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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Monday, February 21, 2011
An Thoi POWs
Loading North Vietnamese POWs on C-130 at An Thoi on isolated island of Phu Quoc in the Gulf of Siam … west of South Vietnam and south of Cambodia. This was similar to other POW liberation missions we flew out of Con Son Island – 1973. Prisoners were flown north to a remote jungle airstrip near the DMZ for release. POWs are the ones with pajama-like outfits and white bandanas on their heads. Besides a POW camp, An Thoi was a base for South Vietnamese gunboats, and USN swift patrol boats.
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