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.