Pleiku_GI_Bartering.JPGPleiku series88 viewsPlieku GI bartering: Some GI's interacting with the Vietnamese children. Notice the one young girl holding something she wants to sell.
{Webmaster's Note: Many American-made items wound up in the local black markets. It was always amazing since there were certainly no legitimate means of distribution.}
Pleiku_Children.JPGPleiku series88 viewsTypical Vietnamese children playing with downed tree branches.
RW-16.JPGPith helmet?87 viewsDowntown Pleiku: young girl wears a pith helmet instead of the more common conical hat (non la).
RW-54.JPGBan Me Thout87 viewsIt is a nice bungalow to be out in the middle of nowhere. Polynesian-style roof on a house in Ban Me Thout. Probably didn't make the national register. I vaguely remember that it was a hut booby-trapped with a trip wire.
Pleiku_Montagnard_(2).JPGPleiku series87 viewsHeading to town on his ox-drawn cart. Pleiku was still very primitive in the 60s.
RW-15.JPGDowntown Pleiku86 viewsThis place never made it as a tourist destination.
Pleiku_Children_(2).JPGPleiku series85 viewsMust be friends of the boy in the previous photo in the barbed wire playing or going to market. This one has a basket.
Pleiku_Pedicab.JPGPleiku series84 viewsPlieku Pedicab: Never had the chance to ride in one.
Christmas_Pleiku_12-66.jpgPleiku series82 viewsThis was a Christmas party and dinner for kids from a local orphanage. Too bad this didn't make the news back home. It was more sensational news to sell the troops as "baby killers".
Pleiku_Catholic_Shrine.JPGPleiku series81 viewsThe shrine is what prompted me to ask about the church. It had several religious statues on it
Pleiku_Beer_Joint.JPGPleiku series80 viewsBeer Joint in Pleiku. The bar is named "Play Boys". The American popularity of Playboy magazine spread around the world obviously.
Pleiku_Montagnard.JPGPleiku series80 viewsPleiku Montagnard: Carrying his wares to sell at the market.
{Montagnards were indigenous to the mountainous areas of Vietnam; they were a very friendly people and somehow managed to stay out of the entanglements with the VC and NVA. The Vietnamese people weren't so lucky.}
