Keever

Item Set

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• U.S. Airmen inspecting a plane
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", Three US airmen stand under the wing of a plane. They appear to be looking at the door into the cockpit.
• Vietnamese soldiers and villagers
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", a group of Vietnamese men and one American soldier stand looking at the camera. Some of the Vietnamese men are dressed in ARVN uniform and are armed, and others appear to be civilians. In the background, there is a stream, a bridge, and a village with children and adult civilians in it. The village is made up of several large thatched buildings rather than typical small homes, so it may be a strategic hamlet.
• US helicopter and tent in a field
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", photograph of several US helicopters landed in a grass field. A small tent sits next to one of the helicopters.
• American soldier with Vietnamese children
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", An American soldier stands in a crowd of Vietnamese children looking at the camera. There are thatched buildings in the background.
• American soldiers in a landed helicopter
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", Two American men sit in a landed helicopter drinking from flasks. Another American soldier stands in the foreground smoking.
• Vietnamese soldiers and villagers
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", a group of Vietnamese men and one American soldier stand looking at the camera. Some of the Vietnamese men are dressed in ARVN uniform and are armed, and others appear to be civilians. In the background, there is a stream, a bridge, and a village with children and adult civilians in it. The village is made up of several large thatched buildings rather than typical small homes, so it may be a strategic hamlet.
• American helicopters in a field
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", Photo of a large grass plain with seven American helicopters landed in it. Two American soldiers walk by in the foreground.
• American soldier exchanging money
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", an American soldier crouches in front of a box inside a helicopter. He hands something, possibly money, to a soldier standing outside the helicopter. Two pilots sit in the background.
• American soldier exchanging money
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", an American soldier crouches in front of a box inside a helicopter. He hands something, possibly money, to a soldier standing outside the helicopter. Two pilots sit in the background.
• American soldier with Vietnamese children
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", An American soldier stands in a crowd of Vietnamese children looking at the camera. There are thatched buildings in the background.
• American soldiers delivering mail
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", a group of American soldiers crouch next to a landed military helicopter. They look into a bag of mail envelopes.
• American soldiers delivering mail
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bale To", two American soldiers crouch next to a helicopter, looking into a bag of mail envelopes. Two more soldiers are standing and passing an envelope between them. Another soldier crouches in the helicopter, digging through a box.
• American men and plane
  Original caption: "Plei Me - Bak To Oct 65" Three American men are gathered around a plane.
• American soldier gives a puppy to Sacred Heart Orphanage
  Original caption: "Ah, How About a Smile - A new puppy given to the children of the Sacred Heart Orphanage in Da Nang appears somewhat disenchanted with all the attention. Perhaps he would rather be off in some corner chewing on a big bone. Presenting the dog to the children is Marine Lance Corporal William Houllett (Jacksonville, Fla.) a member of the Marine Air Group 16 Crash Crew." An American soldier holds a Vietnamese child in one arm and a puppy in the other. Three more children stand around him.
• USS Enterprise
  Original caption: "The nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise became a member of the U.S Seventh Fleet today. Accompanying her was the nuclear powered guided missile frigate USS Bainbridge." Aerial photo of an aircraft carrier on the open sea.
• Article about American GIs receiving letters from American citizens
  Originial title: "American Students Shower G.I.s with Letters after Anti-War Protest in U.S", article about American GIs receiving letters from American citizens
• Article on the effect of the Vietnam War on communism in Africa and South America
  Original title: "insurgency." Article by Keever about the way that the outcome of the Vietnam War will effect their future wars in Africa and South America against communism
• Article about well-camouflaged tunnels, entrenchments, and foxholes
  Original title: "Tunnel", Keever's title: "'Digging Trenches Is More Important Than Eating,' Communist Defector Reveals of Allies Woes", article about well-camouflaged tunnels, entrenchments, and foxholes
• Coast Guard cutter
  Original caption: "Coast Guard Cutter - Wearing a war zone coat of gray paint over her standard coat of white, the Coast Guard Cutter Point Grey operates on patrol out of An Thoi, Phu Quoc island, in the Gulf of Thailand. Seventeen cutters have been operating as units of the Coastal Surveillance Force since July of 1965, eight in Da Nang and nine in An Thoi." An American Coast Guard ship sailing in a bay.
• American Coast Guardsman administers first aid
  Original caption: "First Aid - A. U.S. Coast Guardsman administers first aid to a Vietnamese civilian junkman during an inspection of his junk in the Gulf of Thailand. Serving as units of the Coastal Surveillance Force, the Coast Guard cutters are presently engaged in preventing in the infiltration by sea of men, arms and supplies for the Viet Cong." An American Coast Guardsmen inspects the wrist of a wet Vietnamese man. He appears to be giving medical treatment. Another Vietnamese man looks on.
• SWIFT boat
  Original caption: "Swift - Capable of speeds in excess of 25 knots, this 50-footer is aptly named the SWIFT. It mounts a twin .50-cal. Machine gun atop the pilot house and carriers a dual-mount combination, .50-cal machine gun and 81mm mortar aft. The first SWIFTS arrived in South Vietnam on Oct. 31, 1965, when they went on patrol out of An Thoi, Phu Quoc Island, as units of the Coastal Surveillance Force, engaged in preventing the infiltration of men, arms and supplies into the country for the Viet Cong." An American motor boat in open water.
• American Coast Guardsmen searching civilian boat cargo
  Original caption: "Cargo Check - A Vietnamese civilian junk is searched by a Vietnamese Navy liaison officer and crewmembers of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter during a patrol in the Gulf of Thailand. The Coast Guard cutters are based at An Thoi, Phu Quoc Island and operate as units of the Coastal Surveillance Force." American Coast Guardsmen have tied a wooden civilian boat to their ship. Some Coast Guardsmen are searching the cargo of the ship while the Vietnamese sailors look on. The civilian ship is flying a South Vietnamese flag.
• SWIFT boat
  Original caption: "Swift - Capable of speeds in excess of 25 knots, this 50-footer is aptly named the SWIFT. It mounts a twin .50-cal. Machine gun atop the pilot house and carriers a dual-mount combination, .50-cal machine gun and 81mm mortar aft. The first SWIFTS arrived in South Vietnam on Oct. 31, 1965, when they went on patrol out of An Thoi, Phu Quoc Island, as units of the Coastal Surveillance Force, engaged in preventing the infiltration of men, arms and supplies into the country for the Viet Cong." An American motor boat in open water.
• Aerial photo of smoke cloud over a train
  Original caption: "Smoke billows from a North Vietnamese train attacked by Seventh Fleet Aircraft from the carrier, USS Midway, May 4 in what a Seventh Fleet spokesman said was probably the most successful armed reconnaissance mission flown to date by naval aircraft over Vietnam. Twenty railroad cars and two locomotives were destroyed and left smoking. The train, headed southward was stopped by downed bridges over North Vietnam Tuesday after conducting three days of in country attacks against Viet Cong concentrations in South Vietnam. Some twelve aircrafts, including A-4 Skyhawks and F-8 Crusaders, participated in the attack, hitting the train with 250 pound bombs, five inch zuni rockets and 20mm gunfire." Aerial photo of a bombed train in a rural area, with a black cloud of smoke rising from it.
• Why Guerrillas Fight So Hard
  Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the tenacity of Việt Cộng fighters, page 12