ABBREVIATIONS OF SOURCES

Benavidez Guard File: Texas National Guard Records, Texas Military Department, Military Personnel Records, Austin, TX.

BMR: Official Military Personnel File of Roy P. Benavidez, Series: Official Military Personnel Files, 1912–1998, Record Group 319: Records of the Army Staff, 1903–2009, National Archives at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.

GWS Records: Records of the Great Western Sugar Company, Agricultural and Natural Resources Archive, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

LBJ: LBJ Presidential Library, Austin, TX.

Medal: Roy P. Benavidez, with John R. Craig, Medal of Honor: One Man’s Journey from Poverty and Prejudice (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 1995).

MOH Film: Medal of Honor Presentation to Master Sergeant Benavidez and President Reagan’s Remarks at the Pentagon and Oval Office Photo Op., February 24, 1981, Reagan Library, www.youtube.com/watch?v=le8YfYf5meQ, accessed December 19, 2019.

NSF-Cambodia: National Security File-Country File, Cambodia, Papers of Lyndon Baines Johnson President, 1963–1969, LBJ Presidential Library, Austin, TX.

NSF-Vietnam: National Security File-Country File, Vietnam, Papers of Lyndon Baines Johnson President, 1963–1969, LBJ Presidential Library, Austin, TX.

RBP: Roy P. Benavidez Papers, 1943–2007, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

Reagan Library: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.

Reagan MOH Photos: Roll #C00822–C00838, White House Photographic Office Collection, 1981, Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA.

Sanborn: Sanborn Maps Company, Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867–1970, ProQuest, Ann Arbor, MI.

Texas State Archives: Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Austin, TX.

Three Wars: Roy P. Benavidez, with Oscar Griffin, The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez (San Antonio, TX: Corona, 1986).