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Aerial shot of Dong Tam |
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Another air shot of Dong Tam showing some the
MRF boats to the left of Dong Tam. |
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Lovely shot of the area behind our barracks in
DongTam, complete with rocket shelters, showers and the ever popular latrines. |
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Frontal of view of our beautiful
accommodations in Dong Tam. Actually they were not bad. At least they were dry! |
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Front road-side view complete with someone
hanging off the telephone pole........I just noticed that.....after 29 years! |
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105 heading down the highway outside of Dong
Tam. |
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This, ladies and gentleman, boys and girls is
an aerial photo of the "Cross Roads", the scene of many a shoot-out with the bad
guys and the place where many good American's paid a high price. Ugh, I hated to go to
this place. |
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You talk about flat, this place is it! I think
this is another shot of downtown Dong Tam |
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This is the main road from Dong Tam to Ben
Tre, I think. It's a road, or something close to it. And it's also the rainy season. Those
paddy's are full of water. Yummy! |
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Remember this scene? Roadside maintenance in
Dong Tam. Steel lined ditches to control water run-off during the monsoon season. |
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Another shot of the wayward dog we had. I
think his name was "Chickenman". Can you imagine just being a dog and then being
a dog in Vietnam? "Oh fer two!" |
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Shot from behind our barracks in Dong Tam. |
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How could we ever forget this place? What the
hell is it? I think it's a pre-Walmart or something close. |
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This is a picture out the back of our
barracks, chopper heading in the the command headquarters building. |
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This shot is somewhere outside of Dong Tam at
a busy traffic intersection. I really have no idea where this is! We were pulling road
guard here, or we were supposed to be......The sign says something about My Tho. |
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Well, here I am again. See the Alfred E.
Newman poster? My ears resembled his, so he was kinda my hero at the time. |
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Oh boy, the shit barrells and the trash cans.
What a site, or is that sight? |
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More of the locals. |
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Hey, good news! The missing is now found! This
is a picture of one Mr. Steve Staples, now living in Northern California. Steve found
himself on this page and sent me an e-mail. Man, did that make my day or what! Steve was
in fact an LT. with Military Intellegence. Welcome home, Steve, er, Sir! |
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Shot of the back of the mess hall. Actually
this place looked bad from both the front and the back. |
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This is our movie theater. |
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This is the RF/PF outpost near Dong Tam where
we heisted the puppy from. They RVN crew here was on a "dog diet"! |
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Phouc and Bob Stumph |
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Local kids |
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R to L, Melvin Pope, Durham, Fincannon, Lee
and Bob Stumph. |
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Melvin Pope. I think Pope got shot in the butt
and was sent home. |
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The guy on the far left with his hand at his
mouth is Sgt. Griffith, or Griffin, something like that. Don't know who the others are. I
think Joe Flynn is in this picture also. |
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Here are the boys getting ready for another
patrol. |
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How the hell did I survive this! Me as an RTO.
If you were here with me, you'll remember the bald headed women to the left of the tree?
Buku dinky-dau..... |
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The shower for the boys in the orderly room.
Seems to me I remember someone putting about 10 bags of Kool-Aid in the water tank just to piss off Top. It worked, too. hehehe |
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Me and Bobby Stumph. Bobby's now living in the
stateof New York and doing just fine!! |
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Top....but I don't know if it's before or
after the Kool-Aid shower...hehehe |
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Formation. That's Ralph Turner giving me the
"finger" in the background. |
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Just another road to guard. Looks like I-80 in PA. |
