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| Series I: Manuscripts | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER MSS3074/1-5 | Correspondence, December 9, 1966-May 7, 1968 | ||||||||||||
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| MS01: Letters from Olver to his family, predominately his mother, Inez Olver, documenting Olver's Army service in the United States and Vietnam. Topics include: basic training, excelling at riflery, combat training, descriptions of serving in Phouc Vinh, "short timers," hearing about anti-war feelings stateside and the "win the war and get out" attitude in country, witnessing a soldier have a mental break, thoughts on just trying to survive his year in country, search and destroy missions, describing what a patrol is like, conflicted feelings surrounding burning a Viet Cong village, loosing two good friends in the same month, becoming wounded in the head due to ambush. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER MSS3074/6 | Correspondence, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||||
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| MS02: Letters from family, friends, and well-wishers for Olver, the majority of which relate to notes of condolence after he was wounded in combat in Vietnam. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER MSS694/1 | Correspondence, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||||
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| MS03: Self-published collection of transcribed correspondence with annotations and memoirs Olver co-authored with Regina Tubbs produced in 2019. Includes images of photographs and documents Olver created while in Vietnam. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER MSS3074/7 | Clippings, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||||
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| MS04: Newspaper articles about 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry in Vietnam compiled by Olver's mother, Inez. Also includes articles about Olver following his injuries sustained while in Vietnam. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OVZ369/1 | Military Papers, July 1967-May 11, 1968 | ||||||||||||
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| MS05: Two training schedules for Olver's unit at Fort Polk (07/1967) and an inventory of belonging when Olver was in the hospital (05/11/1968) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OVZ187/1 | Periodicals, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||||
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| MS06: Issues of The American Traveler of the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam. | |||||||||||||
| Series II: Photographs | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER OVZ413/1 | Original Photographic Print, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||||
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| PH01-PH02: Images of Olver in uniform, immediately before deploying to Vietnam. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER MSS3074/8 | Original Photographic Print, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||||
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| PH03: Mark Olver with Fess Parker, Long Binh, Vietnam, 4/25/1965 PH04: Olver with unidentified soldier. PH05: "Easter 1969, April 6" Olver Standing with his father. PH06: Olver in dress uniform with unidentified soldier. PH07: Soldier walking through Vietnam forest PH08: Olver, Vickers, and Johnson, Phuoc Vinh, Nov. 1967 PH09: "August 1967" Olver sitting on a bed with a helmet in his lap. PH10: "Mark Viet Nam, January 1968"PH11: "Air Strike" PH12: "VC Village" Unidentified man with a dog PH13: "Richard Davidson 'Bird' of Granite City, Illinois" PH14: "William Bradley 'Best friend' of Louisiana" PH16: "William Bradley" PH17: "Vietnamese village" PH18: "Vietnam 1968, Turner, Schmidt, Martin" PH19-PH21: View of platoon camp in Vietnam PH22: "C-123 Caribou"PH23: "Huey Gun Ship" PH24: Group of soldiers sitting under of a tent PH25: Two unidentified soldiers PH26: "Mark, Sgt. Vickers, Sgt. Johnson" PH27: "Bunker line" PH28: "Weekend pass from Basic, Ft. Knox" PH29: View of unidentified farm land in Vietnam PH30: Unidentified soldier standing next to artillery weapon PH31: "Ft. Polk" PH32: Unidentified soldier standing next to artillery weapon PH33: "Jak Kanabinis, Vickers, Sgt. Johnson" PH34: "mortor platoon" PH35: "Phouc Vinh, 81 mm mortar tube" PH36: "Basecamp somewhere" PH37: Fort Polk, LA PH38: "Trevino, Arizona" PH39: "Tent City, July 1967, Ft. Polk, LA" PH40: Image of unidentified human remains PH41: ""Basic Training Ft. Knox 1966" PH42: "Captured Ak 47" PH43: "Pick up for Air Assault" PH44: Image of helicopter receiving flight crew PH45: Image of platoon camp, tent and chow PH46: "Detainee" PH47: "Mark with Fess Parker, taken April 24, 1968 at the 24th Evac. Hospital" PH48: "Sept. 1967 Phouc Vinh, Viet Nam" PH50: "Guess Who? Sept 1967, Phouc Vinh, Viet Nam" |
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| BOX-FOLDER MSS3074/9 | Slides, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||||
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| PH51: "Martin & Davidson, 1968" PH52: "Prentis Martin shaving, 1968" PH53: "Cobra, 1968"PH54: "Mail call, 1968" PH55: "Endless sand bags, '68" PH56: "Richard Davidson 'Bird', '68" PH57: "John Galus of W. Springfield, MA" PH58: "Hwy 13 open, 1968" PH59: "Latrines at Phouc Vinh" PH60: "Mark Olver, always digging, 1968" PH61: "Mark Olver with 11th Cav" PH62-PH68: Images of Phouc Vinh camp PH69: "Quan Loi, 1968"PH70: "Phuoc Vinh, 1968" PH71: "Holes on perimeter, 11th Cav" PH72: "Interpreter with detainee, 1968" PH73-PH82: Images of Olver’s platoon and base camp |
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| Series III: Computer Files | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER FLD-69/1 | Correspondence, 2019 | ||||||||||||
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| CF01: Contains 8 digital files of MS03 correspondence. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER FLD-69/2 | Photographs, 1967-1968 | ||||||||||||
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| CF02: Contains digital images of slides created by Olver while in Vietnam. Some duplicates found in PH52-PH82 | |||||||||||||
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