Keever

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• 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
• Vietnam Report I: Witty Guerrillas Fight So Hard
  Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the reasons behind the tenacity of the Việt Cộng, page 12
• Viet Cong's 'Kill' List: U.S. Advisers at Top
  Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the hit list of the Việt Cộng, page 12
• What's a nice girl like Beverly Deepe doing in a dirty war like this?
  Inset advertisement published in the New York Herald Tribune announcing that Beverly Keever would be writing as a Vietnam War correspondent, page 8
• Dominican Republic Vs. Domino Theory
  First of a seven article series called "Why Vietnam" analyzing the importance of the Vietnam War in world politics. This article focuses on Domino Theory, for the New York Herald Tribune
• Communism: The New Reality
  Second of a seven article series called "Why Vietnam" analyzing the importance of the Vietnam War in world politics. This article focuses on communism and ideology, for the New York Herald Tribune
• Fifth article in the "Why Vietnam" series
  Fifth of a seven article series called "Why Vietnam" analyzing the importance of the Vietnam War in world politics. This article focuses on South Vietnamese government corruption, for the New York Herald Tribune
• Article about Việt Cộng land redistribution
  Original title: "series", Keever's title: "Land Reform Needed but Negligible in South Vietnam", article about Việt Cộng troops taking lands from landowners and giving it away to peasants, article 6 of 7 article series
• Article about why soldiers are willing to die for the Communist cause
  Original title: "COMMUNISM: THE NEW REALITY", Keever's title: "Why do the Viet Cong Fight So Hard? 'They Associate with the Peasants, Fighting Oppression, not only Against Foreigners, But also the Upper-Classes Within Society'", article about the dedication and fervor of the Việt Cộng troops, article 2 of 7 series
• Article about the South Vietnamese and American difficulty in fighting Communist ideology
  Original title: "series", Keever's title: "Communist Subversion Likened to 'a War of Silhouttes and Shadows. You Strike at the Man but hit only his Silhouuette'", article about the South Vietnamese and American governments' difficulty in fighting the Communist ideology, article 1 of 7 article series
• Article about criticism by South Vietnamese officials of United States policy
  Original title: "series", Keever's title: "'With all the Money You Are Spending in the Military Field, You Cold Buy All the Land from the Landowners and Give it to the Peasants', Vietnamese Major Says about U.S. Policy", article about criticism by South Vietnamese officials of United States policy that focused on war and not on public opinion, article 3 of 7-part series
• Article about American advisors' desire for government reforms
  Original title: "THE MONOPOLY SAME", Keever's title: "U.S. Military Machine Rests on Vietnam's Political Quicksand", article about American advisors telling President Ng� ?�nh Di?m that unless he radically reformed his government, he would undoubtedly be overthrown by a coup d'etat, article 4 of 7-article series
• Article about corruption in the South Vietnamese government
  Original title: "Series", Keever's itle: "Hotest Political Issue in Saigon? Corruption", article about corruption in the South Vietnamese government, article 5 of 7 article series
• American soldier in a hammock
  An American soldier is relaxing in a hammock, while two other soldiers talk to him. A forest military camp is in the background.
• American soldier near trench
  An American soldier is near a small open trench. There is also a hole with sandbags which appears to have a wooden cover. There is a forest in the background.