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Collection Structure Overseas Weekly photographs >  Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14919
Item Title Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14919
Collection Title Overseas Weekly photographs
Publisher Overseas Weekly
Date Created January 18, 1969
Description Contact sheet containing 13 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - music groups (mil band). NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET: overs pazifik - jan. 18 - ID for contact shee B -- All are pictures of American Division musicians, part of the division band, who go to the Chu Lai Air Base passenger terminal every day at noon to play for the scores of Marines and GIs waiting for R&R flights and freedom flights home. The director is Sp5 Phil Heldon; the bass horn player in Frames 3-7 is Sp4 William Dew; the trombone player, frames 1-2, is Sp5 George Pempsell. Photographs from this contact sheet published in the Overseas Weekly (Vol. 24, No. 8) issued March 01, 1969, along with the article titled "Everyone is out to entertain the troops in 'Nam. Here are three of the more popular but lesser known groups." The spread of the article covers pages 12-13, but the photos from this sheet (second row two left most photos) are printed on page 13 with the caption "R&R Favorites in Saigon are these musicians from the Americal Division band, directed by Sp5 Phil Hedon (below), who play for GIs leaving on R&R."
Subject(s) Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Songs and music
Language(s) English
Format Still Image
Medium contact sheets
Record Number 2014c35.435
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