Vietnam War

Ho Chi Minh writes this letter to President Harry Truman.

In this letter Ho Chi Minh requests that the "American people to interfere urgently in support of our independence and help making the negotiations more in keeping with the principles of the Atlantic and San Francisco charters."

First Dien Bien Phu Wounded Arrive at Orly.

Senator John F. Kennedy's address to the American Friends of Vietnam on the current situation Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Richard Nixon and officials tour a facility during Nixon's trip to South Vietnam.

This is a memorandum for General Lemnitzer concerning anti-guerilla forces in Vietnam.

This is a memorandum for Secretary of State concerning the President's review of the Vietnam Task Force report and his suggestions.

This is a memorandum for the Secretary of State listing actions to be taken concerning South Vietnam.

This is a memorandum for Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense concerning defoliant operations in Vietnam.

This is a memorandum from Michael V. Forrestal, senior staff member of the National Security Council, to President John F. Kennedy regarding potential questions for a meeting between the President, General Earle G. Wheeler, and numerous government officials to discuss General Wheeler's trip to South Vietnam.

This is a letter of condolence from President John F. Kennedy to Mr. and Mrs. William McAndrew for the death of their son, Army Specialist James McAndrew.

This is a typed version of letter from Mrs. Bobbie Lou Pendergrass to President Kennedy concerning the death of her brother, Army Specialist James McAndrew.

This memorandum discusses a serious food propblem which Hanoi views with concern.

This is a Department of State telegram containing a response from President John F. Kennedy to Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia regarding the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

This State Department opinion summary details the varying currents of American opinion vis-a-vis the United States's continued involvement in Vietnam.

This is a report titled - Implication of Total or Partial Cessation of US Military Aid Upon the Military Campaign in the Republic of Vietnam.

In this draft letter to President Diem from President Kennedy, Kennedy discusses the American intentions in Vietnam as well as its viewpoint on the situtation.catalog.archives.gov/id/193383

This memorandum states that there is no sympathy for Diem and only some for the United States dilemma in Vietnam from other countries.

This memorandum details the possibility of a rapprochement between North and South Vietnam as suggested in Jospeph Alsop's 18 September 1963 Washington Postarticle.

Vietnamese Army squad member leap from Marine H-34's and race toward objective. At precisely 10:30 on a sunny morning in late November, the first squads of Vietnamese Army troops scrambled from US Marine helicopters to launch a complex, two landing zone, vertical assault against communist Viet Cong southwest of Da Nang.

Staff Sergeant Howard Stevens, a Special Forces advisor to a Montagnard strike force, gets a chance to read his mail at Phey-Shuron, a camp built in the central Vietnamhighlands. Stevens is part of a 12-man team making soldiers of primitive Koho tribesmen in the jungle mountains west of Dalat.catalog.archives.gov/id/531440

Press Release Following the First Tonkin Gulf Incident.

Time chart for U.S. reprisal air attacks following the Tonkin Gulf Incidents.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Cable 7720.

This is a message to the U.S. Congress regarding the Tonkin Gulf incidents.

This is the Senate roll call tally sheet for Tonkin Gulf Resolution.

Presidential Proclamation 3686 of November 6, 1965, by President Lyndon B. Johnson designating Sunday, November 28, 1965, as a day of dedication and prayer, honoring the men and women of South Vietnam, of the United States, and of all other countries, who are risking their lives to bring about a just peace in South Vietnam.

Three Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots enroute to bomb military target in Vietnam pull up to a flying Air Force "gas station." The refueling aircraft is an Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker.

Robert F. Kennedy Statement on Vietnam War.

A Viet Cong prisoner captured during Operation Double Eagle, 20 miles south of Quang Ngai, Vietnam is brought into the collection area by Marines. Prisoners are blindfolded and tied to prevent escape attempts. The card on the prisoner's black pajama shirt relates to circumstances of his capture.

A Navy gunner mans his 50 caliber machine gun on utility boat as it cruises in the Rung Sat zone of South Vietnam during Operation Jackstay.

U.S. Marines, grouped in fours and fives in outboard motor boats, approach the beach in an amphibious assault in the Rung Sat Zone, 35 miles from Saigon. Rung Sat, infested with Viet Cong, is the target of Operation Jackstay, involving 1,200 Marines.

Lieutenant Commander Dorothy Ryan checks the medical chart of Marine Corporal Roy Hadaway of Calera, Alabama aboard the hospital ship USS repose off South Vietnam. Miss Ryan, from Bronx, New York is one of 29 nurses aboard the hospital ship selected from 500 volunteers of the Navy Nurse Corps.

UH-1D helicopters airlift members of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment from the Filhol Rubber Plantation area to a new staging area, during Operation "Wahiawa," a search and destroy mission conducted by the 25th Infantry Division, northeast of Cu Chi, Vietnam.

In this letter, author John Steinbeck, thanks President Lyndon Johnson for receiving Steinbeck and his son. Steinbeck discusses the Vietnam War, demonstrations and his son who is a soldier.

The nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) cruises in the clear blue water of the Gulf of Tonkin off the shores of Vietnam. With A-4 Skyhawk bombers on her bow, enterprise is ready to recover more aircraft on her angled deck.

Lieutenant Colonel F.S. Wood, commanding officer, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, shows Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze and Major General Lewis J. Fields part of the command post area.

First Lieutenant Jay Robertson instructs Private First Class Cecil E. Dorsey in a back, leg and stomach muscle exercise at the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, area.

During the Pink Rose test program target areas near Tay Ninh and An Loc, Vietnam were sprayed with defoliation agents twice and with a drying agent once. Ten flights of three B-52s each dropped 42 M-35 incendiary incendiary cluster bombs, per aircraft, into the target area setting fires that burned the heavy growth as well as enemy fortifications hidden there. Sweeping over the tree-tops this C-123 Ranch Hand aircraft sprays defoliant over the target area.

Thuong Duc, Vietnam....A Viet Cong prisoner awaits interrogation at the A-109 Special Forces Detachment in Thuong Duc, 25 km west of Da Nang.

Sergeant David E. Weimer prepares to go into the field with Company A, Reconnaissance Battalion. Weimer is a still photographer with the photo lab at Phu Bai, 3rd Marine Division.

This is a confidential memorandum from an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report detailing anti-draft meetings during the Vietnam war and draft card burning.

Medical evacuation patients on the deck of the Amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LPH-10) await transfer to the 22nd Casualty Station in Danang from which they will be sent to the States. Wounded Marines who cannot be returned to duty, or who require more than six days of hospital care are removed from the Tripoli and returned to the USA

Marines of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, while under heavy firefight with NVAs within the DMZ on Operation Hickory III, are carrying one of their fellow Marines to the H-34.

Vietnam....A Marine stands watch in an observation tower as Lieutenant Commander McElroy, the 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines chaplain, holds mass on Hill 950.

Cat Lai, Vietnam. Private First Class, Alan Wondra conducts a class in English at a Vietnamese school during a civic action program of the 199th Infantry Brigade

New Port, Vietnam. Queen's Cobra Arrival in Vietnam. General William C. Westmoreland, Commanding General, MACV, watches the ceremonies on the arrival of the Royal Thai Volunteer Regiment in Vietnam.

Wolfpack pilots of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing sweep Colonel Robin Olds away from his F-4 Phantom II aircraft following his return from his 100th combat mission over North Vietnam. Olds led the Wolfpack through the past year as it amassed 24 MiG victories, the greatest aerial combat record of an F-4 Wing in the Vietnam war. Olds will assume the position of Commandant of Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy on December 1, 1967.

This is the anti-war speech of Raymond Anthony Mungo.

Protestors gather to march against the war in Vietnam.

This is a photograph of the 1st Force Service Regiment in Vietnam.

Cam Rahn Bay, Republic of Vietnam...President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, Addresses U.S. Troops During a visit to Cam Ranh Bay. Attending the ceremony are Rear Admiral Kenneth L. Veth, U.S. Navy (second from left), commander U.S. Naval Forces, Vietnam; General William C. Westmoreland, USA (second row, second from right), commander U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, and the Honorable Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam.

OPERATION "YELLOWSTONE" VIETNAM: Following a hard day, a few members of Company "A," 3rd Battalion, 22nd Infantry (Mechanized), 25th Infantry Division, gather around a guitar player and sing a few songs.

Saigon, Vietnam....Rubble and the remains of barbed wire line the streets of Cholon, a suburb of Saigon that was burned by South Vietnamese army troops in an effort to flush out any Viet Cong that remained after the Tet offensive in late January.

A grenadier from the 3rd Platoon, Company 2nd H, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, carries a Vietnamese woman from Hue Hospital to safety during the battle for Hue.

Bien Hoa, Vietnam. Personnel destined to return to the U.S., wait at the Bien Hoa Air Terminal for a National Airlines flight home.

Vietnam. Walter Cronkite and a CBS Camera crew use a jeep for a dolly during an interview with the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, during the Battle of Hue City.

This is a Vietnam War resistance leaflet.

This pamphlet is the text of an address to the Nation by President Lyndon B. Johnson, broadcast from the White House on March 31, 1968.

Marines riding atop an M-48 tank cover their ears as the 90mm gun fires during a road sweep southwest of Phu Bai.

My Tho, Vietnam, a Viet Cong base camp. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division, with 45 pound 90mm recoiless rifle.

This is a letter between the U.S. Attorney's office and the Selective Service regarding whether to prosecute the men who returned their draft cards in protest.

President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu stands with a world map.

General Creighton W. Abrams, U.S. commander in South Vietnam, discusses the military situation in Vietnam with President Johnson and his advisors October 29 at the White House in Washington.

Chu Lai, Vietnam. Prisoner of War and Detainee Operation. Specialist Curtis N. Duclos, Jr. (Goffstown, NH), roaming MP, 23rd Military Police Company, Americal Division, walks through the Americal Division POW collection point.

Cam Ranh Bay Air Base, South Vietnam - U.S. Air Force F-4 pilot Lieutenant Colonel Gene Levy attends an intelligence debriefing.

Vietnam. Two F-4B Phantoms of VMFA-542, Marine Aircraft Group-11, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, DaNang RVN, on their way to targets in support of Marines working in Northern I Corps.

U.S. Air Force C-123K on a Paratrooper Dropping Mission Over the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

Helicopters await the leading of troops at Polei Kleng, in the Central Highlands of the Republic of South Vietna.

President Richard Nixon discuss the war in Vietnam with General Creighton Abrams, General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle Wheeler and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird.

Private First Class Joseph Big Medicine Jr., a Cheyenne Indian, writes a letter to his family in the United States. He is a member of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, on a search, clear and destroy mission, seven miles east of the Marine Combat Base at An Hoa.

Private First Class Joseph Big Medicine Jr., a Cheyenne Indian, writes a letter to his family in the United States. He is a member of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, on a search, clear and destroy mission, seven miles east of the Marine Combat Base at An Hoa.

A UH-1D helicopter from the 336th Aviation Company sprays a defoliation agent on a dense jungle area in the Mekong delta.

President Richard M. Nixon shaking hands with armed forces in Vietnam.

The leaflets were released near Nha Trang, South Vietnam.

South Vietnam. A UH-1D Medevac helicopter takes off to pick up an injured member of the 101st Airborn Division, near the demilitarized zone.

Marine of Company I.

This is a report about a system for evaluating the effectiveness of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces.

Members of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile), join the children of Ap Uu Thoung hamlet in a game of baseball. The troopers are members of a Battalion Action Team involved in pacification operations in Phong Dieu District, north of Hue.

United States Air Force Captain John R. Vydareny, vaccinates a Vietnamese woman against plage during a MEDCAP visit to the village of Phu Gia near Phu Cat Air Base, South Vietnam.

.U.S. Navy inshore patrol craft PCF-38 of Coastal Division 11 patrols the Cai Ngay Canal.

President Richard Nixon Points to a Map of Cambodia during a Vietnam War Press Conference.

Kent Mayor requests the assistance of the Ohio National Guard to restore law and order in the City of Kent and Kent State University.

Map of the site of the shootings at Kent State University.

Da Nang, Vietnam. Sergeant Robert E. Fears clears an area using his flamethrower.

Combat boots worn out in service.

Pausing for refreshment during their visit to Huu Thanh, a recently pacified village, three U.S. senators on president Richard Nixon's fact-finding committee drink from coconuts. From left to right are Senator Thomas J. McIntyre of New Hampshire, Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada and Senator George Murphy of California.

Saigon, South Vietnam. Staff Sergeant Ermalinda Salazar, a woman Marine, has been nominated for the 1970 Unsung Heroine Award presented annually by the Ladies Auxillary to the veterans of foreign wars. Staff Sergeant Salazar, determined to help the children of the St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage in Vietnamin her off-duty hours, holds two of the youngsters.

This is the statement of J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Before President’s Commission on campus unrest.

This is a telegram from the Student Senate of the University of Kansas to the President of the United States urging the President's Commission on Campus Unrest to come to the University of Kansas to investigate the events and help avoid more deaths.

This is a telegram from Congressmen Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., Robert Mathias, Don Clausen, and William Scherle to Chairman William Scranton of the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest regarding the investigation into the Bombing at Madison, Wisconsin.

This is the statement of Donald S. Mackenzie, who was shot by National Guardsmen at Kent State University.

Members of the 1st ARVN Division move along a trail during an assault operation near Fire Support Base O'Reilly.

This is a child's request to end the war in Vietnam and the response from the White House.

A right front view of a parked UC-123K Provider aircraft of the 315th Tactical Airlift Wing. The aircraft, being inactivated, is named "Patches" for the more than 1,000 hit-hole patches that it received during the Vietnam conflict.

Specialist. 4 Richard Champion, squad leader, Company B, 4th Battalion, 21st Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade, shouts instructions to his squad after receiving sniper fire while on patrol on Hill 56, 70 miles southeast of Chu Lai.

Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. Sergeant Richard L. Moser of Detachment 1, 460th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, signals the pilot to start the engine of a U.S. Air Force RB-57 prior to a reconnaissance mission.

Naval Air station Moffet Field, California. A peaceful demonstrator protesting the war in Vietnam displays his sign at the main gate of the station.

Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam. Lieutenant Colonel John Prodan and Major Kenneth V. Steinharter, of the 460th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, are at the end of the last mission of their RB-57 aircraft.

Vietnam. 1st Lt. Elaine H. Niggemann changes a surgical dressing for Mr. James J. Torgelson at the 24th Evacuation Hospital. Mr. Torgelson is civilian employee for HNA, Inc.

This Headquarters Second Battalion/Ninety-Fourth Field Artillery Daily Journal entry reports the "last American heavy artillery round in Vietnam."

This is an intelligence report from the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the Department of State.

Pictured: Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon, Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., Deputy Assistant.

Bombs lined up as preparations are made for LINEBACKER Operations over North Vietnam, Andersen Air Base, Guam.

A view of the welcome home sign prepared to greet recently released from a prisoner of war home from Vietnam.

President Richard Nixon Announced the Preliminary Approval of the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.

Secretary of State William Rogers Signing the Vietnam Peace Agreements.

Secretary of State William Rogers reading the Vietnam Peace Agreement signatures page.

Hanoi, North Vietnam. American servicemen, former prisoners of war, are cheering as their aircraft takes off from an airfield near Hanoi as part of Operation Homecoming.

In the Clark AB hospital, released Prisoner of War, U.S. Navy LT CMDR Ralph Ellis Gaither, (Captured 17 Oct 65) on the phone with his loved ones in the states. LT CMDR Gaither was in the first group of POWs released by North Vietnam at Hanoi on February 12, 1973.

Ex-POW and U.S. Navy CPT Ernest Milvin Moore Jr., (Captured 11 Mar 67) gets a kiss and a gift from young Robert Ballentine, son of SSGT Michael G. Ballentine assigned to the 6922nd Security Squadron. Robert was one of the many well wishers who came say goodbye to CPT Moore prior to his departure for the United States. CPT Moore was released in Hanoi by North Vietnam on 4 Mar 1973.

President Richard Nixon preparing to announce the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam on live television and radio.

President Richard Nixon greets former Vietnam prisoner of war John McCain, Jr. at a pre-POW dinner reception.

This is a telegram from Ambassador Elsworth Bunker to Secretary of State William Rogers.

Presidential Proclamation 4313 of September 16, 1974, by President Gerald R. Ford announcing a program for the return of Vietnam era draft evaders and deserters.