Checking ship manifest for Operation Handclasp

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-03393
Title: Checking ship manifest for Operation Handclasp
Description: Original caption: "Lieutenant Commander Philip W. Koehler, USN, of the Navy Section, MAAG Vietnam, checks a manifest list with Lieutenant Nguyen Thanh Nhan of Vietnamese Naval Headquarters as the first shipment of Operation Handclasp gift clothing if off-loaded at Saigon. The clothing was collected by U.S. Navy men and their families in Hawaii and will be distributed by the Vietnamese Navy to villagers in the Ca Mau peninsula." An American sailor and a Vietnamese sailor stand together on a dock on next to a truck. They look at a piece of paper together.
Date: 1968, approximately
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Navy; Sailors; Vietnam (Republic). Quân lực; Docks; Military trucks
Location: South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6297
Size: 8 x 10 cm
Container: B148, F18
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Navy
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
Copyright Information: These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
Publisher: Archives & Special Collections
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