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Zg101. (-00a & 00b) Images. Maps for this story about an Olongapo Bypass Road.

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Zg100. (-00) Image. The new bridge over the Matain River, it only could serve the purpose of having an Olongapo Bypass Road, I speculate.

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-10. July 1973, in Saigon on leave, landing at the airport. We, the US Military, already had left. I was there to help with the fiancé visa for my bride.

-09. Saigon 1967.The German hospital ship started out in Saigon and moved to Da Nang in 1968. I had entered the USA only in 1959 and so I naturally had to have a look at the German contribution to the war. Later I helped salvaging a WWII wrecked ship in Da Nang for the Helgoland […]

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-06. An-Loc was surrounded by the North Vietnamese during the 1972 Easter offensive. An loc is about 80 km north of Saigon. This is a captured North Viet Namese tank. When I returned to VN for a 3rd time the news of relieving An Loc and recapturing Quang Tri dominated the news and it was […]

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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 […]