The gun crew: Sommer,
Dandrea, Salazar and Allen
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The bunker at LZ
Virginia
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One of the 81mm
mortar pits
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LZ Virginia on a
stormy day
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A sandbag bunker
at LZ Virginia
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Rodriguez carrying a
sandbag for the bunker
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A Huey helicopter
heading for home base
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Rain clouds menace a
Chinook
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Salazar fills in as RTO
Hancock is behind him
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Loaded down with mortar
ammo for the next patrol
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Pipe tobacco and cigarettes
were provided free to the troops
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Salazar smoking his
pipe at LZ Bartlett
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Salazar testing a
.45 automatic
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Salazar testing a
grenade launcher
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Posing at LZ Bartlett
with .45 automatic
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The beach stands at
Phan Thiet sold Cokes
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Former VC who surrendered
are on work assignments
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One of the artillery
emplacements at LZ Bartlett
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Platson menacing Allen with
an unloaded grenade launcher
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Salazar preparing to
fire the mortar
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Platson and Salazar
examining a grenade launcher
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Fresh water provided in Lister
bags and 250 gallon bladders
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Garza reading?
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Salazar at LZ Bartlett
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A C-130 arriving at
Phan Thiet
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View of the countryside
from LZ Bartlett
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LZ Bartlett was on a
mountaintop
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The fish market at
Phan Thiet
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Downtown commerce
at Phan Thiet
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A funeral procession passing
a Phan Thiet movie house
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Vietnamese girls dressed
in traditional Ao Dai
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Funeral procession on
the streets of Phan Thiet
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Funeral procession in
Phan Thiet
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A nuoc mam processing
plant
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Downtown Phan Thiet
activity
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Salazar standing in front
of theater
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The cemetery outside of
Phan Thiet
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Allen walking down the
street along the river
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My M-16 ready to go
at all times
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Apparently a home of well-to-do Vietnamese in Phan Thiet
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A gang of Vietnamese
kids posing in Phan Thiet
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Ox cart on the streets
of Phan Thiet
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A street in downtown
Phan Thiet
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Downtown Phan Thiet
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The river at Phan Thiet
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The river at Phan Thiet
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Contemplating another
day of fishing
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