James Scott served in the US Army, 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry, 1st Brigade (Separate), 5th Infantry Division during the Vietnam War/ Following his tour in Vietnam, Scott was transferred to the 173rd Airborne Brigade (later deactivated and redesignated as the 3rd Brigade (Airborne), 101st Airborne Division (Air Mobile)) and went with that unit to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Scott was an infantry captain on the team which created the 101st Airborne Division Air Assault School in 1973. This collection consists of thirty-one 35mm color slides documenting James Scott's service with the US Army.
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of thirty-one 35mm color slides documenting James Scott's service with the US Army. Nine of the images are from Scott's time with the 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division during the Vietnam War. Five were taken during an assault by the 1/11 infantry on the abandoned Khe Sanh Combat Base at the initiation of Operation DEWEY CANYON II on January 30, 1971. The other four images from Vietnam are views taken from helicopters flying in the region of Khe Sanh. The remaining twenty-two slides in the collection were taken at the 101st Airborne Division Air Assault School at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in 1973--1974 and show various training and aircraft familiarization activities. Several show the experimental Helicopter Tree Landing Platform (HTLP). Aircraft shown in the photographs include the Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey), Sikorsky (S-64A) CH-54A Tarhe (Skycrane), Boeing-Vertol CH-47A Chinook, Bell AH-1 Cobra, and the Bell OH-58 Kiowa.
Arrangement:
Collection is in original order. It was organized by the donor in two series - images taken in Vietnam and images taken at the 101st Airborne Division Air Assault School at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Biographical / Historical:
James Scott served in the US Army, 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry, 1st Brigade (Separate), 5th Infantry Division during the Vietnam War. On January 30, 1971, Scott's Battalion was the lead unit to move into the abandoned Khe Sanh Combat Base, while encountering limited enemy contact en route, as part of Operation DEWEY CANYON II. This allowed for an airstrip to be established at Khe Sahn to serve as a support base for Operation LAM SON 719, an offensive campaign to cut enemy supply lines and clear the way for an invasion of Laos by the Republic of Vietnam. Following his tour in Vietnam, Scott was transferred to the 173rd Airborne Brigade (later deactivated and redesignated as the 3rd Brigade (Airborne), 101st Airborne Division (Air Mobile)) and went with that unit to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Scott was an infantry captain on the team which created the 101st Airborne Division Air Assault School in 1973. James Scott earned Senior Parachute Wings, was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, the Bronze Star, and the Army Commendation Medal, before leaving active duty with the US Army in 1975 at the rank of captain. Following his military career, Scott was a civilian employee with the Department of Defense including work at the US Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama and the Naval Air Systems Command in Arlington, Virginia.
Provenance:
James Scott, Gift, 2022, NASM.2023.0004.
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View of Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) approaching experimental Helicopter Tree Landing Platform (HTLP). Taken at Air Assault School, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1974.
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Collection Citation:
Vietnam War and Air Assault School Color Slides [Scott], NASM.2023.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
View of Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) in the air above experimental Helicopter Tree Landing Platform (HTLP). Taken at Air Assault School, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1974.
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Collection Citation:
Vietnam War and Air Assault School Color Slides [Scott], NASM.2023.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Sikorsky (S-64A) CH-54A Tarhe (Skycrane); Boeing-Vertol CH-47A Chinook; Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) Series; Bell AH-1 Cobra Series; Military, USA, Army Aviation, Army, Units, 101st Airborne Division; Military, USA, Army Aviation, Army, Training
View of aircraft on the ground at Air Assault School, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1974. Visible from left to right are a Boeing-Vertol CH-47A Chinook, Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey), Sikorsky (S-64A) CH-54A Tarhe (Skycrane), and a Bell AH-1 Cobra.
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No restrictions on access
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Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Vietnam War and Air Assault School Color Slides [Scott], NASM.2023.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
View of training activities involving personnel from the US Army 101st Airborne Division at Air Assault School, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1974. Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) visible in flight.
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Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Vietnam War and Air Assault School Color Slides [Scott], NASM.2023.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
View of Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) in flight during training activities involving personnel from the US Army 101st Airborne Division at Air Assault School, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1974.
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No restrictions on access
Collection Rights:
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Vietnam War and Air Assault School Color Slides [Scott], NASM.2023.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
View of Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) in flight during training activities involving personnel from the US Army 101st Airborne Division at Air Assault School, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1974.
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No restrictions on access
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Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Vietnam War and Air Assault School Color Slides [Scott], NASM.2023.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
View of Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) in flight during training activities involving personnel from the US Army 101st Airborne Division at Air Assault School, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 1974.
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No restrictions on access
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Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Vietnam War and Air Assault School Color Slides [Scott], NASM.2023.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
View Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) in the sky above Khe Sanh Combat Base. Personnel from the US Army, 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry, 1st Brigade (Separate), 5th Infantry Division visible on ground.
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Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Vietnam War and Air Assault School Color Slides [Scott], NASM.2023.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
View Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) landing at Khe Sanh Combat Base. Personnel from the US Army, 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry, 1st Brigade (Separate), 5th Infantry Division visible on ground.
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Collection Citation:
Vietnam War and Air Assault School Color Slides [Scott], NASM.2023.0004, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division. Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
The majority of the Archives Department's public reference requests can be answered using material in these files, which may be accessed through the Reading Room at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. More specific information can be requested by contacting the Archives Research Request.
This collection consists of copy slides of 122 slides taken by Lt. Col. S. F. Watson, U.S. Army helicopter pilot, during the Vietnam War. The slides include shots of helicopters, aerial scenes and air-to-air helicopter shots. Types of helicopters included are as follows: Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey); Bell UH-1B (HU-1B) Iroquois (Huey); Bell OH-58 Kiowa; Boeing-Vertol CH-47A Chinook; Lockheed AH-56A Cheyenne; Bell AH-1G Cobra; and the Sikorsky (S-64) CH-54 Tarhe (Skycrane).
Biographical / Historical:
Lt. Col. S. F. Watson, US Army was a helicopter pilot, during the Vietnam War.
Provenance:
Frances J. Watson, Gift, 1993
Restrictions:
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This collection consists of 2,931 slides taken by Lawrence V. Smith of the following aircraft and spacecraft: Bell AH-1W (AH-1T+) SuperCobra; Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey); Sikorsky (S-70B) SH-60B Seahawk; Sikorsky (S-80) CH-53E Super; North American F-100 Super Sabre; Lockheed P-3 Orion; Grumman F-14 Tomcat; General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon; Lockheed C-130 Hercules; Skylab, Skylab 2; and (Space Shuttle) Endeavour (OV-15). The collection also contains slides of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia; the National Air and Space Museum; and general military shots of parachutists, military vehicles, marine landings and military air stations.
Biographical / Historical:
Lawrence V. Smith (1931-2010) was an Emmy Award-winning photographer. He received a bachlelor's degree in Education, majoring in Physical Science from Illinois State University and then began work on a Doctorate in biochemistry at Iowa State College. After a semester at Iowa State, Smith dropped out and accepted a position as a chemist at the US Rubber Company in Joliet, Illinois. Having lost his student exemption, Smith was drafted in the Army where he was an electronics instructor for the Nike guided missile system. During the mid-1950s he started to become involved in motion picture when he filmed an air show crash and sold the footage to the Today Show. Highlights of Smith's career include: his work as a CBS cameraman in Cuba, where he traveled with Castro during the Cuban Revolution, earning him his first Emmy; his work as a cameraman/correspondent for ABC-TV during the early states of the Vietnam War in 1965, garnering him his second Emmy; and his work as director of photography for Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom where he won two more Emmy award certificates. Smith worked under contract for the US Information Agency (USIA) specializing in helicopter photography of Apollo missions 11 through 16 and later covered aspects of the Skylab Program. Smith later had several independent film companies in Jacksonville Florida, where he expanded into video and began his own image library, specializing in transportation photography.
Provenance:
Linda Lockwood Smith, Gift, 2016
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No restrictions on access.
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This collection consists of 47 diaries/engineering notebooks, containing highly detailed information and data relating to the design and development of the Bell Model 30 (which became the Model 47), the UH-1 Huey and the 206 JetRanger series, among other craft.
Biographical / Historical:
Bartram "Bart" Kelley (1909-1998) was a pioneering and distinguished helicopter engineer whose career was spent working for the Bell Aircraft and Bell Helicopter companies. Hired by Arthur M. Young, Kelley was instrumental in the design, testing, and development of such Bell aircraft as the H-13 Sioux, UH-1 Iroquois, AH-1G Cobra, OH-58 Kiowa, and XV-15. He became chief engineer of Bell's helicopter division in the late 1940s. After retirement in 1975, he served as a consultant for Bell Helicopter Textron. Bart Kelley was a fellow of the Helicopter Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Society of Aeronautical Engineers. He was inducted into the United States Army Aviation Hall of Fame in 1994.
Provenance:
Dorothea N. Kelley, Gift, 2011
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No restrictions on access.
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Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests
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