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 Finding Aid: Joseph Ponder Collection Item Number: 2470000000

Individual Collection
Location: Individual Collections-P; Cold Storage Vault


Scope & Content:

  • Less than one linear foot of transcripts, articles, citations, correspondence and an audio-tape document Joseph Ponder's tour of duty with the US Navy during the Vietnam Conflict.

Access Level:

  • Unrestricted

Collection Inventory:

LocationBoxFolderContents
Ind. Coll. - P11
Transcript of Tape Recording of VC Ambush on 5 Swift Boats on the Song Bo De River on 24 November 1968.
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Article: Woods, Randy "VC Gunners Pounce on Cruising Swift Boats" Pacific Stars and Stripes
3
Article: "Chicagoan Tells Cong Ambush" Chicago Tribune 26 November 1968
4
Citations for Joseph Ponder, Harold Hart, and Richard Trussoni.
5
Correspondence with Admiral Zumwalt
6
Pictures and articles about Ponder's injuries, and Nguyen Charlie cartoons
7
Article: Sponholtz, Anne. “Veteran's Search a Success” Florida Times-Union 23 May 1998, 10.

Separated Materials:

Audio:247AU0095: Viet Cong Ambush 5 U.S. Navy Swift Boats on the Song Bo De River on November 24, 1968.

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