Dixon55.jpg178 viewsA beautiful building on the square in downtown Saigon. Originally a French opera house and also the seat of the South Vietnamese legislature (best info). Also, note in the right foreground the huge bronze sculpture that was a memorial to South Vietnamese soldiers. To the right of this shot was the beautiful French Caravelle Hotel.
Dixon9.jpgTo my rescue...177 viewsThe Chinook touches down at LZ Liz...thank goodness!
Dixon30.jpgHowitzer in place177 viewsGood pictorial on the 360-degree firing capability.
Dixon28.jpgClub Card176 viewsMy membership card at the NCO Open Mess Club at Camp Enari... that kinda reddish brown hue on the card is from... welll... you know what it's from! Wasn't EVERYTHING in Pleiku that color?
Dixon6.jpgMy Uniform173 viewsNote the 2/9th Arty unit crest on the epaulet.
Dixon3.jpg2/9th Arty Berets172 viewsHere...have a closer look!
Dixon5.jpgMy Uniform172 views4th Inf Div (Ivy) patch on right shoulder; 25th Inf Div (Tropic Lightning) on left shoulder. I was there for the "swap" of the 3rd Brigades between the Divisions.
Dixon12.jpgCamera cutups172 viewsWe had a great team of guys & we had fun too on occasion. Roman, was a real cut-up and was always doing something funny. Here he is making rabbit ears on Hunter (commo wire man from East St. Louis) and a sergeant– whose name I forget because he was from Baltimore and we always called him "B-More"! Tthis was taken near Duc Pho as we were preparing to go to the dreaded Bong Son area. Sgt. "B-More" (who insisted "don't call me sergeant!") was injured in a VC attack on a bunker and was shipped out afterward if I remember right. Roman went to another battery.
Dixon73.jpgKIA Charles "Bruce" McClurg?171 viewsI believe this MAY be a foggy shot I took of KIA Charles "Bruce" McClurg on the right. I can't remember the fellow's name on the left. They were both on KP duty this day at Duc Pho.
Dixon56.jpgUS Embassy - Saigon168 viewsA photo of the US Embassy in Saigon before the attacks. Notice how high the front wall is over the fellow walking. One wonders how the press depicted the embassy wall as so easy to climb!
Dixon63.jpgHooray - R&R Time168 viewsBankok R&R - those wonnnnderful Pan Am stewardesses. They always posted one or two at the door just inside the plane as you were leaving...and at least one at the end of the gangway stairs...smiling beguilingly in a skirt and heels. Sighhhhhhh!
LD-5.jpgHogan168 viewsOne of my Commo buddies, Hogan back at Camp Enari in Pleiku shortly before returning home 1968... note the clean, pressed jungle fatigues!
