-35. Cat Lo main gate; this pic is from a ‘Brown Water Navy’ web side. We had liberty here and I met my future wife here. My time here was from Jan 1971 to May with about 2 month of that in the Delta.
-34. Maily & Karl 1973 in Saigon with Maily, my bride to be. All the diver units, Frogs, EOD and us Salvage Divers had moved to Cat Lai, near Saigon. In Saigon we had ‘Liberty’.
-33. Traveling on LARC on Dong-Ha river 1967, down to the Cua Viet Camp. This is a LARC that replaced the WWII DUKW vehicle-craft. This area is just south of the DMZ, the line that divided North VN and South VN.
-32. In El Paso TX. Jan. 1972, studying the Viet Namese Lingo, Karl in his room. I graduated on top of the class, 42 students. I had left VN May 1971 because I had volunteered for the ‘Long Range Advisor Program’ and had 35 weeks of language training.
-28. Plei Ku 1966 in Central South Viet Nam. My 1st day in Viet Nam; I arrived with this type of aircraft, a C-130.The plane stopped here coming from Clark AFB on our way to Da Nang.
-22. Karl’s Viet Nam 1966-1973. I marked this map as to where I served or had been. I also indicated the 1972 Easter Offensive because my fiancé’s family was caught up in it. The fiancé’s family was from Loc Ninh and was under commie rule ever since Easter 1972.
