Personal photos/text taken in/out of Vietnam combat zone from perspective of copilot on USAF C-130 345th Tactical Airlift Crew. Not just about the war, but also about the people/places of the region during 1972. This is where I got my first Nikon film SLR which turned into lifelong passion albeit now Canon digital SLR. The photos are recent digital scans from old 35mm slides wasting away in hot/cold attic for 40 years. Extensive Photoshop editing has been used to make them somewhat presentable.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Hanoi school boys
Photo taken out window of taxiing C-130 on historic flight into Gia Lam Airport, Hanoi, North Vietnam in 1973 … shortly after ceasefire. Pictured is large group of young boys along with two or three male adults (teachers?). Guessing that these were children attending school at the thatched roof building in photo, and they had come out to see unfamiliar US aircraft. Not long before this, intense US bombing and North Vietnam defense thereof was occurring in this Hanoi area. Seems odd that there would be a school (if in fact this is what we saw) in such close proximity to an obvious military target. Many in this group had raised arms; could not tell for sure if it was friendly waving, or angry fist pumping toward us … I suspect the latter.
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