Dixon55.jpg167 viewsA beautiful building on the square in downtown Saigon. Originally a French opera house and also the seat of the South Vietnamese legislature (best info). Also, note in the right foreground the huge bronze sculpture that was a memorial to South Vietnamese soldiers. To the right of this shot was the beautiful French Caravelle Hotel.
Dixon5.jpgMy Uniform164 views4th Inf Div (Ivy) patch on right shoulder; 25th Inf Div (Tropic Lightning) on left shoulder. I was there for the "swap" of the 3rd Brigades between the Divisions.
Dixon6.jpgMy Uniform164 viewsNote the 2/9th Arty unit crest on the epaulet.
Dixon9.jpgTo my rescue...164 viewsThe Chinook touches down at LZ Liz...thank goodness!
Dixon30.jpgHowitzer in place163 viewsGood pictorial on the 360-degree firing capability.
Dixon73.jpgKIA Charles "Bruce" McClurg?162 viewsI believe this MAY be a foggy shot I took of KIA Charles "Bruce" McClurg on the right. I can't remember the fellow's name on the left. They were both on KP duty this day at Duc Pho.
Dixon28.jpgClub Card161 viewsMy membership card at the NCO Open Mess Club at Camp Enari... that kinda reddish brown hue on the card is from... welll... you know what it's from! Wasn't EVERYTHING in Pleiku that color?
Dixon3.jpg2/9th Arty Berets160 viewsHere...have a closer look!
Dixon35.jpgThe Motor Man159 viewsA very memorable character at right; his name was either Rogers or Richards. Fellow at left is UNK. The guy really loved WOMEN and met a few courtesy of the local mama-san. He said that Asia was heaven and he had no plans to return to the US. There were a lot of guys like that over there.
Dixon56.jpgUS Embassy - Saigon158 viewsA photo of the US Embassy in Saigon before the attacks. Notice how high the front wall is over the fellow walking. One wonders how the press depicted the embassy wall as so easy to climb!
LD-5.jpgHogan158 viewsOne of my Commo buddies, Hogan back at Camp Enari in Pleiku shortly before returning home 1968... note the clean, pressed jungle fatigues!
Dixon12.jpgCamera cutups156 viewsWe had a great team of guys & we had fun too on occasion. Roman, was a real cut-up and was always doing something funny. Here he is making rabbit ears on Hunter (commo wire man from East St. Louis) and a sergeant– whose name I forget because he was from Baltimore and we always called him "B-More"! Tthis was taken near Duc Pho as we were preparing to go to the dreaded Bong Son area. Sgt. "B-More" (who insisted "don't call me sergeant!") was injured in a VC attack on a bunker and was shipped out afterward if I remember right. Roman went to another battery.
