ] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, [Scrapbook Box D078.3B ]]
  • Box 1 : [Barcode: 1 ] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D058.3 ]]
  • Armed Forces of the United States Identification Card
  • Meal Card, July 30, 1979
  • Meal Card, July 22, 1975
  • Geneva Conventions Identification Card
  • American National Red Cross Swimming Card
  • Honorary Recruiter for the USMC Card
  • Hotel Sexton Business Card
  • 1000 Dong Note
  • 50 Dong Note
  • 500 Dong Note
  • 1 Signapore Dollar Note
  • Easter Card
  • Roland L. Holten poem, "Beachhead Revisited"
  • Prayer Card from Saint Martin De Porres
  • Certificates and commendations
  • Command Chronology, Battalion Landing Team 2/4, May 3, 1975
  • Command Chronology, Battalion Landing Team 2/4, May 17, 1975
  • Newspaper Clipings and iscelaneous material
  • contents of two scrapbooks (a) -
  • contents of two scrapbooks (b)
  • contents of two scrapbooks (c)
  • contents of two scrapbooks (d)
  • The backing board for the Frame for Photograph of the 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, Company E, Battalion Landing Team 2/4; this is written on it: 'To My Mother and Father And Famliey With all the Love In the World, Your Big Son and his brother, PFC Teodore E. Gutierrez JR., 2st PLT. I AM A MARINE AND A MAN' - -
  • Memorial book from Gutierrez's bootcamp titled 'Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego California, Second Battalion Platoon 2024'
  • Two Scrapbooks

Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=0980000000

Citation
Teodore E. Gutierrez Collection (098) Finding Aid, Teodore E. Gutierrez Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=0980000000, Accessed 11 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line
0980000000, Teodore E. Gutierrez Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Added: 04 Dec 2001 [Updated: 30 Sep 2019]