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Torch (Air Force) - Serial
Serial Item Number: 2326Serial471373
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[Number of Pages: 24]
Old Airplanes and Staying Safe in the Real World

A Message from 'Nam - A retired Air Force pilot and flight surgeon tells the story of the day he and another pilot crashed their F-4 after a bombing mission over North Vietnam. He
suffered major injuries and the mishap cost his aircraft commander his life. But the lessons he learned can still help pilots flying in today's Air Force

Baghdad Brotherhood
Coyotes and Cockpits

Torch Talk
Around the Command
Tales of the Strange
The Alert Consumer
Hangar Flying
Clear the Runway

Volume: 15
Issue: 4
Item Creation Date: September/October 2008
Collection: Vernon Wagner Collection
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Added: 12 Aug 2010 [Updated: 21 Oct 2025]
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Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA069895
  • VA069895
Sites marked on map: Bomb Damage; Haiphong bridge
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor Collection
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Added: 10 Apr 2019 [Updated: 08 Aug 2024]
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Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA069897
  • VA069897
Thanh Hoa RR Class. Yard; 19-48-30N 105-46-15E; RVAH-7 [U.S. Navy Reconnaissance Attack Squadron (Heavy) Seven]; 13MAY66; post-strike, CVAN-65

Item Creation Date: 13 May 1966
Collection: Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor Collection
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Added: 10 Apr 2019 [Updated: 08 Aug 2024]
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Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA069898
  • VA069898
Uong Bi Powerplant (Poststrike); 22DEC65, CVN65
Item Creation Date: 22 December 1965
Collection: Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor Collection
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Added: 10 Apr 2019 [Updated: 08 Aug 2024]
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Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA069951
  • VA069951
Hai Phong RR/HWY BR 616-0002 uert 492C; 205108N 1064015E 5OCT67 RVAH-12[U.S. Navy Reconnaissance Attack Squadron (Heavy) Twelve] PAN 130; CONF GP-3

ID Coral Sea 28SEP67 ENCL (5)

Item Creation Date: 05 October 1967
Collection: Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor Collection
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Added: 19 Apr 2019 [Updated: 09 Aug 2024]
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Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA069976
  • VA069976
5FEB67
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor Collection
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Added: 24 Apr 2019 [Updated: 15 Aug 2024]
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Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA069919
  • VA069919
name: vinh afld; coord: 184402n1054032e; msm: ue 534e; date: 10may68; sr/fr: 6l/o 18-20; b.e.: 0617-08412; alt: var; RVAH-1 [U.S. Navy Reconnaissance Attack Squadron (Heavy) One]; confidential-gp 3; U.S.S. Enterprise
Item Creation Date: 10 May 1968
Collection: Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor Collection
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Added: 11 Apr 2019 [Updated: 09 Aug 2024]
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Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA069974
  • VA069974
"THE STINGERS WERE HERE"; 9 out of 10 SAMS, transporters destroyed, 1 radar van destroyed; 1 pol truck destroyed, 7 June after
Item Creation Date: December 1969
Collection: Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor Collection
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Added: 24 Apr 2019 [Updated: 15 Aug 2024]
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  • 0240602020
[Number of Pages: 3]
Item Creation Date: 18 January 1967
Collection: Larry Berman Collection (Presidential Archives Research)
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Added: 27 Apr 2003 [Updated: 27 Apr 2003]
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Documents the relationship of the carrier Kitty Hawk and the frigate William H. Standley as part of Task Force 77 in the Gulf Of Tonkin in 1969. Excellent scenes aboard both ships - catapult launches, high-line transfer, below and above deck operations. Also includes interviews with the COs of both ships Produced by the Navy Department, this video details numerous activities aboard both ships - There are interviews with pilots, crewmen, engineers and seamen. A ready-room briefing, mail delivery via the logistics helicopter and recreational activities are covered in detail. Also included are 'stand-down day' activies such as capatulting an officer's shoes of the deck of a carrier. This video also includes a secound film (no sound) that covers flight deck activities aboard Kitty Hawk and a bombing mission over North Vietnam.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive Collection
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Added: 12 Feb 2002 [Updated: 19 Nov 2013]
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600th Photo Squadron In Vietnam
Moving Image Item Number: 998VI0594
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Produced by the Air Force in 1968, this film covers the activities of the 600th Photo Squadron in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. The 600th was headquartered at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon. The video documents the various duties performed by squadron members, whose job it is to document anything significant that happened. You'll see them jump into combat zones, ride along on chopper missions and on low and high altitude bombing runs. There's an excellent section on armament photography - use of gun cameras for fighter and bombing mission assessment. This video includes some of the best footage you'll see on Mig kills and low altitude bombing runs, hitting bridges and railroads. It also details the day-to-day job-related activities of this squadron, such as editing film and assessing photos in the lab. After watching this video, you'll have enormous respect for the job and accomplishments of the Air Force personnel whose job it was to document the War in Vietnam.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive Collection
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Added: 14 Feb 2002 [Updated: 19 Nov 2013]
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388th Tactical Fighter Wing, Korat RTAFB
Moving Image Item Number: 998VI0600
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Produced by the Air Force during the buildup in Southeast Asia, the official title of this documentary is 'There Is A Way.' This is a great documentary that puts you there and gives you a feel for this part of the Vietnam War. Operating out of Korat Air Base in Thailand, U.S. pilots flew F-105s on extremely dangerous combat missions over North Vietnam from 1966 through 1968. The video features colorful interviews with pilots who completed 100 missions, as wells as with the ground crews and flight controllers who guided the pilots on their missions. You'll see an actual combat mission over North Vietnam, during which the pilots take heavy flak before dropping their bombs. You'll witness the relief both pilots and ground crews share on the runway when the mission is over. And the celebrations when a pilot comes rolling in after 100 missions. The documentary also contains a good deal of footage of Korat Air Base, including briefings and the intense preparations of the aircraft for its next bombing mission. There are several great scenes of off-duty pilots relaxing in bars, swapping stories and enjoying each other's company.
Item Creation Date: 01 January 1966
Collection: Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive Collection
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Added: 14 Feb 2002 [Updated: 19 Nov 2013]
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Rescue Dawn
Moving Image Item Number: 1299VI3386
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In 1965, an American pilot on a top-secret bombing mission was shot down over Laos and taken to a hellish prison camp deep in the impenetrable jungle of Vietnam. What followed was one of the most remarkable and harrowing experiences of the entire Vietnam War. Inspired by a true story. It stands as a true testament to the impossible boundaries of the human condition and the invincibility of the American spirit.
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Joseph V. Potter Collection
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Added: 09 Mar 2014 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
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  • 36020104009
[Number of Pages: 2]
Item Creation Date: 19 February 1972
Collection: Robert Brotzman Collection
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Added: 09 Feb 2026 [Updated: 09 Feb 2026]
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[Number of Pages: 65]
Author(s): Major George R. Fessler Jr
Item Creation Date: 17 June 1971
Collection: Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive Collection
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Added: 15 Nov 2012 [Updated: 15 Nov 2012]
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  • 3671216019
[Number of Pages: 3]
Item Creation Date: 17 June 1965
Collection: George J. Veith Collection
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Added: 24 Oct 2004 [Updated: 24 Oct 2004]
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  • 0251115021
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Larry Berman Collection (Westmoreland v. CBS)
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Added: 05 Mar 2002 [Updated: 18 Feb 2022]
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COMMAND CHRONOLOGY [VMA (AW) - 242]
Document Item Number: 1201091019
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[Number of Pages: 0080]
VMA (AW) - 242 Marine All Weather Attack Squadron 242)

Photograph - The Honorable Harry F. Byrd, Democratic Senator from Virginia, gets first hand word on A6A from Lieutenant Colonel Howard Wolf, Commanding Officer of VMA(AW)-242.
Roster of Air Medals.
Certificates of Achievements.
R.W. Aschraft's Award.
Photograph - Pilots and bombardier-navigators attend an operations and intelligence briefing at Marine Aircraft Group 11: Chief Warrant Officer Douglas E. Wilson and Captain Jesse T. Randall, members of Marine All Weather Attack Squadron 242, study maps and aerial photographs in preparation for a night bombing mission in North Vietnam.
Logistics Summary.
Situation Report.
Flight Schedules.

Item Creation Date: March 1967
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 08 Oct 2020]
  • 27930103001
[Number of Pages: 150]
Item Creation Date: January 1968
Collection: Bruce Flaherty Collection
Association: Americal Division Veterans Association
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Added: 14 Nov 2018 [Updated: 26 Nov 2018]
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COMMAND CHRONOLOGY [VMFA - 542]
Document Item Number: 1201108045
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[Number of Pages: 0043]
VMFA-542 (Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 542) ;

Location: Danang Air Base, RVN ;
Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) for month ;
Daily Flight Schedules ;

Item Creation Date: July 1968
Collection: US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection
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Added: 30 Nov 2004 [Updated: 11 Jun 2022]
POWs in Laos - David L. Hrdlicka
Document Item Number: 3671410022
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[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: George J. Veith Collection
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Added: 16 Dec 2004 [Updated: 21 Nov 2005]
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Unclassified Document- RP84-059/RP84-058/RP84-057
Document Item Number: 11270202078
  • 11270202078
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Garnett Bell Collection
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Added: 22 Apr 2007 [Updated: 22 Apr 2007]
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Item Creation Date: 1964
Collection: Robert E. Baxter Collection
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Added: 07 Dec 2011 [Updated: 10 Dec 2012]
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Interview with James Overman
Oral History Item Number: OH0364

[This Item may contain objectionable materials.]

[Number of Pages: 1]
(USAF, CIA) James King Overman was born in 1933 in Wisconsin, where he attended St. John's Military Academy. He enlisted in the US Air Force at age 18, and after training as a mechanic he qualified for pilot training. Jim was commissioned in April 1954 at Goodfellow AFB, and he flew B-26 aircraft on patrols of the 38th Parallel in Korea 1954-55. He was based in Japan at Itami AFB 1955-56 and at Reese AFB 1956-69 before spending six years as an instructor in the Training Command at Randolph AFB. During 1965-67 he was assigned to the 817 Troop Carrier Squadron, Naha AB, Okinawa, with TDY postings to Danang and Ubon, Thailand. He flew 'Blind Bat' missions as a night forward air controller over the DMZ and North Vietnam. During 1970-71, as part of the 16th SOS, he flew nighttime interdiction missions over Laos and South Vietnam in AC-130 gunships, as well as High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) flights and a bombing mission over Cambodia. At his retirement from active duty in 1972 Jim was one of the most highly decorated Native American pilots in US Air Force history. During the 1970s and 1980s Jim flew on a contract basis for the Central Intelligence Agency, including evacuation flights from Phnom Penh, Danang, and Saigon in 1975, cargo flights in Angola in the mid-1980s, and training flights for Saudi pilots in Saudi Arabia in 1988.
Author(s): Laura M. Calkins, PhD
Item Creation Date: 04 June 2004
Collection: James K. Overman Collection
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Added: 13 Jun 2004 [Updated: 24 Jan 2008]
Notes on people
Document Item Number: 2360209095
  • 2360209095
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 01 February 1974
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 08 - Biography
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Added: 08 May 2005 [Updated: 12 May 2005]
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  • 6231101048
[Number of Pages: 2]
Item Creation Date: 09 September 1994
Collection: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. Collection: General Subject Files
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Added: 17 Aug 2010 [Updated: 17 Aug 2010]
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  • 25020101032
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 16 February 1973
Collection: Lucile Strausser Collection
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Added: 28 Aug 2013 [Updated: 19 Sep 2013]
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  • 25020101033
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 09 March 1973
Collection: Lucile Strausser Collection
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Added: 28 Aug 2013 [Updated: 19 Sep 2013]
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Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA069944
  • VA069944
065 UE712USTA. 3CONF; 19JUL67 6" 4000' AGL; MY XA PET. PROD STOR; 210415N1061934E; 0616-03317; VFR63L/CVW-21
Item Creation Date: 19 July 1967
Collection: Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor Collection
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Added: 19 Apr 2019 [Updated: 09 Aug 2024]
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  • 28260107008
[Number of Pages: 1]
Author(s): Bill Murphy
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Louise Mulligan Collection
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Added: 02 Oct 2019 [Updated: 02 Oct 2019]
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Photograph
Photograph Item Number: VA069892
  • VA069892
CONFIDENTIAL, TPL ORIENTATION; FICPACFAC CUBI PT, RP, PT 24, T-053; Name: NGOC SON HWY BR (E); GEO COORD: 183243N/1054217E; UTM COORD: WF 74405047; (1) BR APRX 25' X 12', -SERV; (2) HWY SEG TAL; TPL NO: N/A; B.E. NO: 614-PO411; M.A. NO: MQ 20201; MSN: UEYT125Q/2; DATE OF MSN: 04JAN68; PRODUCTION DATE: 16JAN68; STATION: H PAN; FRAME: 16 CONFIDENTIAL
Item Creation Date: 16 January 1968
Collection: Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor Collection
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Added: 10 Apr 2019 [Updated: 08 Aug 2024]
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  • 3671216010
[Number of Pages: 2]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: George J. Veith Collection
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Added: 24 Oct 2004 [Updated: 21 Nov 2005]
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Vietnam: Chronicle of a War
Moving Image Item Number: 3370VI4336
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CBS News Collectors Series - Vietnam: Chronicle of a War

A shattering portrait of Vietnam - the world's first "television war."

From our first tentative steps into the morass of Southeast Asia through those desperate final moments of escape from the besieged city of Da Nang, Vietnam: Chronicle of a War traces the history of the devastating conflict that was fought in a far-off land - and then re-run nightly on our television screens. Drawing upon the resources of the CBS News Archives, and narrated by Walter Cronkite, here are little known stories we could never forget - as reported by on-the-scene, award-winning news correspondents and camera crews.

- Charles Kuralt brings the war home with poignant close-ups of uncertainty, fear, and heroism on a risky assignment in an enemy-infested jungle.

- Morley Safer reports the horror as a village hamlet is leveled by American soldiers.

- Walter Cronkite goes along on a dangerous bombing mission over South Vietnam.

- Charles Collingwood pays a rare visit to the capital city of Hanoi.

- Bruce Dunning documents the final calamitous days of the fall of South Vietnam.

Over a decade of tragedy and horror is recounted in these reports and others by such correspondents as Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, and Eric Sevareid. An important and deeply moving contemporary history, Vietnam: Chronicle of a War sheds new light on that horrendous conflict and on the price we paid for peace.

Item Creation Date: 1981
Collection: Jay B. Haney Collection
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Added: 15 Feb 2023 [Updated: 20 Jan 2026]
  • 14511980009
[Number of Pages: 2]
Item Creation Date: 30 November 1973
Collection: Social Movements Collection
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Added: 15 Sep 2008 [Updated: 15 Sep 2008]
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  • 11270912014
[Number of Pages: 3]
Item Creation Date: 06 April 1993
Collection: Garnett Bell Collection
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Added: 09 Sep 2010 [Updated: 09 Sep 2010]
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  • F015800121085
[Number of Pages: 3]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive Collection
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Added: 08 Apr 2013 [Updated: 08 Apr 2013]
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  • 27700416002
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 13 November 1965
Collection: J. D. Coleman Collection
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Added: 10 Apr 2018 [Updated: 10 Apr 2018]
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  • 27700413024
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 13 November 1965
Collection: J. D. Coleman Collection
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Added: 05 Apr 2018 [Updated: 10 Apr 2018]
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  • 1071006041
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 07 October 1965
Collection: Glenn Helm Collection
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Added: 04 Apr 2018 [Updated: 04 Apr 2018]
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Gen. Abrams gets top Vietnam post; Deputy is named
Document Item Number: 2360101023
  • 2360101023
[Number of Pages: 2]
Item Creation Date: 11 April 1968
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 08 - Biography
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Added: 15 Feb 2005 [Updated: 15 Feb 2005]
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  • 1440207003
[Number of Pages: 2]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: Malcolm McConnell Collection
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Added: 02 Nov 2011 [Updated: 02 Nov 2011]
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  • 3671216001
[Number of Pages: 2]
Item Creation Date: No Date
Collection: George J. Veith Collection
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Added: 24 Oct 2004 [Updated: 21 Nov 2005]
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  • 18550101006
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 23 October 1965
Collection: Hugh M. Davidson Collection
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Added: 03 Oct 2006 [Updated: 10 Jan 2007]
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  • 18550101005
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: no date
Collection: Hugh M. Davidson Collection
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Added: 03 Oct 2006 [Updated: 03 Oct 2006]
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Big Brother On Doctrine
Document Item Number: 2320702003
  • 2320702003
[Number of Pages: 3]
Item Creation Date: 1970
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 06 - Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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Added: 12 May 2003 [Updated: 12 May 2003]
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  • 1071107045
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 26 September 1971
Collection: Glenn Helm Collection
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Added: 04 Jan 2019 [Updated: 04 Jan 2019]
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  • 30080103041
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 31 May 1972
Collection: John G. (Jack) Heslin Collection
Association: Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)
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Added: 27 Feb 2019 [Updated: 27 Feb 2019]
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  • 2930612056
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 17 June 1968
Collection: Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA) Collection: General Files
Association: Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)
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Added: 27 Aug 2019 [Updated: 04 Sep 2019]
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  • 2430404066
[Number of Pages: 1]
Item Creation Date: 26 March 1972
Collection: Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 15 - Cambodia
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Added: 07 Feb 2006 [Updated: 07 Feb 2006]
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