Military Resources: Vietnam War
NARA Resources
- From the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, "This guide summarizes core holdings on: the war in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos especially during the Nixon and Ford administrations; the flight of refugees from Indochina after April 1975 and the admittance of many to the United States; the accounting of U.S. armed forces MIAs and POWs; and the issue of amnesty/clemency for U.S. draft resisters and military absence offenders."
- Electronic Data Records Relating to Military Objectives and Activities during the Vietnam War
- "This reference report provides an overview of the electronic data records in the custody of the 威尼斯人娱乐场 that contain data related to military objectives and activities during the Vietnam War."
- Marine Corps Command Chronologies for the Vietnam War
- Guide to a series of records that contains documents that describe events that occurred as early as April, 1952.
- An online exhibit presented by the Nixon Presidential Library which deals with President Nixon's decision to initiate a massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam in December, 1972.
- Records of U.S. Military Casualties, Missing in Action, and Prisoners of War from the Era of the Vietnam War
- "Overview of the electronic data records in the custody of the 威尼斯人娱乐场 that relate to U.S. military casualties, missing in action, and prisoners of war from the Vietnam War era."
- Research in Military Records: Vietnam War
- Guide to NARA records relating to the Vietnam War.
- A selection of documents and photographs from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Digital Library.
- State-level Lists of Casualties from the Vietnam War
- NARA's Center for Electronic Records has made these lists available online. Casualty lists for Korean Conflict also available.
- This site is a guide to the material on the Vietnam War that is available at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.
- To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon, the staff of the Ford Presidential Library reviewed for possible declassification nearly 40,000 pages of National Security Adviser files.
- Collection of photographs of Vietnam War meetings held by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
Other Resources
- Bibliography maintained by the Air University Library.
- This PBS site includes a brief history and a timeline, along with sections on guerilla tactics, the air war, and Khe Sanh.
- Michael Jay Friedman's essay from Essays in History published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia.
- DPMO is the Department of Defense office that oversees and manages POW/MIA issues. This site dealing with POW/MIAs of the Vietnam War provides information about DPMO's activities, fact sheets, statistics, and lists of POW/MIAs arranged by name, state, and branch of service.
- Part of the Library of Congress's Veterans History Project, this site contains interviews of men and women who served in Vietnam.
- U.S. Army Center Center of Military History site that provides the names of Medal of Honor recipients and the actions that are commemorated.
- This online exhibit is presented by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. It is divided into four chapters: The First Steps, Fighting the War, American POWs in Vietnam, and Honoring the Dead. It is also available as a .
- Gettysburg College's Special Collections Division of Musselman Library presents this exhibit of photographs and text which were bequeathed to the college by Stephen H. Warner upon his death in Vietnam in 1971. Mr. Warner was a student at Gettysburg College from 1964-1968.
- Extensive subject-based bibliography on the Vietnam War maintained by Edwin E. Moise.
- This database from the University of Washington Libraries contains leaflets and newspapers that were distributed on the University of Washington campus during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s.
- This collection of maps is presented by the United States Military Academy at West Point Department of History.
- A video lecture from the Khan Academy.
- Comprehensive collection of links to information about the Vietnam War.
- This site from Vassar College includes documents held by Vietnamese archives in Hanoi.