The images below were made in 1969 and 1970 while I was serving in the U.S. Army. My stock photo collection contains approximately 1,200 images from that location and time. For a longer verbal description of the range of subjects available from that time, click here.
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696224 Bob Hope and singer/actress Connie Stevens entertain troops at Camp Eagle, near Hue, South Vietnam, during the 1969 Christmas season. | |
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696146 The DMZ: A large North Vietnamese flag, surrounded by bomb and shell craters, marks the beginning of North Vietnam. | |
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700114 View over the surrounding jungle from a helicopter patrol around Phu Bai's Camp Hochmuth. Yes, that's my own M16 and my knee in the foreground. | |
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703584 Only smoldering ashes are left of a village south of DaNang following a night-time VC attack. | |
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703578 The bodies of two young VC soldiers still lie in a roadside ditch hours after they were killed in a night-time attack on a village south of DaNang. (See preceding image. Please note content!) | |
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703616 A South Vietnamese youth tends to his Water Buffalo and his family's rice paddies. The scene is south of DaNang, off Vietnamese highway 1. | |
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700350 Cultural contrasts: In downtown DaNang, a Vietnamese woman carries her belongings on a bamboo pole while US troops roar by in a two and a half ton truck. (This is my favorite photo from my time in Vietnam.) | |
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700330 U.S. Air Force "Jolly Green Giant" helicopter returning to DaNang at dusk amid storm clouds. These helicopters were heavily used in the rescue of downed American pilots. | |
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700229 (left) and 700228 (right) U.S. Marine Corps combat artists at work, Da Nang Press Center, Da Nang, Vietnam, 1970. These marines went out into the field with Marine Corps units, where they make sketches and photographs. Later, back at their base, these images were turned into paintings that were shipped back to U.S. facilities, including the Pentagon. | |
The restoration of the railroad line between Saigon and Hanoi has been featured in magazines and on a variety of television programs recently. The current through train operates under the name "Unification Express." I traveled on a segment of this line between DaNang and Hue in early 1970, when the line operated with a combination new US-built diesel locomotives and other rolling stock dating back to the French colonial era. To view thumbnail images from this trip, click here.
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700025 Life wasn't always completely serious in Vietnam. This gag photo of our Army public relations unit was made at Camp Hochmuth, Phu Bai, Vietnam, in early 1970, shortly before our unit moved to DaNang. |
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