| I have been watching this thread for a while and have decided to add to it.
During my service in the U. S. Army I did a tour in Vietnam from June '69 to June'70. I was in an aviation unit at Phu Loi and was a crew chief/door gunner on Hueys and Chinooks.
On my off duty hours I used to run the camp's movie projector. I had to sign for said projector on a weekly basis from another unit at Ben Hoa airbase which is just outside of Saigon, a 20 mile trip.
This was a real pain as I had to physically take the projector with me, sign for it and take it back again. No mean feat as it was the size of a small suitcase and weighed a bunch. However this was alleviated by the fact that I had a whole day to enjoy all that Saigon had to offer!
During one of my trips I befriended an Army photographer and swapped with him an AK 47 for some 200 official U.S. Army photographs. Some of these are of Australians and I include them here.
I only saw Australians once when I was in Vietnam and that was in a bar at Ton Sun Nut. |