Vietnam War Diaries
This archive began as a personal project to preserve accounts that would otherwise be lost to time. The Vietnam War produced an enormous volume of official records, but the human stories — scrawled in notebooks, passed down through families, or locked in memory — are a different kind of history entirely.
The goal of this archive is not to relitigate the politics of the war, but to honor the individuals caught within it. Vietnamese fighters, civilians, and their communities are at the center of this collection — voices that have often been marginalised in Western accounts of the conflict.What We Collect
This archive collects personal diaries, letters, oral history transcriptions, tactical documents, and firsthand accounts from all sides of the conflict. Each entry is reviewed for historical plausibility before being added to the archive.
How to Contribute
If you have a family diary, photograph, letter, or account that relates to the Vietnam War era, we welcome submissions. All contributions are credited to their source and handled with care and respect for the individuals named within them.
A Note on Language & Perspective
Vietnamese names and place names are rendered as accurately as possible, including diacritical marks. Where accounts have been translated from Vietnamese, the translation method and any known limitations are noted alongside the entry.
"History is not just the events that happened — it is the people who lived them, and what they chose to remember."
— James Weebe