Vietnamese woman wins a radio for having the cleanest house in the Dong Tre refugee center

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derivative filename/jpeg: 363-02644.jpg
Digital Object Identifier: 363-02644
Title: Vietnamese woman wins a radio for having the cleanest house in the Dong Tre refugee center
Description: Original caption: "Tuy Hoa, Vietnam - Second Lieutenant Frank Corrado of Chicago, Illinois, a Civil Affairs Officer attached to the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division presents a radio to a Vietnamese woman for having the cleanest house in the Dong Tre refugee center near Tuy Hoa as village and district officials look on. The "Clean Up" program was initiated by the Brigade Civic Action personnel to better the living conditions of the refugee center on a monthly basis by offering prizes to the villagers. Other prizes of clean up kits were awarded to the next fifteen cleanest houses." An American soldier hands a Vietnamese woman a radio. A group of 5 Vietnamese men stand around them, some holding boxes. There is a corrugated iron shack in the background.
Date: 1965-1968, approximately
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Army; Awards; Women; Refugee camps; Soldiers; House cleaning; Radio--Receivers and reception
Location: Tuy Hòa, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 13.1057; 109.2950
Size: 15 x 22 cm
Container: B146, F4
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Army
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher: Archives & Special Collections