Stratovision
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Stratovision was an airborne television transmission relay system using aircraft flying at high altitudes. In 1945, the Glenn L. Martin Company and Westinghouse Electric Corporation originally propose
Westinghouse and Glenn L. Martin employees pose with B-29 Superfortress used in Stratovision tests. In rear row from left are Frank Gordon Mullins and C.E. Nobles, head of Stratovision for Westinghouse.
South Vietnam
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The Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as South Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated State of Vietnam withi
Stratovision
…United States. Although this was never implemented, the system has been used for domestic broadcasting in the United States, and by the U.S. military in South Vietnam and other countries. Because the broadcasting antenna for Stratovision is usually hung beneath the aircraft in flight, it naturally has a great command…
Affiche for the 1953 municipal election in Hanoi
Nearly one million refugees fled communist North Vietnam during the Great Migration.
President Diem welcomed by King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, Bangkok 1957.
President Diem and US Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald A. Quarles review the honor guard at the Pentagon, Virginia 1957.