Vietnam War Archive

Into sunlight they marched,
Into dog day, into no saints day,
And were cut down.
They marched without knowing
How the air would be sucked from their lungs,
How their lungs would collapse,
How the world would twist itself, would
Bend into the cruel angle.

Into the black understanding they marched
Until the angels came
Calling their names,
Until they rose, one by one from the blood.
The light blasted down on them.
The bullets sliced through the razor grass
So there was not even time to speak.
The words would not let themselves be spoken.
Some of them died.
Some of them were not allowed to.

—Bruce Weigl

Documentary Videos

White House Phone Recordings

Who Spoke Up?

Humphrey Memo to Johnson Feb 17, 1965

Anti-War Protests, Buttons and Stickers

The Photographers

Documents Related to the Vietnam War

The Nightly News

Life Magazine Coverage of the Vietnam War 1947 – 1975

My Lai

Studs Terkel and Noam Chomsky Jan 19, 1970

Studs Terkel and Alfred McCoy 1971 part 1

Studs Terkel and Alfred McCoy 1971 Part 2

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia – Alfred McCoy (full text)

The Enemy Is In Your Hands – Soldier’s Nine Rules Pocket Card

Tropic Lightning News 1966-1971, 25th Infantry Newspaper

Entertaining the Troops – Radio, Television, USO

War Timeline

Glossary of Military Terms

Author’s Book Collection on Vietnam Wars

Vietnam Today – Photo Archive @ Terragalleria

Other Historical Timelines of interest

Author’s Vietnam War Essays:

Introduction: Essential Context

Introduction: Effects of Geography and Climate

Chapter 1 – Early History of Vietnam, Nam Viet to Gia Long

Chapter 2 – The 19th Century, Colonialism Comes to Vietnam

Chapter 3 – Early 20th Century to World War II

Chapter 4 – The World War II Years

Chapter 5 – French Indochina War, Early Years (1946 – 1950)

Chapter 6 – French Indochina War, Meat Grinder War (1951 – 1953)

Chapter 7 – French Indochina War, Dien Bien Phu (1953 – 1954)

Chapter 8 – Geneva 1954 and the Rise of Ngo Dinh Diem

Conclusion – Thoughts on the War’s Legacy

Vietnam War – Final Statistics

Vietnam War Snapshots:

Snapshot: Three Stages of Mao’s Revolutionary Warfare

Snapshot: The OSS and Ho Chi Minh, 1945

Snapshot: French Defeats Along RC 4, Fall 1950

Snapshot: Battle of Mao Khe, March 23-28 1951

Snapshot: French Armed Forces in Vietnam, 1945-1954

Snapshot: The French Groupement Mobile 100

Snapshot: The Geneva Conference 1954

Snapshot: Diem Survives Coup Attempt, 1962

Snapshot: Battle of Ap Bac, January 2, 1963

Snapshot: Vietnamization and ARVN’s Identity Crisis

Snapshot: Cambodian Coup, March 1970

Snapshot: Cambodia, Kent State and the Kissinger Question

Snapshot: Easter Offensive, 1972

Snapshot: Limited Vs. Total War

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One response to “Vietnam War Archive

  1. ashley c hobbs

    lost my brother who I was with everyday god might as well took my live also he was like father who raised me also his two children my brother gave his live to the military and left me upside down with his two children and his wife

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