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Collection Structure Overseas Weekly photographs >  Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14822
Item Title Overseas Weekly Contact Sheet 14822
Collection Title Overseas Weekly photographs
Publisher Overseas Weekly
Date Created December 06, 1968
Description Contact sheet containing 21 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - camps - Sneaky Forces - 3C. NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET: Sneaky forces - Engineers building a bunker-home for CIDG forces and families on perimeter of camp - four troops or one family will occupy finished bunker homes - (3) Remains of camp building that fell down during mortar/rocket attack - (4-7) VNAF A-1 fighter bomber giving air support to CIDG-SF patrol from camp - contact was made about 500 meters finto the woods from the camp - (8-9) Captured enemy weapons are crated to be taken back to C-team for examination (for intelligence) and disposal (handed out to general who want to take home a war trophy) - (10) Typical home of SF A-team people - sandbags and dirt-filled rocket crates roofed over with swiped Air Force cargo pallets covered with more sandbags - it'll take most anything but a direct hit - (11-12) The CIDG part of camp with dependent Vietnamese women doing something or other - (13) The perimeter with foundations of blowed-away buildings in foreground - (14) More perimeter with muddy road and water holes in foreground. It rains all the goddam time at this particular camp - also is cold - Your intrepid reporter has mild double pneumonia as a result of this trip - (15) A couple of guys with guns - CIDG people - (these goddam people refuse to look natural. They always gotta strike a pose whenever they see a camera) - (16) This pile of garbage in the foreground used to be the US team house until a fragment from a mortar hit an incendiary grenade inside it and burned it down - replacement is being built in background right by engineers - (17-18) Sign telling what place this is - sign ["fuck communism"] indicating feelings toward Marx's brainchild (sign also contains many bullet holes from Clyde) - (19) Another typical home/office building for US people in camp - rocket boxes and sandbags make a good house - (20) Mortar fire - mortarmen duck as they drop counter-mortar fire on charlie around 200 meters out in the woods - (21) One of the claymores surrounding the US camp - you don't wanna stand behind this baby when they use it and definitely shouldn't be in front of it (looks harmless, don't it??).
Subject(s) Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Battlefields
Language(s) English
Format Still Image
Medium contact sheets
Record Number 2014c35.395
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