Pleiku_Montagnard_(2).JPGPleiku series129 viewsHeading to town on his ox-drawn cart. Pleiku was still very primitive in the 60s.
Gun_Ship_2.JPGLZ Uplift128 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_Children_(2).JPGPleiku series128 viewsMust be friends of the boy in the previous photo in the barbed wire playing or going to market. This one has a basket.
RW-Base4.jpgBase Camp127 viewsHere is our Mens Room, complete with shitter and piss tube.
Pleiku_GI_Bartering.JPGPleiku series127 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.}
Boy_Scout_Camp.jpgPleiku series125 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 series125 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.}
Christmas_Pleiku_12-66.jpgPleiku series125 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".
Dixie_Cups_Show.JPGPleiku series124 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.}
Pleiku_Montagnard.JPGPleiku series124 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.}
RW-34.JPGLZ Uplift123 viewsCamping at LZ Uplift. Bubble helo surrounded by sandbag parapet.
