keever - 1967

Item Set

Items

• Troop levels research notes
  Keever's handwritten research notes on the status and casualties of US troops
• Aerial photo of Tram Bac OII Storage Area
  Original caption: "Aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard in the Gulf of Tonkin. This series of six pictures shows the Tram Bac OII Storage Area, located about six miles west of Haiphong in North Vietnam, exploding after pilots from this 7th Fleet attack aircraft carrier destroyed the site with 500-pound bombs. The Photographs were made by a camera mounted in a Navy A4E Skyhawk jet at an altitude of 3,000 feet on July 7 pilot of the aircraft, LTJG Billy W. Putnam, 27, of Winston Salem, N.C., reported seeing several secondary fires and smoke cover the target after the attack. Bombers were from attack squadrons 76 and 212." Aerial photo of a river in a rural area. A bomb is going off on one of the banks.
• Aerial photo of Tram Bac OII Storage Area
  Original caption: "Aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard in the Gulf of Tonkin. This series of six pictures shows the Tram Bac OII Storage Area, located about six miles west of Haiphong in North Vietnam, exploding after pilots from this 7th Fleet attack aircraft carrier destroyed the site with 500-pound bombs. The Photographs were made by a camera mounted in a Navy A4E Skyhawk jet at an altitude of 3,000 feet on July 7 pilot of the aircraft, LTJG Billy W. Putnam, 27, of Winston Salem, N.C., reported seeing several secondary fires and smoke cover the target after the attack. Bombers were from attack squadrons 76 and 212." Aerial photo of a river in a rural area. A bomb appears to be going off on one of the banks.
• Aerial photo of Tram Bac OII Storage Area
  Original caption: "Aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard in the Gulf of Tonkin. This series of six pictures shows the Tram Bac OII Storage Area, located about six miles west of Haiphong in North Vietnam, exploding after pilots from this 7th Fleet attack aircraft carrier destroyed the site with 500-pound bombs. The Photographs were made by a camera mounted in a Navy A4E Skyhawk jet at an altitude of 3,000 feet on July 7 pilot of the aircraft, LTJG Billy W. Putnam, 27, of Winston Salem, N.C., reported seeing several secondary fires and smoke cover the target after the attack. Bombers were from attack squadrons 76 and 212." Aerial photo of a river in a rural area.
• Aerial photo of Tram Bac OII Storage Area
  Original caption: "Aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard in the Gulf of Tonkin. This series of six pictures shows the Tram Bac OII Storage Area, located about six miles west of Haiphong in North Vietnam, exploding after pilots from this 7th Fleet attack aircraft carrier destroyed the site with 500-pound bombs. The Photographs were made by a camera mounted in a Navy A4E Skyhawk jet at an altitude of 3,000 feet on July 7 pilot of the aircraft, LTJG Billy W. Putnam, 27, of Winston Salem, N.C., reported seeing several secondary fires and smoke cover the target after the attack. Bombers were from attack squadrons 76 and 212." Aerial photo of a river in a rural area. A bomb appears to be going off on one of the banks.
• Aerial photo of Tram Bac OII Storage Area
  Original caption: "Aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard in the Gulf of Tonkin. This series of six pictures shows the Tram Bac OII Storage Area, located about six miles west of Haiphong in North Vietnam, exploding after pilots from this 7th Fleet attack aircraft carrier destroyed the site with 500-pound bombs. The Photographs were made by a camera mounted in a Navy A4E Skyhawk jet at an altitude of 3,000 feet on July 7 pilot of the aircraft, LTJG Billy W. Putnam, 27, of Winston Salem, N.C., reported seeing several secondary fires and smoke cover the target after the attack. Bombers were from attack squadrons 76 and 212." Aerial photo of a river in a rural area.
• Aerial photo of Tram Bac OII Storage Area
  Original caption: "Aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard in the Gulf of Tonkin. This series of six pictures shows the Tram Bac OII Storage Area, located about six miles west of Haiphong in North Vietnam, exploding after pilots from this 7th Fleet attack aircraft carrier destroyed the site with 500-pound bombs. The Photographs were made by a camera mounted in a Navy A4E Skyhawk jet at an altitude of 3,000 feet on July 7 pilot of the aircraft, LTJG Billy W. Putnam, 27, of Winston Salem, N.C., reported seeing several secondary fires and smoke cover the target after the attack. Bombers were from attack squadrons 76 and 212." Aerial photo of a river in a rural area.
• Aerial photo of Hai Duong
  Original caption: "A surface to air missile is fired against U.S. Navy aircraft in the vicinity of Hai Duong, North Vietnam, the missile was fired from a heavily populated area. No damage was inflicted upon the navy aircraft as the SAM exploded prematurely over the city of Hai Duong." Aerial photo of a city, with a missile seen in the top of the frame.
• Bulldozer clearing jungle
  Original caption: "Dozers in the Jungle - Clearing the thick Jungle of the Iron Triangle, bulldozers of the 1st Inf. Div. 1st Engineer Bn remove the protective foliage that has made the area a Viet Cong sanctuary for years. Much of the success of the multi-divisional Operation CEDAR FALLS is due to the use of modern methods and equipment which allied forces have at their disposal in Vietnam." US soldiers drive bulldozers in the jungle.
• U.S. Air Force SC-123 Provider
  Original caption: "Saigon - Junction City Support - Air Force troop-cargo carrier crews flying C-123 Provider aircraft aid in providing the massive airlift support needed to transport troops and supplies for Operation Junction City. On Feb. 23, the Provider crews were directly responsible for air-dropping more than one million pounds of cargo and 750 paratroopers into Tay Nihn Province while supporting the huge operation." A US Air Force airplane in flight. The photo seems to be taken from the rear hatch of another plane.
• Military background research notes
  Original title: "Mil. Backgrd. Dec/ 67. (for 2pt Series)." Research notes of background information on the U.S. military
• US perspective research notes
  Keever's research notes for her article, "Allied POV", about the perspective of the US on the Vietnam War
• F-8 Crusader taking off
  Original caption: "An F-8 Crusader, mounted with sophisticated aerial photographic equipping underneath its fuselage, is launched from the attack aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard in Tonkin Gulf. Photographs taken by this supersonic jet will provide pilots with reconnaissance data on military targets in North Vietnam." Navy plane taking off from an aircraft carrier.
• Note to Sam Schreiner detailing river warfare article
  Note attached to letter to Sam Schreiner of The Reader's Digest from Keever detailing "River Warfare" articles
• Letter to Sam Schreiner detailing "River Warfare" articles
  Letter to Sam Schreiner of The Reader's Digest from Keever detailing "River Warfare" articles
• Aerial photo of bomb craters on Yen Vien railroad classification yard
  Original caption: "Bomb craters cover the Yen Vien railroad classification yard, 10 km (6 miles) east-northeast of Hanoi, in this picture take by an Air force reconnaissance pilot. The complex was hit Aug. 21, by F-105 Thunderchief pilots and F-4 Phantom crews of the 355th and 8th Tactical Fighter Wings. Numerous boxcars were wrecked and the center of the yard torn up. Numerous unit-aircraft artillery sites surround the rail facility." Aerial photo with white line around a group of buildings and a railway. The area is pocked with bomb craters.
• Letter to T. L. Blau on photographs and articles
  Letter from Keever to T. L. Blau, from Camera Press, Ltd., concerning photographs and potential articles.
• Pilot Richard Nelson
  Original caption: "Lieutenant Junior Grade Richard Nelson of Sarasota, Fla., a pilot with fighter Squadron 194, was credited Apr. 20 with silencing a surface-to-air missile (SAM) site while on a mission over North Vietnam. Nelson was among U.S. Seventh Fleet carrier-based aviators who struck two thermal power plants in Haiphong. The multi-wave air strikes by the naval aircraft caused sever damage to the facilities, which together produced 17,000 kilowatts of electricity. "I saw some SAMs coming up through the overcast, but they caused no trouble," Nelson explained after returning from the strike. 'I saw SAM site through a hole in the clouds and there were puffs of dust around it, showing that missiles had just been fired. So I went down and put a batch of rockets right in the center of the site. They all went right where I wanted them and really tore things up.'" An American airman climbing into what may be the cockpit of a plane. He looks directly at the camera.
• Patrol boats research notes
  Keever's handwritten research notes about US Patrol Boats and riverine warfare in Vietnam
• Patrol boats and riverine warfare research notes
  Scattered typed notes about US Patrol Boats and riverine warfare in Vietnam
• Airmen Raymond T. Schalk and James E. Foster maintain the gun on a Skyraider
  Original caption: "Nha Trang - Gun Maintenance - Air force gun mechanics A.1.C. Raymond T. Schalk of Victorville, Calif., (left) and A.1.C James E. foster of Lake Park, Ga., clear a malfunctioning 20-millimeter cannon of an A-1E Skyraider. Gun maintenance is one of the first operations performed in readying a Skyraider for its next combat mission against Viet Cong forces." Two US airmen repair the wing of an Air Force jet.
• Robert M. Hafner checking plane engine
  Original caption: "Nha Trang - Engine Check - Checking the engine of an Air Force A-1E Skyraider for cracks or leaks which might bring about engine failure is A.2.C. Robert M. Hafner of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Engines are checked closely after all flights to determine if combat damage has been done or if normal maintenance is needed." US airman repairs or checks the engine of a plane.
• Airmen Emerson C. Price, Robert V. Arbuckle, and Landon S. White talk about A-1E Skyraider performance
  Original caption: "Nha Trang - Conference - First step in turning Air Force planes around for combat is discussions of maintenance discrepancies and performance. Line chief M. Sgt. Emerson C. Price of Absecon, N.J. (left) pilot, Maj. Robert V. Arbuckle of Greenville, Ky., (center) and A.1.C. Landon S. White of Memphis, Tenn., crew chief, talk about performance of an A-1E Skyraider following a combat mission." Three US airmen look at paperwork in binders near the wing of an airplane.
• U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofort dropping bombs
  Original caption: "Saigon - Bombers Strike - Air Force B-52 Stratoforts flying miles above their targets unload tons of bombs on enemy stronghold and heavily fortified positions, softening them up for friendly ground troops. The B-52s have increased the number of their daily raids, hitting as many as six enemy targets in a single day. The eight-engine Air Force bombers have impaired the enemy's ability to build-up and launch ground offensives in South Vietnam." A US Air Force jet flying above the clouds and dropping bombs.
• U.S. Air Force O-1E Bird Dog
  Original caption: "Saigon - VC Seeker - An Air Force O-1E Bird Dog spotter aircraft flies over rugged terrain in South Vietnam seeking out Viet Cong hiding places and storage areas. The forward air controller (FAC) will find the targets; get official permission to hit the target; direct the tactical air strikes and report the bomb damage assessment." An American Air Force plane flies above a jungle.