Collection

Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00645
Date: circa 1968
Title: Aerial view of Vietnam showing bomb crators
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00647
Date: circa 1968
Title: Soldiers waiting for lunch, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00649
Date: circa 1968
Title: William Bitz's basic training friends
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00651
Date: circa 1968
Title: Blurry photo of a traffic jam
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00653
Date: circa 1968
Title: Stack of bales in North Dakota
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00655
Date: circa 1968
Title: Johnson, Alexander, and Justice building a bunker
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00657
Date: circa 1968
Title: Soldier taking cement forms off of a culvert in Mekong Delta
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00659
Date: circa 1968
Title: Vietnamese woman sitting in the shade
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00661
Date: circa 1968
Title: Base dump
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00663
Date: circa 1968
Title: People getting stage ready for Bob Hope show
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00665
Date: circa 1968
Title: Preparing rice from field
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00667
Date: 1968
Title: Building bridge at AIT in Mo.
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00669
Date: 1967
Title: Jack Hennen checking his truck
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00671
Date: 1969
Title: William Bitz writing a letter home
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00673
Date: 1969
Title: Fort Riley (Kan.) where William Bitz spent his last six months of service
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00675
Date: 1969
Title: Cemetery in South Vietnam
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00677
Date: 1968
Title: William Bitz on search and destroy mission, Vietnam
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00679
Date: 1969
Title: Sargent Moore and Kent Olson, Vietnam
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00681
Date: 1968
Title: Catholic outdoor mass after the Bob Hope show
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00683
Date: 1968
Title: William Bitz's convoy going through My Tho
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00685
Date: 1968
Title: Rose Bitz, grandma, Carla, Coleen Grown and Marion Bitz
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00687
Date: 1969
Title: Men resting along the roadside
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00689
Date: 1968
Title: Young Vietnamese girl who asked American troops to take her to the U.S.
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00691
Date: 1968
Title: Driving through My Tho, Vietnam
Collection: 11322 - Prairie Memories: The Vietnam War Years Collection
Folder: DIG.001
Item: 00693
Date: 1969
Title: Men joking around in the captain's Jeep

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