Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Digitally Visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Footnote.com has digitized the entire Viet Nam Memorial wall and made it free to view. The image was assembled from 6,301 images photographed by Peter Krogh and stitched by Darren Higgins. It is 400,000 pixels by 12,500 pixels.

The 58,320 names on the wall can be browsed by all, enlistment type, service branch, or hometown. You can chose to learn more about a name such as full name, rank, specialty, and hometown. Images and comments can be added. Military data is based on information supplied from The National Archives.

You will need to zoom the image several times before you can read any names. Because the image is so large it takes a few moments to refresh when you zoom, so be patient.

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