Howard L. Hayden Papers, 1967-1968, 1993-1999
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Summary Information
Title: Howard L. Hayden Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1967-1968, 1993-1999

Creator:
  • Hayden, Howard L.
Call Number: Eau Claire Mss CO; PH Eau Claire Mss CO

Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box), 46 photographs and 83 transparencies (1 folder)

Repository:
Housed at the Area Research Center, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
UW-Eau Claire McIntyre Library / Eau Claire Area Research Ctr. (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Papers of Howard L. Hayden, a Vietnam veteran from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who was drafted in February 1967 and served with a U.S. Army mechanized reconnaissance unit (25th Infantry Division, 4th Battalion) based in Cư Chi and Tây Ninh from August 1967 to August 1968. Hayden, a dyslexic, began writing about his combat experiences as part of his work with a literacy tutor in 1993. The collection includes manuscript drafts of stories, typescripts (prepared by Susan Anderson, his literacy tutor), a memoir, and a published volume titled “A Soldier's Story: Tracks, Tunnels and the Tet Offensive” (1999); original letters written by Hayden to his mother and sister Nancy from the beginning of his Army training to the end of his tour in Vietnam, some of which mention events which later figure in his stories; service records and awards; a published article; and captioned copies of photographs taken in the field and at Cư Chi. His stories are notable for their soldier's-eye view of matters such as clearing tunnels, knocking down woods, providing security for convoys, personal safety, and life in the field and in base camp. Some photographs and transparencies relate to the stories. Images include camp housing and facilities, mined roads, equipment, living in the field, a camp memorial service, and fellow soldiers.

Note:

There is a restriction on use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.



Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ec00co
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Administrative/Restriction Information
Use Restrictions

Copyright is owned by Howard L. Hayden until January 1, 2046.


Acquisition Information

Presented by Howard L. Hayden, Mondovi, Wisconsin, 1995. Accession Number: M97-260


Contents List
Eau Claire Mss CO
Box   1
Writings and letters, 1967-1968, 1993-1999
Box   1
Correspondence, Vietnam, to mother and sister Nancy, 1967-1968
Box   1
Memoir and stories concerning military service in Vietnam
Box   1
A Soldier's Story: Tracks, Tunnels, and the Tet Offensive / by Howard Hayden, 1999
Box   1
Service records and awards
Box   1
Published article
Box   1
Copies of photographs taken in the field and at Cư Chi
PH Eau Claire Mss CO
Photographs
Transparencies
Folder   1
1. Crane helicopter bringing out a bridge
Folder   1
2. Village children
Folder   1
3. The day my track got blown up, September 1967. My first Purple Heart
Folder   1
4. Crane helicopter
Folder   1
5. Crane helicopter, bridge building
Folder   1
6. Village people
Folder   1
7. Chinook helicopter used for bringing out supplies: food, ammo, fuel in big containers, beer
Folder   1
8. Our barracks before they got blown up, Cư Chi basecamp
Folder   1
9. Soldiers on a track
Folder   1
10. Out in a village
Folder   1
11. Basecamp outside a village
Folder   1
12. Track No. 35
Folder   1
13. Crane helicopter
Folder   1
14. Burned-out hootches, maybe after a firefight
Folder   1
15. Cư Chi basecamp
Folder   1
16. A 60 machine-gun and something else burned down
Folder   1
17. Blew the road, a hole in the ground
Folder   1
18. Motor-pool parking lot
Folder   1
19. Basecamp, same parking lot, tanker trucks in background
Folder   1
20. A perimeter hole. You drive the track into the hole and only the machine-gun shows
Folder   1
21. Village guard-post outside basecamp
Folder   1
22. Guys in a track
Folder   1
23. The guy we called Farmer in rabbit ears on track
Folder   1
24. Village outside Cư Chi
Folder   1
25. Blew the road, hole in the middle, can't run convoys
Folder   1
26. Outside perimeter at basecamp
Folder   1
27. House
Folder   1
28. Basecamp headquarters: mess hall, sleeping quarters
Folder   1
29. Unknown.
Folder   1
30. Barbed wire in a village
Folder   1
31. Sandbagged bunkers, maybe what's left of our hootches after they blew up the ammo dump
Folder   1
32. Sandbagged bunkers
Folder   1
33. Bunkers
Folder   1
34. Track going through the woods
Folder   1
35. Howard's blown track and first Purple Heart
Folder   1
36. Calling in napalm, white phosphorous
Folder   1
37. Two unknown men
Folder   1
38. Niersen, later shot twice
Folder   1
39. Building a bunker of sandbags about 6 feet deep
Folder   1
40. Searching for the enemy going through the jungle
Folder   1
41. Same picture
Folder   1
42. Air strike called in
Folder   1
43. Two barely visible Rome plows knocking down the jungle
Folder   1
44. Unidentified
Folder   1
45. Howard's track No. 37 blown up, first Purple Heart, September 1967
Folder   1
46. Air strike
Folder   1
47. Air strike
Folder   1
48. Air strike
Folder   1
49. Crane helicopter and village kids
Folder   1
51. Air strike
Folder   1
52. Basecamp at Cư Chi
Folder   1
53. Unidentified
Folder   1
54. Track, basecamp in the boondocks
Folder   1
55. Unidentified
Folder   1
56. Howard and his track
Folder   1
57. Rubber plantation, not allowed to fight in, may be French owned
Folder   1
58. Something collapsed, may be during Tet
Folder   1
59. Village people
Folder   1
60. Miniature horses
Folder   1
61. Convoy
Folder   1
62. Basecamp
Folder   1
63. Something blown up
Folder   1
64. Crane helicopter
Folder   1
65. Basecamp, back side
Folder   1
66. Front of basecamp, sandbags
Folder   1
67. Airstrike
Folder   1
68. Motor-pool at basecamp
Folder   1
69. Two water buffalo pulling village cart
Folder   1
70. Just a village and truck
Folder   1
71. Taken from a track, just a village
Folder   1
72. Village and a jeep
Folder   1
73. Unidentified picture taken from a track
Folder   1
74. Picture of a village, maybe water buffalo
Folder   1
75. Jungle
Folder   1
76. Helicopter
Folder   1
77. Unidentified
Folder   1
78. A car and a village cart
Folder   1
79. Village
Folder   1
80. Gas station and an American car, a 60 machine-gun shows too
Folder   1
81. Running convoy through a village
Folder   1
82. Outside of basecamp
Folder   1
83. Out at a basecamp in the boondocks, the command track. There's a towel over the 60 machine-gun in the front of the picture.