Scope and Contents

Divided into three subsections this unit consists of three sections which deal with the criteria for statistical analysis of the war, statistical data on all aspects of the war, and chronological statistical tabulations. This section provides statistical data associated with the Vietnam Conflict including information on the U.S. Hamlet Evaluation System (HES), body count debate, order of battle, cost of the war, air war, economy, military and technical assistance to North and South Vietnam, damage estimates, data on the ground soldiers, and a variety of other statistical information.

Biographical / Historical

Professor Pike was born in 1925. He served as a journalist in the Army during World War II (in the Pacific Theater of Operations) and during the Korean Conflict. He earned degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and American University. He served as an FSO in Taiwan, Korea, Lebanon, and Vietnam. In 1982 he began teaching at UC-Berkeley and in 1997 moved Texas Tech University. Professor Pike housed and supported the Collection until 1982 when he moved it to Berkeley. It remained there until 1992 when Berkeley considered discontinuing its support for the Indo-China Studies Project. After being approached by Professor Pike, Dr. James Reckner, Director of the Vietnam Center at Tech, and Dr. David Murrah, Assistant Director of Libraries for the Special Collections, worked together to bring the Collection to the Archive in 1994.