The Virtual Vietnam Archive

The Virtual Vietnam Archive enables scholars, students and all interested in this remarkable period in our world history to conduct research directly from universities, schools, libraries, and homes. Of equal importance, it will enable Vietnam veterans - those who actually served - to access records that might be of importance to them in their continuing efforts to understand their own experiences. It will facilitate the research and writing of participants' memoirs, and will give high school and college students an important and authoritative source of information as they seek to understand the complexities of the Vietnam War.

When the Virtual Vietnam Archive project is complete, it will include a record for every item in the Vietnam Archive. All non-copyrighted items will be available online, free of charge. The Virtual Archive currently includes finding aids for all Vietnam Archive collections and over 1.5 million pages of materials online, including documents, photographs, slides, negatives, audio and moving image recordings, artifacts, and oral histories. New items are being added daily.

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Operations Database

The Operations Database, now available in a searchable format, includes information on 1,380 operations conducted in Southeast Asia, including dates, locations, and when know, units and number or participants.

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Frequently Asked Questions/Knowledge Base

The Frequently Asked Questions section includes many commonly asked reference questions concerning Vietnam, Southeast Asia and the war, as well as questions about this website and the Virtual Vietnam Archive.

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Maps Database Search Page

While the Vietnam Archive's 1:50000 and 1:250000 map collection has been available in the Virtual Vietnam Archive for some time, the search capabilities for maps have been limited. A new search interface is now available allowing for searching by title/keyword, country, scale, sheet number, and latitude/longitude. Additional resources have also been provided, including a guide on how to read maps, and links to gazetteers for Southeast Asia, which researchers can use to find latitude and longitude coordinates for cities, towns, and geographic features. A browse feature for Vietnam is also available.

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