Thursday, January 29, 2026


 Sign of the times for C-130 crew members. Pictured are a pair of ubiquitous, small ceramic "Saigon Elephants" which were a popular purchase item at various off-base vendors in Vietnam. We had the luxury of C-130 cargo space to haul sometimes dozens of these back home. Most of these elephants were 4-5 times larger than the ones pictured. Today I still have a few of these large elephants outside in my garden over 50 years after purchase. I must say that the cans of beer were as ubiquitous as these elephants.

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