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[Photograph 2012.201.B0226.0140]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Before Dinner Chat- Francis Cardinal Spellman chats with A1C John Ciesluk, 22, of Shamokin, Pa., an air policeman at the Bien Hoa air base north of Saigon. Cardinal Spellman shared a dinner with the men in the dining hall here recently."
Date: January 17, 1966
Creator: Air Force
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Academic Year 1969-1970, Unit 7: North Korea, North Vietnam, and the Mongolian People's Republic (open access)

Academic Year 1969-1970, Unit 7: North Korea, North Vietnam, and the Mongolian People's Republic

This booklet is the seventh unit of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about the military forces of Communist countries. This unit discusses North Korea, North Vietnam, and the Mongolian People's Republic.
Date: July 1969
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Command Study 9, Chapter 6. Counterinsurgency in Modern Practice (open access)

Command Study 9, Chapter 6. Counterinsurgency in Modern Practice

This booklet is the sixth chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about the state of defense in the United States during the Cold War. This chapter discusses how the principles of insurgency and counterinsurgency "have been applied, and are being applied, in actual practice in some specific campaigns since World War Two" (p. 1). It includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of suggested readings for further study.
Date: February 1963
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Command Study 13, Chapter 5. Military Civic Action (open access)

Command Study 13, Chapter 5. Military Civic Action

This booklet is the fifth chapter of a training course developed for Air Force Reserve personnel about counterinsurgency. This chapter discusses "civic action as a weapon against Communist-inspired subversion" (p. 2). It includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: December 1964
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current Study 15, Chapter 4. Vietnam (North and South) (open access)

Current Study 15, Chapter 4. Vietnam (North and South)

This booklet is the fourth chapter of a training course developed for Air Reserve personnel about Southeast Asia. This chapter discusses Vietnam and includes background information, analysis, review questions, and a list of readings for further study.
Date: March 1966
Creator: Air University (U.S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Antonio Amador, April 25, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Antonio Amador, April 25, 2001

Interview with Antonio Amador, a veteran who was wounded in action as a sniper with the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. The transcript includes a list of questions, which include a focus on Amador being shot and his experiences while serving and back at home.
Date: February 22, 2003
Creator: Amador, Y. & Amador, Antonio
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Dillon Anderson to Harris Leon Kempner, January 8, 1959] (open access)

[Letter from Dillon Anderson to Harris Leon Kempner, January 8, 1959]

Letter from Dillon Anderson to Harris Leon Kempner thanking him for his letter of January 6, enclosed with a copy of he Foreign Policy Bulletin on Laos which is of his interest. So, Anderson requests Kempner to suggest any names of the people who are living in The Philippines, South Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand so he could ouch bases with them.
Date: January 8, 1959
Creator: Anderson, Dillon
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hail Mary: The Effect of the 1972 "Linebacker" Bombings on the Paris Peace Accords (open access)

Hail Mary: The Effect of the 1972 "Linebacker" Bombings on the Paris Peace Accords

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing Richard Nixon's "Linebacker" aerial bombings of the North Vietnamese army as a means by which to force peace.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Arduengo, Enrique Sebastian
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B1331.0073]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dancer participates in the paradise dance."
Date: January 24, 1982
Creator: Beckel, Jim
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BF-358: AH-1G HueyCobra NETT Operations captions transcript

BF-358: AH-1G HueyCobra NETT Operations

Footage of the AH-1G HueyCobra New Equipment Transition Team (NETT). No sound.
Date: 1967
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
BF-3377: 35 Years With the Huey captions transcript

BF-3377: 35 Years With the Huey

This video contains footage of a number of UH-1 models, including the experimental XH-40, and Huey variant models: UH-1A, B, D, E, H, and N. The video shows the aircraft performing a variety of operations, including combat, transportation, and medevac. Some of the combat footage was shot in Vietnam in 1965. The video concludes with a still image of U.S. President Ronald Reagan exiting Marine One, at the time a VH-1N.
Date: 1989~
Creator: Bell Helicopter Textron
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mercenaries in Service to America: The "More Flags" Foreign Policy of the United States (open access)

Mercenaries in Service to America: The "More Flags" Foreign Policy of the United States

On 23 April 1964, five months after assuming the office of President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson launched the "More Flags" program as United States policy. While the publicly stated purpose of.the "More Flags" program was to obtain as much non-military free world aid for the Republic of Vietnam as possible, the program's principle goal centered around Lyndon Johnson's desire to obtain an international consensus for America's policies toward Vietnam and Southeast Asia. The "More Flags" program continued to serve both goals for the remainder of Johnson's presidency. Although started with high expectations of success, the "More Flags" program never succeeded in achieving the levels of international cooperation Lyndon Johnson desired. In fact, the program's significant lack of success necessitated a number of changes, during the program's first year, in both its stated goals and in the methods used to prosecute it's implementation. The most important of these changes would be Washington's use of the program's beneficent objectives to mask it's use as the means through which the United States would purchase mercenary troops to fight in South Vietnam. "Mercenaries in Service to America: The 'More Flags' Foreign Policy of the United States," presents the available history of …
Date: August 1992
Creator: Blackburn, Robert M. (Robert Michael)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Raymond D. Carter, April 26, 2002 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Raymond D. Carter, April 26, 2002

Interview with Raymond D. Carter, a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War who served as a bosun's mate on LSTs. Carter describes his experiences in basic training and his impressions of the war.
Date: March 29, 2003
Creator: Bottoms, Aaron & Carter, Raymond D.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Raymond D. Carter, April 26, 2002 transcript

Oral History Interview with Raymond D. Carter, April 26, 2002

Interview with Raymond D. Carter, a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War who served as a bosun's mate on LSTs. Carter describes his experiences in basic training and his impressions of the war.
Date: April 26, 2002
Creator: Bottoms, Aaron & Carter, Raymond D.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from General Omar N. Bradley to Captain William F. Gabella, September 9, 1966] (open access)

[Letter from General Omar N. Bradley to Captain William F. Gabella, September 9, 1966]

Letter from General Omar N. Bradley to Captain William F. Gabella commenting on the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Army Primary Helicopter Center. He apologizes for not replying to the Center's request for comments, citing being out of the city for a month as his reason. He also briefly mentions Vietnam. On the back of the letter is a stamp giving the Boyce-Ditto Public Library's address.
Date: September 9, 1966
Creator: Bradley, Omar N.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1393.0332]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When the USS Card settled into muddy Saigon harbor Saturday it brought back a flood of memories for an Oklahoma City man, C.L. Ware, a staff land man for Sohio Pretroleum Co."
Date: May 2, 1964
Creator: Brown, Don
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Telegram from Messrs. Bullis, Byrd, Donovan, Luce, and Spaatz to Harris and Ruth Kempner, May 8, 1955] (open access)

[Telegram from Messrs. Bullis, Byrd, Donovan, Luce, and Spaatz to Harris and Ruth Kempner, May 8, 1955]

Telegram sent by Messrs. Bullis, Byrd, Donovan, Luce, and Spaatz on behalf of the International Rescue Committee to Harris and Ruth Kempner, requesting donations for a fund to help support refugees fleeing North Vietnam. The telegram was sent via Western Union.
Date: May 8, 1955
Creator: Bullis, Harry A.; Byrd, Richard E.; Donovan, William J.; Luce, Henry & Spaatz, Carl
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harry A. Bullis, Leo Cherne, Paul G. Hoffman, and General Carl Spaatz to Isaac H. Kempner, October 22, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from Harry A. Bullis, Leo Cherne, Paul G. Hoffman, and General Carl Spaatz to Isaac H. Kempner, October 22, 1954]

Letter from the Dinner Committee of the International Rescue Committee to Isaac H. Kempner inviting him to a dinner meeting where they will collect money for the Freedom Fund.
Date: October 22, 1954
Creator: Bullis, Harry A.; Cherne, Leo; Hoffman, Paul G. & Spaatz, Carl
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1089.0595]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ALIVE AND WELL, captured American air ace Lt. Col. James R. Risner of Oklahoma City appears at a news conference in Hanoi Monday, first time he has been seen since he bacame a prisoner of war in September, 1965."
Date: August 7, 1969
Creator: CBS News
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1089.0600]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "ALIVE AND WELL, captured American air ace Lt. Col. James R. Risner of Oklahoma City appears at a news conference in Hanoi Monday, first time he has been seen since he bacame a prisoner of war in September, 1965."
Date: August 7, 1969
Creator: CBS News
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oral History Interview with Jerry L. Campbell, November 6, 2003 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jerry L. Campbell, November 6, 2003

Interview with Jerry L. Campbell, a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War from Houston, Texas. Campbell describes his experiences in the war as a Chinook helicopter mechanic and the time his helicopter was shot down.
Date: November 6, 2003
Creator: Campbell, Justin & Campbell, Jerry L.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jerry L. Campbell, November 6, 2003 transcript

Oral History Interview with Jerry L. Campbell, November 6, 2003

Interview with Jerry L. Campbell, a U.S. Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War from Houston, Texas. Campbell describes his experiences in the war as a Chinook helicopter mechanic and the time his helicopter was shot down.
Date: November 6, 2003
Creator: Campbell, Justin & Campbell, Jerry L.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Leo Cherne to H. Kempner, December 17, 1954] (open access)

[Letter from Leo Cherne to H. Kempner, December 17, 1954]

Letter from Leo Cherne to H. Kempner asking for donations to support Vietnam and convince to them to not become a communist nation.
Date: December 17, 1954
Creator: Cherne, Leo
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prisoners of War in Indochina, 1971-1972: Legal Issues, Policies, and Initiatives of Major Parties to the Conflict and Efforts to Secure Release (open access)

Prisoners of War in Indochina, 1971-1972: Legal Issues, Policies, and Initiatives of Major Parties to the Conflict and Efforts to Secure Release

This report discuses U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam and nearby countries such as Cambodia and Laos and efforts to secure their release.
Date: August 22, 1972
Creator: Christopher, Luella Sue
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library