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 Finding Aid: Nicholas Carbone Collection Item Number: 21960000000

Association Collection (LCDR Jack Graf Memorial Collection - Naval Intelligence Liaison Officers (NILO))
Location: D060.7; Artifact Collection


Scope & Content:

  • Report created by Nicholas Carbone documents his service as a Naval Intelligence Liaison Officer (NILO) in Vietnam from May 1969 to May 1970.

Biographical Note:

  • Nicholas Carbone is a retired Commander of the US Navy. He spent a year in Vietnam between 1969 and 1970. He was first assigned to the Phoenix Program, but then was reassigned to Naval Intelligence Liaison Officer (NILO) at Lam Son on the Saigon River. Carbone remained there for the rest of his tour. Carbone worked with the South Vietnamese, and had training in their language. His job was to provide intelligence support to Riverine forces, and did so through a variety of methods to inform US forces of VC and NVA movements. Carbone was never in any major military engagement, but did accompany units on night ambushes, as well as day time operations, periodically. He also went on many reconnaissance missions.

Access Level:

  • Unrestricted

Collection Inventory:

LocationBoxFolderContents
D060.7D11
Personal Narrative re: service as a Naval Intellingence Liason Officer (NILO) in Vietnam from May 1969 to May 1970. (First page in Restricted Access)

Separated Materials:

Museum Objects:2196museum3529- Viet Cong Red Devil Boody Trap Grenade.

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