Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. 1921 - 2008. News Photographs
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Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. 1921 - 2008. News Photographs
This series consists of photographs documenting United States military activities throughout the world. Eighty percent of the photographs relate to the Vietnam War, including pictures of Viet Cong, Republic of Vietnam soldiers, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, military operations, reconnaissance photographs, combat art, prisoners of war (POWs) and Viet Cong atrocities.
Military operations in this series include: Abilene, Acid Test Three, Beacon, Birmingham, Bold Mariner, Bold Pursuit, Cedar Falls, Compac (toothbrush initiative), Crazy Horse, Dagger Thrust, Dawson River, Deckhouse V, Deep Freeze, Dewey Canyon, Eagle Thrust, End Sweep, Francis Marion, Hastings, Hawthorne, Homecoming, Hood River, Junction City, King Grain, Lincoln, Linn River, MacArthur, Maine Crag, Masher, Muscatine, Newton, Nimbus Star/Moon, Oklahoma Hills, Oregon, Pershing, Pipestone Canyon, Piranha, Purple Martin, Red Hat, Reindeer, Sea Dragon, Sea Lords, Song Thanh, Taylor Common, Thayer, UNITAS VI, UNITAS VIII, and Van Buren.
In addition, there are general photographs of military ships and aircraft, including "The Spirit of '76" and the Enola Gay; training exercises; United States military academies; Soviet ships and aircraft; Medal of Honor winners; military mascots and service animals; relief efforts worldwide; and bases in the United States and abroad. This series also contains photographs relating to the Apollo XII and XIV missions; experiments in diving and aircraft technology, including jetpack research; and the first color full Earth photos taken from space by the Navy's DODGE satellite. There are winning photographs and honorable mentions from the Military Picture of the Year competition for the years 1967 through 1974 in news, portraits, sports, features, pictorial and picture stories. There are also several news releases focusing on women and their role in the military.
Personalities in this series include Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford; Vice President Spiro T. Agnew; First Ladies Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy and Pat Nixon; Secretaries of Defense Robert McNamara, Melvin Laird, Elliot Richardson and James Schlesinger; Secretary of the Navy/Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze; Generals William Westmoreland and Omar Bradley; Senators Robert F. Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy and Strom Thurmond; Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller; Ross Perot; World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker; boxing champion Archie Moore; National Football League player Gale Sayers; and various foreign dignitaries.
ArchivalResource:
9 linear feet, 4 linear inches
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