Most viewed - Danny Yates
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Vietnam_Monument,_OK.jpgMonument in Oklahoma124 viewsBeautiful granite monument erected to Vietnam veterans. Photo contributed by Danny Yates.
This photo has been selected to grace the Homepage of The Mighty Ninth. It is also very fitting that it resides in Oklahoma, the home of the Cannoncockers College.
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DY-32b.JPGThen & Now: the search for Base Camp123 viewsI went on Google Earth, with the photo tab on, and found this screen shot of Engineer Hill. I highlighted one of the picture icons so you can see the 3rd Brigade, 25th Inf Div label. All of the photos submitted at this location are labeled that way.
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DY-Nam.jpgBack in Nam again123 viewsDanny is walking along the road in the former LZ Uplift area and is picking up a piece of a sandbag in the roadway.
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DY-31b.JPGThen and Now121 viewsShortly before we left, my wife discovered an old map I
had ordered many years ago. On the map (see above) the
airstrip that was clearly marked next to the highway. That runway was just
across the road from my tent. Notice the notch in tea plantation below the airstrip.
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Yates.JPGModern Day Danny120 viewsModern-Day Danny attending our historic 2/9th Reunion at Ft Sill, OK in May-June 2013.
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IMGA1.jpgYep...I made it home120 viewsArrived at Travis AFB, ending my luxurious tour of Vietnam. When you enlarge this photo, you will see the tail number of the C-141 that flew me home.
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DY-32e.JPGThen & Now: the search for Base Camp119 viewsOur guide pointed out this road leading into our base camp area. Something about that looked awfully familiar. I've attached the picture along with a Google Earth screen print, marked with an "x" to show where the picture was taken. So close, and yet so far.
According to my letters home, base camp moved to an area south of Pleiku, probably Enari, in May of 1967.
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IMG_6137.jpgFound my Freedom Bird!119 viewsWith a lot of help from an ex-C-141 pilot, I was able to track down and
reunite with the plane that brought me home from Vietnam. I just happened
to have one picture of me with the plane, and I was able to use the tail
number to find my plane.
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DY-30a.jpgThen and Now117 viewsThe old Shell station is now a Petrolimex station.
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DY-Nam2.jpgBack in Nam again117 viewsDanny Yates walking down a trail near the former LZ Uplift.
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DY-Nam3.jpgDown the trail in Nam117 viewsDanny Yates walking with his son down one of the roads at the old LZ Uplift.
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IMG_3882.jpgFound my Freedom Bird!117 viewsThankfully, I didn't have to use the can. It beats a 55-gallon drum, though. Maybe the dogs used this one.
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