pictures of my tour of duty in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970

1. Lawrence C. Marsh United States Army Censored: dead or injured persons and other unpleasant scenes removed.

2. View from Command Headquarters Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam

3. Command Headquarters on hill overlooking Cam Ranh Bay American, Vietnamese, and Korean flags fly over Command Headquarters.

4. Sea-Land container ship delivering more ammo to Cam Ranh port facility Trained dolphins were used to assist in detecting enemy sappers (frogmen) in the bay.

5. A closer view of the Sea-Land port facility

6. Adjutant General’s Command HQ

7. Adjutant General’s Office

8. Armed with combat issue typewriter

9. Reading letters from home

10. Christmas presents have arrived

11. Working with secret documents I had to obtain a “secret clearance” for my job. The FBI checked out my past.

12. Statistics from military intelligence

13. Soldier ready for action.

14. Painting the floor Army issue gray

15. Earning the big bucks!!!

16. Preparing for the 1970 Tet Offensive I went to the local labor market to hire these Vietnamese to build this bunker.

17. Filling bunker walls with sand Incoming rockets were very inaccurate but highly deadly

18. Army troops live in hootches

19. Nearest hootch was my hootch

20. Hootch got very hot in summer

21. Mama-san does GI’s laundry

22. Not your typical Laundromat

23. Keeping an eye on the neighborhood

24. Woman in yellow is soaking wet

25. Jeeps at Military Police Station

26. I’ll just borrow one of their jeeps

27. Leaving the Military Police Station

28. Vietnamese children at checkpoint

29. Trucks loading potable water.

30. Taking a break in the grass

31. LARC travels on land or water.

32. Plane landing near My Ca Bridge

33. fire engine heading out in a hurry

34. Fire engine at brush fire near airport

35. New airport tower at Tan Son Nhut

36. Camp Alpha

37. ARVN Officers at Tan Son Nhut

38. ARVN MP’s on the move ARVN is acronym for Army of the Republic of Vietnam

39. On the road to Tan Son Nhut Airport ARVN MP’s search a lambretta

40. My Ca Bridge

41. Faster than a speeding bullock

42. Armored personnel carriers APC’s on the move towards the battle

43. civilians leaving battle area

44. downtown Nha Trang

45. lambrettas wait for MP’s clearance Travel on this road is restricted to only two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening.

46. Commercial bus to My Quang

47. Civilian gasoline delivery truck

48. Esso gas station in Nha Trang

49. civilian awaits afternoon rain

50. Helipad at Tan Son Nhut airbase Playboy Club is behind the helipad. PX is in the front.

51. Flying Tiger “freedom bird” Chartered commercial jets move American troops into and out of The Republic of Vietnam

52. unidentified truck

53. Women approaching security checkpoint on mainland side of Cam Ranh peninsula.

54. Convoy of Korean Army Troops

55. Commanding General’s “White House”

56. Vietnamese children checking me out

57. Vietnamese woman at Cam Ranh

58. Pagoda museum at Air Force base

59. Vietnamese Navy’s small airport Ocean liner at old French headquarters run by Vietnamese Navy.

60. C-130 awaiting takeoff at Cam Ranh Normally carries cargo so troops are strapped to the walls.

61. Post Exchange (PX) and ice cream (soft serve) truck

62. minature golf course at Cam Ranh

63. Cam Ranh Library 10,000 hard bound books.

64. Catching up on my reading. I was supposed to teach principles of economics but the textbooks didn’t arrive in time.

65. Movie Theater The guys from the trucking company next door sometimes threw in tear gas grenades during the movie.

66. The End