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Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14536
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Collection StructureOverseas Weekly photographs > Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14536
Item Title Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14536
Publisher Overseas Weekly
Date CreatedSeptember 28, 1968
Description

Contact sheet containing 18 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - Alvin Pearson (courts) not printed - AF Sgt. Bob Flack - Sept/28/68 - wild pictures on airport (Oct/ 21 / '68).  NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET:  14536a - Sept. 09, '68 - Pearson Court - 3-4: a couple of GIs squat at the chopper strip at Cu Chi.  5:  "Lake Charley" chain of bomb craters formed by B-52 strikes near Cu Chi in Iron Triangle area.  6-9:  Alvin Pearson mugs, court martial story in Saturday package.  10-11:  Odd shots at Lai Khe International Airport.  12: How to move an outhouse, see following.  13-14: AF Sgt Bob Flack, 20 year old Illini currently station at " Lai Khe International Airport," is, among other things a heavy duty forklift operator, but his buddies up country are calling him "The Woodchopper."  He earned the name recently while forking a new airport men's room into place.  Lai Khe camp is set in a one time rubber plantation, the heavy duty machine is pretty big, and rubber three (foreground) got in the way.  The forklift knocked down tree.  14536b -caption sheet 2: frames:  15:  Waiting for a plane at Lai Khe (left to right) Pvt Marion D. Wiles.  20: 1st "Big Red One" Inf.  Div. artilleryman, San Franciscan waiting to go to Bangkok on R&R, catches a snooze.  Kibitzing are Pvt Bob Conley, 21 of Des Moines and 2/2 of Big Red One's mechanized infantry, who is waiting for a friend to arrive from up-country, and Sp4 Dan Schraeger, also 21, from Chicago and waiting for a ride to the other division base camp at Di An. Schraeger is a support type - 16: "Who believes in signs?" A couple of brews on a hot Lai Khe afternoon, Sept. 5, 1968 - all the rest using up the roll on the chopper ride home.

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Record Number2014c35.312
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