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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Friday, March 25, 2011
Floating Village at Con Son
More comments later ... took photo though window from copilot's seat while our C-130 was in a 30 degree right turn getting in position to land at Con Son, South Vietnam - 1973. Con Son was a small island off the southern tip of Vietnam, and was noted for interment camps where NVA and Viet Cong POWs were detained. This was toward the end of US involvement in the war ... I think we were at Con Son to pick up a load of freed POWs whom we flew north to a remote airstrip near the DMZ where they deplaned and quickly disappeared into the jungle in less than a minute. Floating village pictured here sustained itself through fishing ... note the narrow, rickety docks leading out to fleet of sampans.
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