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One source you should consider is the U.S. Army Museum system, who for
rather obvious reasons has exhibits about the Vietnam war from every
military perspective. Some of the exhibits are a bit old, like the
one at Aberdeen Proving Ground Museum which refers to the Viet Cong in
the present tense! [Still a good exhibit.] There are many U.S. Army
museums scattered around the country (as well as in Europe and Asia).
To get information about these museums, the point of contact is:
Department of the Army
Center for Military History
ATTN: DAMH-MD
1099 Fourteenth St. NW
Washington, DC 20005-3402
(202) 504-5373
The Chief Curator is Judson E. Bennett, Jr.
If you are interested, I can provide information (a press release and
a script) about an exhibit at the Armed Forces Medical Museum (now the
National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology that was on display from the early 1970's to 1989.
I can be reached at:
Alan Hawk
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Bldg 54, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, DC 20306-6000
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One interesting point:
During the Vietnam War, there were a couple of museums maintained by
military personnel in Vietnam.
One museum was run by the Combined Materiel Exploitation Branch, MACV
in Saigon in the early 1970's. It featured captured Viet Cong
equipment. While I doubt that this museum was ever open to the
general Vietnamese population, a couple of the surviving display
labels are typed in both English and Vietnamese. Much of the medical
equipment worked it's way to the National Museum of Health and
Medicine and the Army Medical Department Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
I suspect other types of equipment wound up in other Army museums.
Another museum was run by a surgeon stationed at the 2nd Surgical
Hospital in An Khe in 1967-1968. It featured items collected to
document wound ballistics based on case histories of patients who went
through the hospital. It gradually grew to include examples of
weapons used by the Viet Cong and other miscellaneous artifacts. The
information generated by this collection was used in a series of
articles in Military Surgeon desribing the treatment of combat wounds
published during the war.
I would be interested if any of the Vietnam veterans who are reading
this have any recollections of these two museums or any similiar
museums.
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