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Vietnam War: statistical analysis and evaluation projects

 Collection
Identifier: 4406

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Documentation for various automated systems designed to provide data about the war in Vietnam. Systems include Project Corona Harvest to evaluate the effectiveness of airpower in Southeast Asia; Hamlet Evaluation System (HES), a reporting system designed to gather data on the progress of the rural pacification effort; SEAPRS (Southeast Asia Province file), designed to facilitate analysis of friendly and enemy military and pacification activity at the province level; PAAS (Pacification Attitude Analysis System), an automated system to provide a means of processing and reporting the results of surveys to determine the attitudes of the Vietnamese people toward pacification, the war, and political, social, and economic development; SEER (System for Evaluating the Effectiveness of RVNAF), designed to provide quantified evaluations of Vietnamese armed forces unit combat effectiveness in performance of assigned missions; AIRSUM (Air Summary Data Base), an historical record of all offensive air activity in Southeast Asia from 1965 to 1972; and Project Corona Harvest, an Air Force project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of air power in Southeast Asia from 1954.

Documentation was compiled by Prince as part of an Analysis of Vietnamization project, conducted by the Dept. of Applied Science and Technology, Bendix Aerospace Systems Division, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and completed in 1973.

Dates

  • 1968-1972.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

.7 cubic feet. (.7 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Documentation for various automated systems designed to provide data about the war in Vietnam.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Project Corona Harvest
Box 1
Series II. HES 70
Box 1
Series III. SEAPRS
Box 1
Series IV. PAAS
Box 1
Series V. SEER
Box 1
Series VI. AIRSUM
Boxes 1 and 2

RELATED MATERIAL

Additional pamphlets and reports by William G. Prince are housed in the Echols Collection, Kroch Library, Cornell University.

Physical Description

Manuals, reports, questionnaires, correspondence, and other documents.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
E. Engst
Date completed:
October 1989
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, January 2002
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by E. Engst
Date
January 2002
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
ENG

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)