Records of War

Records of War has had extremely good response to our first page put up. This first page The US Marines in Vietnam was uploaded on the 21st of April 2010. It was advertised by sending out 300 e-mails to former Vietnam era Marines, and within 4 days the numbers were 8,583 visitors and 14,800 page views, and has by 5 May at a level of 4,000 - 12,000 page views a day. The word is spread fast.

 

I will be adding Army, Navy, & , Air Force records as I can mine the TTU site to find them. Initially these pages will be built with the Bud Harton Collection at TTU, and then expanded.

 

I have hopes of expanding to WWI, WWII and beyond as records become available, or I can find them. Please check back periodically to see what has been added.

 

My goal is to try to build a 'one site' solution to accessing, our military history as it was described by those tasked to record it, not second, or third hand accounts consolidated from other second and third hand accounts. The history of Americas wars directly from those very individuals that made that history.

 

 

About the records you are accessing here.

For the Vietnam War Collection, the primary source of the documents is the Texas Tech University Virtual Vietnam Archive. Most reports, and the down loadable maps come directly out of their site when you access them here. The Marine Corps documents were scanned by the Gray Research Center, at the Marine Corps University. The initial documents for the Army, Navy, & Air Force will be accessed through the Bud Hardon Collection at the Virtual Vietnam Archive.

 

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