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Frequently Asked Questions: SOC.HISTORY.WAR.VIETNAM
The FAQ on the Vietnam Related Internet Resources was compiled by John
Tegtmeier.
This is a listing of Vietnam related Internet sites, most reachable
through the World Wide Web. Because of the extreme fluidity of the
web, in particular, and internet, in general, we can not guarantee the
current accuracy of all the sites listed (especially the smaller
ones). Please be cautious about sites whose address wraps to a second
line. This listingdoes not imply any endorsement of the sites listed,
or is it in any fashion "complete". Additions or corrections are
welcome by E-mail to vietnam-request@panix.com.
All the resources listed in this FAQ are available by links at the
SHWV Internet Resources FAQ Links page at:
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/link-faq.html
Sites are grouped in the following categories:
I. The Best of the Internet Vietnam Related Websites
II. Articles Relating to the Indochina wars
III. Bibliographies
IV. Documents
V. Publications, Book Reviews and Announcements, Book Sellers
VI. Research Libraries and Archives
VII. General Sites
VIII. POW-MIA Sites and Articles
IX. Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
X. Veteran Pages - Groups
XI. Veteran Pages - Individual
XII. Unit Associations
XIII. PTSD, Agent Orange and Health Related Issues
XIV. Vietnam War Memorials
XV. Governmental Sites
XVI. Pictures and Images
XVII. Vietnamese Overseas Community
XVIII.Vietnam Today
I. The Best of the Internet Vietnam Related Websites
Soc.history.war.vietnam Home Pages.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwvushp.html or
http://mulder.waite.adelaide.edu.au/vietnam/welcome.html
This is the newsgroup's homepage, containing information
about soc.history.war.vietnam, as well as hyperlinks to SHWV
resources and many other Vietnam related sites
CACF Search
http://www.sersoft.com/vietnam/
A site that allows for the search of the Combat Area
Casualty File database by Tom Holloway. These are essentially
the names on "The Wall".
National Center For PTSD (White River Junction, VT)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/ptsd/
This site includes a link (telnet) to the remarkable PILOTS
(Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress) database
as well as other traumatic stress sites. PILOTS contains over
8,000 records - each containing a bibliographic citation,
abstract, and indexing data. Access to the database is free of
charge, and no account or password is required. See the telnet
section of this list for more information
Viet Nam Generation and Sixties-l
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties
Back issues of the journal (downloadable) along with access
to the sixties-l archives, other material.
Vietnam Veterans Home Page
http://www.vietvet.org or http://grunt.space.swri.edu
This site provides links to most of the other Vietnam
related sites listed below, plus lists, organizations, images,
narratives and fiction. In short, just about everything. A truly
excellent site. Maintained by Bill McBride and others.
II. Articles Relating to the Indochina Wars
John Baky: White Cong and Black Clap: The Ambient Truth of Vietnam War
Legendry
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/
Texts/Scholarly/Baky_White_Cong_01.html
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
At the Vietnam Generation site.
Peter Brush: Civic Action: The Marine Corps Experience in Vietnam
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/
Texts/Scholarly/Brush_CAP_01.html
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
At the Vietnam Generation site.
Peter Brush: "Home is Where You Dig It": Observations on Life at the
Khe Sanh Combat Base
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/
Texts/Scholarly/Brush_Rats.html
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November
1992). At the Vietnam Generation site.
Peter Brush: The Khe Sanh Veterans' Reunion
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/
Narrative/Brush_Reunion.html">
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (March 1994).At
the Vietnam Generation site.
Peter Brush: Tour Bus at the Khe Sanh Combat Base
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/
Narrative/Brush_Khe_Sanh_cover.html">
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (March 1994).
At the Vietnam Generation site.
William Crandell: What Did America Learn from the Winter Soldier
Investigation
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/
Narrative/Crandell_Winter.html
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 5: 1-4 (March 1994).
At the Vietnam Generation site.
Cecil B. Curry: An Officer and a Gentleman: General Vo Nguyen Giap as
Military Man and Poet
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/
Scholarly/Currey_Giap.html
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 5: 1-4 (March 1994).
At the Vietnam Generation site.
Cecil B. Curry: Residual Dioxin in Viet Nam
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/
Scholarly/Currey_Dioxin.html
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November
1992). At the Vietnam Generation site.
Anthony O. Edmonds: The Tet Offensive and Middletown: A Study in
Contradiction
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/
Scholarly/Edmonds_Tet.html
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
At the Vietnam Generation site.
Anthony O. Edmonds: The Viet Nam War and the British Student Left: A
Study in Political Symbolism
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/
Scholarly/Edmonds_Brit_Left.html
Essay published in Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
At the Vietnam Generation site.
Marc J. Gilbert: Lock and Load High School: The Vietnam War Comes to a
Los Angeles Secondary School
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Scholarl
y/Gilbert_Lock_Load_01.html Essay published in
Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994). At the Vietnam
Generation site.
Edwin E. Moise: Tonkin Gulf Incident. A SHWV FAQ
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/tonk-faq.html
A concise analysis, with bibliography, of the events in the
Tonkin Gulf in August 1964 that led to direct US combat
involvement.
D. Gareth Porter: The 1968 "Hue Massacre"
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/hue-port.txt
Highly controversial version of the events in Hue in Feb.
and Mar. 1968, published in Indochina Chronicle, No.
33 of June 24, 1974. Porter's argument concerning the Hue
Massacre is basically that it was nothing more than US/SVN
propaganda. Posted to SHWV by Grover Furr with the author's
permission.
Brian Ross: Use of Armoured Vehicles. A SHWV FAQ
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/arm-faq.html
A discussion of the use of armored vehicles by all sides in
the Vietnam War.
Brian Ross: Australian Order of Battle. A SHWV FAQ
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/aoob-faq.html
An article discussing the Order of Battle of the Australian
forces in the Vietnam War.
Brian Ross: Australian Military Involvement. A SHWV FAQ
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/aust1faq.html
An analysis by Brian Ross of the military aspects of
Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
Brian Ross: Australian Political Involvement. A SHWV FAQ
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/aust2faq.html
An analysis by Brian Ross of the political dimensions of
Australia's involve in the Vietnam War.
Martin Tingley. Tiger Stripe Camouflage in Vietnam.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/ts-camo.txt
Aa article posted to SHWV dealing with the evolution of
tiger striped camouflage uniforms in Vietnam.
Martin Tingley. "Tunnel Rats: Non Gratum Anus Rodentum. 'Not Worth a
Rats Ass!'."
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/tun-rats.txt
An article posted to SHWV concerning the deployment and
deployment of "tunnel rats", US soldiers especially trained to
penetrate NLF tunnel systems.
Martin Tingley. Work horse, the M113 APC.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/m113apc.txt
An article posted to SHWV dealing with the evolution and use
of the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC)
Sedgwick Tourison. Military Intelligence in Southeast Asia, 1970-1975.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/misea-st.txt
Paper posted by the author to SHWV.
III. Bibliographies
SHWV Recommended Reading List
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/rrl-faq.html
An extensive recommended reading list, including a core list
and many different aspects of the Indochina Wars and their
aftermath. For more information, send e-mail to: John Tegtmeier,
Moderator - SHWV at vietnam-request@panix.com
Prof. Edwin E. Moise's General Bibiliography
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/bibliography.html/
Posted to SHWV in May 1995, and now revised and maintained
on Prof. Moise's own page at Clemson, this is an extremely
comprehensive bibliography dealing with all aspects of the
Indochina Wars compiled by a professor of history at Clemson
University who both teachs and writes on the subject. Prof.
Moise is also a co-moderator of this newsgroup.
Brian Ross's Australian Involvement Bibliography
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/aust-bib.html
Specialized bibliographic resource on the Australian
involvement in the Vietnam War by one of the SHWV newsgroup's
co-moderators, Brian Ross. It appeared in the
soc.history.war.vietnam in September, 1995.
Prof. Lydia M. Fish's Folklore Bibliography
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/folk-bib.html
A specialized bibliography dedicated to the folkore and US
veteran folksongs of the Vietnam War. Prof. Fish is the director
of the Vietnam Veteran Oral History and Folklore Project at
Buffalo State College. For more information on the Project,
e-mail Dr. Fish at fishlm@snybufaa.cs.snybuf.edu. It appeared in
the soc.history.war.vietnam in August, 1995.
My Lai Bibliography
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/mylaibib.html
Short specialized bibliographic reference to works that deal
with the My Lai massacre of March 1968.
US Veterans Post-service Mortality Bibliography
http: //www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/suic-bib.html
Short specialized bibliographic reference to material
concerning US veterans suicide and post-service mortality
rates.
Ver Kuile Ager's Riverine Operations Bibliography
http://www.vietvet.org/booklist.htm
At the Vietnam Veterans Home Page.
Sandra Wittman - Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
http://www.oakton.edu/~wittman/
Ms. Wittman's page contains a number of Vietnam related
bibliography files. These include:
http://www.oakton.edu/~wittman/nfiction.html - Non-Fiction
http://www.oakton.edu/~wittman/fiction.html -Fiction
http://www.oakton.edu/~wittman/film.html - Films
http://www.oakton.edu/~wittman/women.html - Vietnam: The Women's
Experience
http://www.oakton.edu/~wittman/vietpov.html - The Vietnam War:
The Vietnamese Point of View
IV. Documents
Tonkin Gulf Message and Resolution
gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Gov/US-History/Vietnam/tonkin-gulf
Full text of President Johnson's message to the Congress
about the Tonkin Gulf incident, and the resulting Resolution.
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry
gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Gov/US-History/Vietnam/vets-against
Gopher link to the full text of John Kerry's Winter Soldier
statement to the US Senate in 1972.
V. Publications, Book Reviews and Announcements, Book Sellers
Army Times Publishing Co.
http://www.armytimes.com/
With links to Air Force Times, Nay Times, Marine Corps
Times, Federal Times and Military City Online (active duty
locator).
Broken Rifle Press
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/brp
Books on the GI and veterans anti-war movement. Broken Rifle
Press, PO Box 749, Trenton, NJ 08607-0749
CIA Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/index.html
CAQ (Covert Action Quarterly) Magazine
http://www.caq.com/caq
Reflections on the Wall
http://photo2.si.edu/vvm/vvmhome.html
Documentary photography project by the Smithsonian
Institution.
Review of Rising Like Tucson
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/
Texts/Reviews/Anisfield_Rising_Tucson.html
Review of Jeff Danizer's book by Nancy Anisfield.
Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home
http://www.vietnamerica.com
Info & reviews re: Thomas Bass book.
VI. Research Libraries and Archives
Australian National University - Vietnam Resources
ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/otherarchives/asian-studies-
archives/vietnam-archives/
Center for Research Libraries Online Catalog (Searchable)
telnet://guest, then select VT100
terminal@crlcatalog.uchicago.edu:23
Chicago Public Library Catalog
http://cpl.lib.uic.edu/carl.html
La Salle University Library Website
http://alpha.lasalle.edu/library/vietnam.htm
It contains info on what is the world's largest collection
of imaginative representations of the Viet Nam War. It is
currently about 7000 items and growing. It concentrates on
novels, short stories, poetry, film, music, and art. Scholars,
students, and writers come from all over the world to use the
material in this collection. A full description can be found at
the website. Contact: John S. Baky; Director of Libraries;
Connelly Library; La Salle University; 1900 W. Olney Avenue;
Philadelphia, PA 19141; Phone: (215) - 951-1285 or 1286; Fax :
(215) 951-1595; e-mail Baky@alpha.lasalle.edu
Library at Quantico - Easter Offensive
http://138.156.204.100/www/MCRC/archives/scoturly.htm
Online location index of Col. Gerald Turley personal
collection of materials related to the NVA attacks in/around
Quang Tri '72 (Easter Offensive). Lots of very interesting
personal accounts etc from the MACV-155 team.
Library Catalogues and Databases at Georgetown
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/
library_catalogues.html
Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
http://lcweb.loc.gov/
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library at the University of Texas
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/
Mississippi State University - Vietnam War Archives
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/USA/Vietnam/vietnam.html
National Archives
http://www.nara.gov/
gopher://gopher.nara.gov
New York Public Library online catalog
telnet://nypl@nyplgate.nypl.org:23/
New York Public Library - Vietnam War
http://gopher.nypl.org/research/chss/subguides/milhist/
vietnam.html
Gopher to the New York Public Library Vietnam War military
history section.
University of Kansas - CARRIE: An Electronic LIbrary
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/carrie_main.html
University of Kansas: World-Wide Web Virtual Library: History
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html
VII. General Sites
These sites represent a broad spectrum of material, and are suitable
for the general reader.
CIABASE - trial version
http://webcom.com/%7Epinknoiz/covert/ciabasesearch.html
Requires a forms-capable WWW browser. It differs from the
commercial product by using a subset of the database, returning a
maximum of 50 matches. For more information on the CIABASE, send
an e-mail message to Ralph McGehee at rmcgehee@igc.apc.org
Center for Military History Homepage
http://imabbs.army.mil/cmh-pg/
This site is acquiring most of the material that was on the
Byrd Archives at Marshall University.
The Documentation Center of Cambodia in Phnom Penh
http://www.pactok.net.au
http://vlib.hum.uts.edu.au/PROJECTS/Dccam/DCCAM.HTM
Site contains information on the Khmer Rouge atrocities. e-
mail: .
E-HAWK Cadre Main Page http://www.olcommerce.com/cadre/index.html
Military site catalog, veterans materials, MIL-HIST online
library resources. Site deserves to be explored.
Glossary of Military Terms & Slang from the Vietnam War
http://www.jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/sixties/HTML_docs/
Glossary/
Grover Furr's Vietnam War Page
http://www.shss.montclair.edu/english/furr/vietnam.html
This page was put together by a Professor at Montclair State
basically for his American Studies course. Interesting and
coming at the subject from a differnet perspective.
Hmong WWW Homepage -- Pilot Project
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/cdr/hmong/
Military (Government)
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Government/Military.html
Military WWW list (Alexander McClearn)
http://www.tuns.ca/~mccleaae/
Links to many, many military relayed sites. e-mail to
mccleaae@newton.ccs.tuns.ca
Office of History at the Sacramento Air Logistics Center, McClellan
Air Force Base, CA
http://www.mcclellan.af.mil/HO/
Contains oral histories and images. E-mail: Steven Diamond,
historian and webmaster, (diamonds@smdis01.mcclellan.af.mil)
Peace and Security WWW Server - Canadian Forces College, Information
Resource Centre
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca
Sixties Project Syllabus Collection
http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/sixties/HTML_docs/
Sixties_syll_entry.html
Radio First Termer Home Page
http://sunsite.unc.edu/jwsnyder/rft/rft.html
.wav files of pirate radio station operating in Vietnam c.
1971, DJed by Dave Rabbit.
Texas Tech University - Center for the Study of the Vietnam Conflict
http://www.ttu.edu/~vietnam
E-mail: James R. Reckner, Ph.D., (jjrec@ttacs.ttu.edu)
Tulane My Lai Conference - Oral History.
http://www.ttu.edu/~vietnam/mylai.htm
Excerpts from the Tulane University 1994 My Lai conference.
University of Texas - Map of Vietnam (and other Asian Countries)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/asia.html
This site has downloadable maps, originally made for the
CIA, of many coubtries in Asia, including Vietnam and all of
Southeast Asia.
Vietnam Historical Archive
http://www.medio.net/Mediocom/Demos/Vietnam/
Vietnam Veterans Home Page
http://www.vietvet.org or http://grunt.space.swri.edu
A truly unique and superior site, filled with an enormous
amount of information.
Vietnam War History Page
http://www.bev.net/computer/htmlhelp/vietnam.html
VIII. POW - MIA Sites and Articles
The American Legion Report on the findings of the Senate Select
Committee on POW/MIA Affairs
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/amer_leg.txt
An Analysis of the SSC report by one of the nation's largest
veterans organizations.
Maria Damon: In the Belly of the Beast: MIAs and the Body Politic.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/
Scholarly/Damon_MIAs_01.html
Article published in Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November
1992). At the Vietnam Generation site.
Report of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/powssc-i.html
Multi-part, text version of the report, dated January 13,
1993.
Sedgwick Tourison: Let's Sell The Bones : The Marketing of America's
Missing In Action.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/bones.txt
This is a paper that was delivered at Texas Tech in 1996 by
Wick Tourison, and supplied to the newsgroup by him for the
purpose of supplementing the discussion on POWs / MIAs.
IX. Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
SHWV Archives (Unix compressed .Z files) - McCaskill
ftp://mccaskill.ssn.flinders.edu.au/pub/history/Vietnam-war
FTP link to the unix compressed (.Z) archivesof the
newsgroup. Downloadable files include all FAQS, bibliographies,
archive logs of all articles posted and other files of interest.
Also at this site is Tom Holloway's US Casualties file (a
searchable database of the Wall).
SEASIA-L Archives
http://www.netimages.com/ni-cgi-bin/fetch?newsgroup=seasia-l
Usenet Newsgroups
alt.war.vietnam
news:alt.war.vietnam
bit.listserv.seasia-l
news:bit.listserv.seasia-l
soc.culture.vietnamese
news:soc.culture.vietnamese
soc.history.war.vietnam
news:soc.history.war.vietnam
soc.veterans
news:soc.veterans
Viet Nam Generation and Sixties-l
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/sixties
Back issues of the journal (downloadable) along with access
to the sixties-l archives. other material.
What's New in WWW Asian Studies Online Newsletter ISSN 1323-9368
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/WhatsNewWWW/asian-www-
news.html
X. Veteran Pages - Groups
American Legion HQ
http://www.legion.org
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) HQ
http://www.dav.org
Military Women Homepage
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/military_woman
Veterans for Human Rights
http://solnlogic.com/VFHR2/vfhr-one.html
Vets With A Mission
http://www.vwam.com/vets/
Site requires Netscape 2.x
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc.
http://www.prairienet.org/vvaw/
About the Vietnam Veterans of America
http://www.cin.ix.net/tso/govvvf.2.html
Vietnam Veteran's Forum
http://www.cin.ix.net/tso/govvvf.0.html
XI. Veteran Pages -Individuals
Verne DeWitt
http://www.eskimo.com/%7Everne/my.htm
Rich Greene (Old Sarge)
http://www.wolfenet.com/~rich
Ulf (Ron) Heller - 1st Infantry Div
http://www.ionet.net/~uheller/vnbktoc.shtml
Gunny Robert Hile - "Fire Base Houston"
http://www.phoenix.net/~gunny
Dan Jenkins
http://dbj.com/www/wtknight/viet.htm
T. Martin - In Memoriam to the VietNam POW/MIAs
http://www.accucomm.net/~tmartin/vietnam.html
Military Search Bulletin Board - Tony Ferrer
http://www.shadow.net/~tferrer/search.html
Marine veteran. This is a locator page for those who wish
to find old friends from the service. E-mail:
Military Veterans Resource Web Page
http://www.teleport.com/~baudo
Vet Chat page of Baudo's Vet Links contains sections for
locating personnel and announceing reunions.
Brian Riley - 1st Recon, Da Nang 68-69
http://www.together.net/~brianbr/
Bobby Ross
http://www.aardvarking.com/bobbyross/
Gary Roush - Statistics About the Vietnam War
http://www.vhfcn.org/stats.htm
SEAL Homepage
http://the.south.com/TheTeams/
Richard Shand - Vietnam Memoirs
http://marlowe.wimsey.com/rshand/reflections/vietnam/vietnam.html
Craig Thompson
http://www.olywa.net/sdotctho/sdotctho.html
Craig is a veteran of the 173rd Airborne Brigade and a co-
moderator of soc.history.war.vietnam.
Frank Vaughn - "Spectre Gunner"
http://www.netcom.com/~baguio/gunship.html
Mike Weatherford
http://www.rmii.com/~mweather
Mike is a MSgt, USAF, Retired, and was in Vietnam at Tan Son
Nhut AB, 10/70 - 10/71.
XI. Unit Associations
Third Battalion Fourth Marines Web Page (Unofficial)
http://www.concentric.net/~reddawg
Contact: Reddawg - email: reddawg@concentric.net
National 4th Infantry Division Association - Mid South Chapter
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cactiblue
75th Ranger Regiment Association
http://www.ranger.org/~ranger/75thassc/75thassc.htm
101st Airborne Homepage
http://www.ameritel.net/lusers/mpearson/
Society of the 173rd Airborne Brigade
http://sunsite.unc.edu/173abn/173abn.html
196th Light Infantry Brigade Association
http://www.americal.org/196
E-mail to Ken McKenzie at KenMck196@aol.com
Americal Division Association
http://www.americal.org
Red River Valley Fighter Pilot's Association (RRVA)
http://www2.eos.net/RRVA/index.html
United States Army - Veteran Organization Locator.
http://www.army.mil/vetinfo/vetloc.htm
Vietnam Dog Handlers Association (VDHA)
http://www.mainstreetli.com/vdha/vdha.html
Vietnam Helicopter Crew Members Association
http://web2.airmail.net/vhcma/
Vietnam Veterans Home Page - Veterans Organizations and Support Groups
http://grunt.space.swri.edu/vetorgs.htm
Listings and links for a great number of organizations not
listed in this faq. Part of the great Vietnam Veteran's Home
Page.
XII. PTSD, Agent Orange and Health Related Issues
Agent Orange and Spina Bifida
http://www.junkscience.com/news/agent-orange-spina-bifida.html
Department of Veterans Affairs - Homeless Vets Page
http://www.va.gov/health/homeless/index.htm
The Etiology of Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dvb/goodwin.htm
Full text of a book chapter by Jim Goodwin, Psy. D. on David
Baldwin's excellent Trauma Info Pages
National Center For PTSD (White River Junction, VT)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/ptsd/
This is THE major site for information on PTSD. The site
includes a telnet connection to the PILOTS database which
includes citations and abstracts for thousands of works on the
subject. This is an absolute must for any serious student or
professional.
Jonathan Shay's Pamphlet on PTSD Medications
http://uhs.bsd.uchicago.edu/~bhsiung/tips/ptsd.html
Full text of Dr. Shay's (author of Achilles in Vietnam)
pamphlet originally designed to assist Vietnam veterans with
PTSD understand their medications.
Trauma Info Pages
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dvb/trauma.htm
Another excellent site, containing a lot of information and
a considerable number of links to other related websites.
Traumatic Stress Homepage
http://www.long-beach.va.gov/ptsd/stress.html
Created and maintained by the PTSD program at the VA Medical
Center in Phoenix. Once again, an excellent site. Lots to see
here, lots of links.
XIII. Vietnam War Memorials
Berkeley, California Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/vvm/
The Canadian Vietnam Veterans Memorial
http://www.io.org/~ipsys/powmia/jpictslg.html
"The North Wall" located in Windsor, Ontario.
CACF Search
http://www.sersoft.com/vietnam/
A site that allows for the search of the Combat Area
Casualty File database by Tom Holloway. These are essentially
the names on "The Wall".
Friends of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
http://WWW.Vietwall.org/
A national organization that serves "as the link" between
families, friends and visitors to the Wall and those who names
are on it. They provide a number of services, including rubbing
from the Wall for those who cannot get to the Memorial.
Hawaii Vietnam and Korean War Veterans Memorial
http://www.onramp.net/~hbarker/kia-hi-v.htm
By Hal Barker
Hunger of the Heart: Communion at the Wall
http://www.evansville.net/~randyman/larry.html
Sons and Daughters In Touch
http://www.lrrp.com/sdit/index.html
An organization that links the families of veterans on the
wall which people who knew them. Contact Corky Condon at
Corky6@ix.netcom.com.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Page
http://www.nps.gov/nps/ncro/nacc/vvm.html
Very complete page covering facts about the memorial and
some of the history behind the creating it. The official page of
the National Parks Service.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Search
http://grunt.space.swri.edu/thewall/thewallm.html
Part of the Vietnam Veterans Home Page. Tom Holloway's full
database is also downloadable at the soc.history.war.vietnam
McCaskill archive.
Vietnam Veterans Memorials
http://grunt.space.swri.edu/vietmems.htm
This page is dedicated to the various VV memorials around
the world, many of which have their only web presence here. Yet
another outstanding page of the Vietnam Veterans Home Page.
XIV. Governmental Sites
Center for Army Lessons Learned Home Page
http://call.army.mil:1100/call.html
Congress: House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov
Congress: The Senate
http://www.senate.gov
Department of Defense (DefenseLINK)
http://www.dtic.dla.mil/defenselink/
Department of Defense - US Air Force
http://www.dtic.mil/airforcelink/
Department of Defense - US Army (Army Link)
http://www.army.mil/
Department of Defense - US Marine Corps
http://www.usmc.mil/
Department of Defense - US Navy
http://www.ncts.navy.mil/navpalib/.www/welcome.html
Department of Veterans Affairs
http://www.va.gov/
Director of Central Intelligence
http://www.odci.gov/
FedWorld
http://www.fedworld.gov/
GPO Home Page
http://www.access.gpo.gov/
GPO Access
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces001.html
Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page (New version 05/02/95)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/
National Archives
http://www.nara.gov/
gopher://gopher.nara.gov
National Defense University (NDU)
http://www.ndu.edu/
Naval Historical Center
http://www.history.navy.mil/
POW/MIA Document Index - Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pow/powhome.html
United States Army Military History Institute Welcome
http://144.99.192.240/
White House - Executive Branch
http://www.whitehouse.gov
Links to just about everywhere in the Federal government
through the Interactive Citizens Handbook, including the
Department of Defense (with all miliary branchs) and the
Department of Veterans Affairs.
XV. Pictures and Images
The following sites all contain images of Vietnam, either during the
war or present day.
The Image Library at SHWV
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/imagetop.html
Over 20 megabytes of images, including an extensive lbrary
of armor photos. Also at this site are most of the Vietnam
related images that were formerly housed at the Byrd Arhive.
E. Kenneth Hoffman's Vietnam Portfolio
http://icarus.shu.edu:80/gallery/V_Portfolio/
Doug Skeggs's Images of Vietnam
http://www.vianet.on.ca/pages/skeggsd/vnam/vnam.html
Doug has put together an Images of Vietnam page with photos
from two cycling trips I did there in 1994 and 1995. Shots from
Saigon to Dong Ha, the Central Highlands, and the A Shau Valley.
Nothing north of the Ben Hai river.
U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Art Gallery
http://members.aol.com/jimm844224/vietart1.html
VietGate Gallery
http://www.saigon.com/Gallery/Gallery.html
VietNam Pictures Archive at SunSite (UNC)
http://sunsite.unc.edu/vietnam/vnpic.html
Vietnam Veterans Home Page - Images
http://www.vietvet.org/images.htm
A number of photographers and veterans have placed their
images on the Vietnam Veterans Home Page. Some of these folks
include Valerie Schumacher, Jerry Luoma, Peter Brush and Joe
Conte.
XVI. Vietnamese Overseas Community
Dien Dan Dan Chu/Forum for Democracy
http://www.vweb.net/dddc
Daily news update from Dien Dan Dan Chu (Forum for
Democracy) radio station in Vietnamese.
Free Vietnam Alliance Web page (FVA)
http://www.fva.org/
Lien Minh Viet Nam Tu Do Newsletter
http://www.fva.org/bantinlm.html
VietGATE at saigon.com
http://www.saigon.com/
Includes achives of soc.ulture.vietnamese and pointers to
other related sites, including the Vietnamese Students
Association at various locations. E-mail to
webmaster@netimages.com
Vietnam Democracy Web page
http://www.fva.org/vndemo.html
e-mail:vndemo@fva.org
Vietnam Insight
http://www.vinsight.org/insight.html
VN Forum
http://www.netimages.com/ni-cgi-bin/fetch?newsgroup=vnforum
XVII. Vietnam Today
Asia Studies
http://asiadata.pacificnet.com
Site provides demographic information.
Business Info on Vietnam
http://silkroute.com/silkroute/asia/rsrc/country/vietnam.html
Complete On-Line Guide to Business and Travel in Vietnam
http://www.serve.net/vietnam
Planet Earth Vietnam Homepage
http://sehplib.ucsd.edu/~d10nguye/Vietnam.html
Spragens, John
http://www.dnai.com/~spragens/
Articles on recent Indochina.
Viet Nam Home Page
http://maingate.net:80/vn/
Travel and commercial business resource page.
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