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Dixon56.jpgUS Embassy - Saigon170 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!
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TS-26.JPGA Well-Known Detail170 views"Well, someone has to do it!". The most famous-infamous detail of all Vietnam....the "shit-burning" detail. Larry Kettner does the honors.
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Dixon63.jpgHooray - R&R Time170 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!
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JCook15.jpgLizard on deck170 viewsLizard found at LZ 270. Musta got into our supply of C-rations.
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2010-Pitts10.JPGWatching the show170 viewsTom Roman, Byron Kurtgis, wife Lisa, and Ernest Correia observe Dave Collins serving as master of ceremonies.
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WS-42.JPGThe Office169 viewsThe Top Kick stands outside his office. He is Top Halderman - 1970.
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Dixon3a.jpgThe "cunt cap"169 viewsWe used to call these "cunt caps". Now, that always sounded odd and gross to me...but would you believe I made it almost all the way through basic before I realized that was NOT the correct name for the silly things?
The military nomenclature was "Overseas Cap".
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Bert,Dean,Ed.jpgCocktail Party169 viewsDave Collins and Jim Cooke of C-1-35 coordinated with Bert Landau (left) for a special reception combining the grunts with the redlegs in Mandalay-4 room of the hotel. Gary Dean Springer and Ed Thomas are center & right of the photo.
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Dixon38.jpg"Short-Timer"169 viewsWhat does a "short-timer" look like? Well, here is your big clue. The steel pot was damaged by a mortar round. The white picket fence led to the Marines tent area. One of the Marines saved my neck when we were overrun by the VC with satchel charges in our commo area.
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Dixon35.jpgThe Motor Man169 viewsA very memorable character at right; his name was either Rogers or Richards. Fellow at left is UNK. The guy really loved WOMEN and met a few courtesy of the local mama-san. He said that Asia was heaven and he had no plans to return to the US. There were a lot of guys like that over there.
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Sp-4_Farley.jpgThat's Me169 viewsSp4 Farley proves he served with the 2/9th Arty in Vietnam. Here's his photo.
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2-9th_Hawaii.jpgOur Guys169 viewsMost of the men here in this photo preceded us to the 2/9th Arty in Vietnam. 1SG Richard Bates was the "Top Kick".
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