Media Category: Viet Nam War #1

About the war for freedom for the Viet Nam people from dictatorship of communism.

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-05. Saigon 1967. This monument was made fun of by the Commies and much of the Western Press; maybe they were on the same side. This was a monument to Soldiers who fought and died in this conflict. Naturally the commies tore it down in no time flat.

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-04. Saigon 1967, a very typical street scene.

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-45. The Cua-Viet fuel farm 1967. It was mostly bladders. Once the commies done an extraordinary mine job on a LST which was beached in the camp and was well protected. They done a great job and got it any way, our biggest job there.

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-40. Cua-Viet Camp 1967, a LVT needs repair. We came up here often to repair the off-shore fuel line and we had one big job, an LST needed an emergency repair to close a planted mine explosion hole under their engine rooms.

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-39. Cat Lo 1971. My only photo, I reported here in Jan 1971 from HCU-1 in Subic. Here, I trained several groups of VN Navy divers in salvage for about two month. Than we manned the LCM-8 salvage boats and operated in the Mekong Delta, half US and half VN crews. My boat operated from […]

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-37. MeKong Delta 1973, this shot is from 1973 but in 1971 we flew to Rach Gia by Helo, to pic up our boat and relieve crew members. This is the Delta-no doubt!!! We took the boat than to the Song Ong Doc River and further to Ca Mau and did salvage work there.

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-36. On our way to Saigon from Cat Lo 1971, we saw these Thai troops. I was also gone to an Australasian Army hospital here, once, for a consultation.

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-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.

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-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’.

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-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.

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