Hosted by Texas Tech. The oral history section is huge and covers a wide range of experiences. There's more than enough to keep you busy. Maps, imagery, audio....everything.
This is a link to all the command chronologies, after-action reports and combat histories of most, if not all, Army and Marine units in Vietnam, in PDF form, the original typed documents, lovingly "mined" from the Texas Tech collection.
This is a link to the Marine section, but if you click on "Records of War Home" you can access Army documents including Special Forces unit histories as far back as 1962. This is incredible stuff, vast and comprehensive as FF has noted.
This archive has been a bit spooky for me because I can follow the actions and events of my team almost day-to-day with the Command Chronologies for my Group. The writing is admin clerk template, just numbers, facts, grids and abbreviations. You can't smell the dirt, feel the heat, see the blood, know the names or faces or the real circumstances. But as stark as it is, it triggers technicolor/dolby sound menories. This is the entry for the night of my medevac.
It's just crazy to encounter this stuff after many years.
USEF =unspecified enemy force
SAF=small arms fire
OWF=organic weapons fire
RF=South Vietnamese Regional Force Infantry
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