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You will need the free Real Player to use these files.  (Scroll down to the bottom of the Real Player site to get the free version.) The video files will not display very well over a phone lines connection, but the audio files are quite good.

• Armed Forces Vietnam Network - (Audio only) This thirty minute recording of an AFVN show was taped in October of 1970.  Courtesy of Jeff Wilhoit, grunt and RTO with Company A , 3^rd Battalion, 1^st Infantry, 11^th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division. 

• Operation Pegasus - (Video only).  This is actual video, originally shot by Ken Burington on a personal 8mm film camera.  There is no sound.  It begins with a fire mission by C Company's Mortar Platoon.  It covers a combat assault into LZ Tom and LZ Stud, and a fly-over of both the Old French Fort and Khe Sanh  in early April, 1968.  To see the sequenced list of shots, as well as a map of the area, go to April 1968.  

• President Nixon's Speech Announcing the End of the War - (Audio only)  This radio and television broadcast on January 23, 1973, announced the end of America's participation in the Vietnam war.  By this time there were no American ground combat troops in Vietnam - C 2/5 Cav had left nine months earlier.

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Updated March 24, 2001