Christmas_Pleiku_12-66.jpgPleiku series107 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".
Pleiku_Montagnard_(2).JPGPleiku series107 viewsHeading to town on his ox-drawn cart. Pleiku was still very primitive in the 60s.
RW-39.JPGCave Smoke Break106 viewsSgt Barrington taking a smoke break after enjoying a hot meal with the 1/14th soldiers.
RW-37.JPGChecking out the caves106 viewsSurveyor Chuck Peart (foreground) hanging out with some of the soldiers of the 1/14th Inf Regiment. We were called in after they found the caves.
Pleiku_Children_(2).JPGPleiku series106 viewsMust be friends of the boy in the previous photo in the barbed wire playing or going to market. This one has a basket.
Pleiku_Pedicab.JPGPleiku series105 viewsPlieku Pedicab: Never had the chance to ride in one.
Dixie_Cups_Show.JPGPleiku series104 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 series104 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 series104 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.}
French_Ambush.JPGSite of the historic ambush103 viewsHistory tells us that this is where the French forces were ambushed at the Mang Yang Pass on Hwy 19.
Pleiku_Montagnard.JPGPleiku series103 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.}
