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Tet Offensive: Finding Aids
Finding Aids describe whole collections, usually including a box or folder level inventory of the documents. They are a good way to quickly find large caches of documents on a single subject. To find individual documents, search the Virtual Archive https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/ using the keywords suggested on the introduction page.
Below is a list of finding aids and collection descriptions. Click on Open Finding Aid to view the complete finding aid.
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Analysis of the Offensive
- Collection #039
- Contemporary Historical Examination of Current Operations (CHECO) Reports of Southeast Asia (1961-1975)
- Collection Size: 1.5 ft.
- Project CHECO was begun in 1962 under the direction of the Air Force chief of staff to compile, document, analyze, and report on a timely basis the new tactics, forces, techniques, materials and methods being employed by the Air Force in Southeast Asia. Project CHECO consists of 232 reports covering... (more)
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- Collection #044
- William Colby Collection
- Collection Size: 7.3 ft.
- The William Colby Collection consists of material collected by Mr. Colby during his tenure in Vietnam as a member of the US embassy and of CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support) and after his duty as Director of the CIA. This is a period from approximately 1960 to 1972 that r... (more)
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- Collection #1525
- Ogden Williams Collection (USOM/Office of Rural Affairs, Saigon)
- Collection Size: 5.0 ft.
- Approximately five linear feet of photographs, negatives, slides, museum objects, Ogden Williams' personal files, correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, Vietnamese currency, essays, Chieu Hoi material, and an oral history interview by Harry Maurer with Ogden Williams document Ogden ... (more)
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- Collection #177
- Douglas Pike Collection: Other Manuscripts - Accuracy in Media
- Collection Size: 3.0 ft.
- Documents the development of a 'Television's Vietnam' (1985), a two-part video documentary on the role of media in the Vietnam War. The film began as an independent production by Dr. Peter C. Rollins, an English professor at Oklahoma State, and two colleagues, Dr. Charles Townsend Ludington, Jr. and... (more)
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- Collection #179
- Douglas Pike Collection: Other Manuscripts - Ellsworth Bunker Papers
- Collection Size: 2.0 ft.
- Description (Excerpt from Douglas Pike's Introduction in The Bunker Papers): When President Lyndon Johnson, in the spring of 1967, asked Ellsworth Bunker to become his ambassador in Saigon, then the largest and in some ways most important American embassy in the world, Bunker stipulated as one of... (more)
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- Collection #237
- Douglas Pike Collection: Unit 09 - Graphics
- Collection Size: 18.0 ft.
- The Graphics Collection comprises of printed graphic material documenting the various aspects of culture and society in Vietnam before, during and after the conflict. The material covers military, political, diplomatic, social and cultural aspects in Vietnam, and to a lesser extent, Southeast Asia... (more)
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- Collection #266
- Herbert Schandler Collection
- Collection Size: 1.6 ft.
- The collection consists of documents and articles authored by Herbert Schandler and reviews of his materials; moving images; books; Congressional records; pamphlets; teaching materials; conference materials; and reports. The collection documents Herbert Schandler's service in the U.S. military durin... (more)
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- Collection #516
- Vietnam Magazine Collection
- Collection Size: 0.3 ft.
- Original and revised manuscripts included in Vietnam Magazine, 2001-2003. (more)
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- Collection #2054
- Ervin J. Fischer, Jr. Collection
- Short story and printed photographs discuss Ervin J. Fischer, Jr.'s experiences as part of a C-130 crew during the Tet Offensive and the siege of Khe Sanh in 1968. (more)
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- Collection #2116
- Di Tonthat Collection
- Collection Size: 0.1 ft.
- Copy of an article from the March 2008 issue of The Atlantic Times written by Dr. Uwe Siemon-Netto describes the 1968 Hue Massacre during the Tet Offensive. (more)
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- Collection #2259
- Robert Cook Collection
- Collection Size: 0.2 ft.
- 'Amgrunt Memory: A Recollection of the Tet Offensive of 1968' documents a firefight that Robert Cook was involved in on 20 January 1968 while he was stationed near the DMZ with his Marine rifle platoon that was attached to the 1st Amtrac Battalion. (more)
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- Collection #280
- Donald L. Swafford Collection
- Collection Size: 0.2 ft.
- Less than one linear foot of correspondence, a biographical sketch, photographs and slides, books, and miscellaneous artifacts document Donald L. Swafford's USMC training and service from 1966 thru January 1970. Correspondence and images all date from his war service and describe Swafford's experien... (more)
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- Collection #856
- LT. COL Kaye H. Biggar Collection
- Collection Size: 0.3 ft.
- Twenty-one pages of printed photographs, including extensive captions and assorted copies of articles printed from the Internet document Kaye Biggar's military service in Vietnam. The photographs include images of Saigon in 1968, MACV Headquarters, US Agency for International Development office in S... (more)
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- Collection #034
- J. Thomas Burch Collection
- Collection Size: 1.0 ft.
- The J. Thomas Burch Papers consist of one linear foot of material which centers on Burch's tour of duty in Vietnam as a Captain in the U.S. Army's Special Forces, most of which is correspondence. Two folders contain a photocopy of Burch's diary, which is a handwritten daily account of the author's ... (more)
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- Collection #1190
- William McCall Collection
- Collection Size: 0.5 ft.
- Twenty-one reels (approximately 2700 feet) of Super 8 Film document air operations conducted by the 604th Air Commando Squadron in and around the Bien Hoa Air Base from July, 1967, through May 1969. (more)
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- Collection #1356
- Doris Linebarger Collection (Air America Association)
- Newspaper clippings and thirty-six 8mm film reels document the Air America career of James Linebarger, 1967-1968. Film includes footage of Hong Kong, Singapore, Phnom Penh (Cambodia), and in South Vietnam: Saigon , Dalat, Nha Trang, and the 1968 Tet Offensive . (more)
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- Collection #1368
- Ron Leonard Collection
- Photocopies of After Action Reports, Operational Reports - Lessons Learned, Army Aircraft Accident Reports, and Daily Staff Journals from the 25th Infantry Division collected by Ron Leonard from 1966 to 1970. Collection also contains an essay by Ron Leonard entitled Mole City; a World Affairs file f... (more)
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- Collection #1460
- Pat Clifton Collection
- Slides, photographs, DVD and documents that document Colonel Pat Clifton's service in Vietnam from September 1967 through September 1968. (more)
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- Collection #1825
- Theodore R. Kramer Collection
- Collection Size: 0.1 ft.
- Less than one linear foot of documents comprised of a photocopy of the Watch Officer's Log kept at the Navy Operations Center of the COMNAVFORV Staff in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. (more)
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- Collection #2160
- Shannon Lancaster Collection
- Collection Size: 0.5 ft.
- Less than one linear foot of slides, photographs, and artifacts document Shannon Lancaster's service with the 509th Radio Research Group (RRG) in Vietnam, September 1967 - October 1969. (more)
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- Collection #2303
- Dennis Hackin Collection
- Collection Size: 0.1 ft.
- CD-ROM contains Morning Reports and Daily Officer Logs for Charlie Company, 1st Battalion (Mechanized), 5th Infantry, 1967-1968. (more)
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