November 10, 2018, Mortar Attack

Greetings to all of you who are still following this blog!

Today, I ran across a  website that is related to some of my photos, posted previously.

It tells the more detailed story about a mortar attack that occurred in January, 1966, that resulted in the death of an Airman. I added the link to this blog as: "Mortar Attack, January, 1966".

I posted 3 photos that I took of the damaged USAF pick-up truck on June 30th, 2017, "Battle Damage".

Below is an aerial photo, I borrowed from that website, showing where the mortar strike and death occurred. I lived in the "H" shaped barracks, furthest to the right, across from the Petroleum, Oils, & Lubricants (POL) storage area. However, I was not there at the time of the attack, as I was working nights on the grave-yard shift (1900-0700 hrs.) in the main USAF hangar on the flight-line.

June 28, 2018, "The Donut Dollies"

Greetings!

Considerable time has passed since I last posted. Although I have no additional photographs to put up, I do have an interesting Web site that I'd like to mention to anyone who might be interested.

I was recently contacted by someone searching for information about one of the photos I used in my blog. It was not one of my own photos, but one that I'd found elsewhere on the Internet that provided for my introductory page, an aerial view of Danang Air Base very close to how I remembered it when I was there in 1965 and 1966. The watermark on the photo appears as: "Thang - Nguyen Xuan Arch - Collection".

If anyone has contact information for the Thang - Nguyen Xuan Arch collection, please let me know.

At any rate, the person who asked me about this photo is closely associated with a very interesting web-site! It is called the "Donut Dollies" and is dedicated to a very special group of young women who volunteered their time working for the Red Cross in some of the remotest locations of South Vietnam, from 1965-1972.

Check it out!

The Donut Dollies 

March 10th, 2018, Update

Greetings to everyone!

It has been a long time since I last posted to this blog.

I stated in a previous posting that I was going to do a final sweep through all of my Vietnam photos to see if I had left anything out. I recently completed that review. Alas, it appears that I have already posted all of the photos that are of decent enough quality to be displayed here.

Thank you for your interest and visits to this blog!