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Pleiku_Children.JPGPleiku series130 viewsTypical Vietnamese children playing with downed tree branches.

RW-15.JPGDowntown Pleiku129 viewsThis place never made it as a tourist destination.

Gun_Ship_2.JPGLZ Uplift129 viewsThe Chinook workhorse was armed with a high rate of firing capacity. It was know as "Guns A-Go-Go. Here is a look inside.

Pleiku_GI_Bartering.JPGPleiku series128 viewsPlieku GI bartering: Some GI's interacting with the Vietnamese children. Notice the one young girl holding something she wants to sell.

{Webmaster's Note: Many American-made items wound up in the local black markets. It was always amazing since there were certainly no legitimate means of distribution.}

RW-Base4.jpgBase Camp127 viewsHere is our Mens Room, complete with shitter and piss tube.

Dixie_Cups_Show.JPGPleiku series127 viewsThe "Dixie Cups" Show: Famous for their hit song "Going To The Chapel". The one USO show I did get to see. Was at the NCO Training school at Enari and missed the Bob Hope Show.

{Webmaster's Note: The Dixie Cups were three students at the University of New Orleans in the 1960s. They recorded the song and made it big with that one number.}

Boy_Scout_Camp.jpgPleiku series127 viewsFrom what I can determine, this was a Scout Jamboree. There were what looked like several different troop flags and numbers.

Pleiku_School_Girls.JPGPleiku series127 viewsPleiku School Girls: Note the uniforms. The school was next to the church so I assume it was a church run school.

{Webmaster's Note: In the 60s and many years prior, Catholic churches were part of the US private (religious) school system and staffed by clergy and nuns. The Catholic school system today is a fraction of what it used to be.}

Pleiku_Montagnard.JPGPleiku series127 viewsPleiku Montagnard: Carrying his wares to sell at the market.

{Montagnards were indigenous to the mountainous areas of Vietnam; they were a very friendly people and somehow managed to stay out of the entanglements with the VC and NVA. The Vietnamese people weren't so lucky.}

Christmas_Pleiku_12-66.jpgPleiku series127 viewsThis was a Christmas party and dinner for kids from a local orphanage. Too bad this didn't make the news back home. It was more sensational news to sell the troops as "baby killers".

RW-6.JPGThe Mighty Ninth goes by sea125 viewsAlternate Thoughts: Some components of the 2/9th may have moved from LZ Uplift to Bronco Beach via LST while others went to Duc Pho via convoy. Qui Nhon is mostly landlocked. The men pictured are walking the deck of the LST.

French_Ambush.JPGSite of the historic ambush125 viewsHistory tells us that this is where the French forces were ambushed at the Mang Yang Pass on Hwy 19.

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The Mighty Ninth

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