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From the Past, a Memory of Vietnam
Jan 16, 2019 11:29:55 #
Jan 16, 2019 11:31:20 #
Wes wrote:
Thank you for your service, defending out country. Nearly twenty years earlier, in Korea, I was selected to replace Lt. Remington of the Remington Arms family as PX officer. I persuaded the PX HG in Seoul to get me Japanese cameras for the troops. The only one available was the Samoca but we were all proud to send pictures back home.
And thank you for your service, as well.
Great picture, thanks for sharing it. More history--I love it.
Jan 16, 2019 11:32:02 #
Dannj wrote:
Wingpilot:
Well, you’re right: technically, it’s not a great photo. But the story it tells makes up for that. Thank you.👍
Well, you’re right: technically, it’s not a great photo. But the story it tells makes up for that. Thank you.👍
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Jan 16, 2019 11:32:29 #
Jan 16, 2019 11:34:26 #
Plieku69 wrote:
Bought my first camera there, a Petri FT at the PX in An Khe.
We had a lot of choices, didn't we? And the prices were right. My first tour, I wanted to get a Nikon, but as a WO-1 Warrant Officer, I couldn't afford it. The Commissioned Officers got the Nikons. My second tour, I already had a camera that I brought over with me, a Minolta SRT101, if I recall correctly.
Jan 16, 2019 11:35:01 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Nice one, and I'm glad you're still around to see it.
More -
Part 1: http://friedmanarchives.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-faces-of-vietnam-part-1.html
Part 2: http://friedmanarchives.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-faces-of-vietnam-part-2.html
More -
Part 1: http://friedmanarchives.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-faces-of-vietnam-part-1.html
Part 2: http://friedmanarchives.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-faces-of-vietnam-part-2.html
Thanks, Jerry, me too.
Jan 16, 2019 11:35:24 #
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Jan 16, 2019 11:37:22 #
I bet you were amazed!!! I have been there several times since 2006. Was trying to do business there but they are still a little slow in government circles. My lawyer in HCM was cop and educated in UC Davis. Another friend was from Ca Mau. Her dad was SVN naval captain so went thru re-education--not good but he now lives in Sacramento. My friend's family did not get to US embassy in time to evacuate so she has many escape attempt stories. She finally got to NYC in 2005. But her mom made the most of it and now her brothers run the largest building supply company in the delta which she started. My friend speculated on about 3 or 4 acres on Phu Quoc (north side facing Cambodia) beach front about 10 years ago...she is back in California.
Jan 16, 2019 11:38:17 #
Tommy II wrote:
I was a grunt, and believe me, I can still remember acts of generosity like this.
I mean, how often does the bar come to you? Glad to have been of service. You guys had a hard job to do, so as far as I was concerned, I was all for making things easier if I could, even if it was just delivering a few beers to a bunch of tired out, fed up grunts. It was the littel things that seemed to mean the most. Welcome back, and thanks for your service, brother.
Jan 16, 2019 11:38:32 #
Jan 16, 2019 11:40:50 #
nospambob wrote:
Nice, thanks for posting. I took thousands of slide photos but lost em all in the Tet raid. Rats. But I'm here to appreciate yours. Cool beans.
Thanks. I've got a bunch of slides somewhere. Too bad I need a projector to look at them. I have a slide cube projector, but it doesn't work. I suppose one of these days I'll get a slide copier and scan them all to digital media. I'd say then I could toss the slides, but I don't want to get rid of the originals. So sorry Charlie got your slides during Tet.
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Jan 16, 2019 11:42:45 #
I have a similar shot of me standing next to my Huey. My first good camera was a Topcon RE Super with a 1.4 55mm lens. It was $400.00 at a PX in Japan! A lot of money in those days. Still have it. Guess I need to see if it still works. I did notice some "growth" in one of my lens. Oh well, it is 52 years old, after all.
I copied about 700 slides I took aver there. Your shot came out very good.
I copied about 700 slides I took aver there. Your shot came out very good.
Jan 16, 2019 11:44:17 #
Jim-Pops wrote:
My most memorable flight in Vietnam.
Beer OH yea the beer run. Back in 1967 we were out of beer needed to fly out and get some. I was an aircraft engine repair Spec 4 at the time and they needed gunner for Huey trip, no one else available. The scariest lift off I ever had. We were over loaded but that was OK it was beer.
Happy you made it back.
Jim
Beer OH yea the beer run. Back in 1967 we were out of beer needed to fly out and get some. I was an aircraft engine repair Spec 4 at the time and they needed gunner for Huey trip, no one else available. The scariest lift off I ever had. We were over loaded but that was OK it was beer.
Happy you made it back.
Jim
Thanks, and back at ya. Yeah, some things were worth the risk. I flew Huey's my first tour, and my first operational flight in-country was a resupply mission to a unit somewhere out in the rice paddies. You want to see smiles, just take a look at the guys when several sheets of frosted chocoolate cake are unoladed!! Now that was a treat.
Jan 16, 2019 11:45:54 #
MT native wrote:
Thank you for your service in Vietnam. An unfortunate war for all that had to serve. I salute you.
Thank you. Yes, it was unfortunate, but then, they all are. It didn't take me long to figure out that I was there to serve the guys on the ground, not fight the enemy. At least not directly.
Jan 16, 2019 11:47:43 #
AzPicLady wrote:
If we had seen these types of images during the war instead of what the media put out, you guys would likely have received a very different welcome when you came home! Nice image.
Perhaps. Fortunately, when I got back, I just quietly went home, than on to my next assignment, with no fanfare or any of the many unfortunate encounters with protestors that so many guys endured.
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